Sunday

Festival + Cliffs + Water = Not good for the youth population of Poland


So yesterday we went to the lake, yay! Well actually its a quarry with very steep cliffs surrounding the water and only one spot that is low down where you can swim from. The reason we went there was because there was meant to be a free festival on from 2pm-2am with a line up of bands and everything. It seemed like the best idea because the sound would travel across the water so where ever you were around the quarry, you could hear it.

Got there at 2pm, no bands. But the weather was so nice and we'd brought lots of cold apple ciders, fresh fruit and BBQ food to eat so we were content. So for the next 4 hours all we did was lie in the sun, eat and drink. It was awesome. The spot we nabbed was the best spot by far. It was on the highest hill so there was a warm breeze to keep us from getting to hot. We could see the entire view of Krakow from here and the view of the whole lake in the opposite direction. We were on top of the world.
Later we found more of our friends and spent the time hopping around socialising and scavenging places at BBQ's to cook our sausages.

Around 6pm, everyone had decided to show up. This is when it felt like a real festival. There were girls wearing barely any clothes trying to climb up the giant hills in their high heels, Punk rockers pushing each other around the bumpy tracks in shopping carts. It was all taking a turn for the worse. And the weather had cracked up so we decided to leave. We were the only people walking out of that place at 8pm. There were massive herds of people walking in and as we were struggling against this tide of epolethen we realised that we'd made the right decision of leaving.

But we also realised something else. Yeah when you think 'let's have a festival in a place that's surrounded by cliffs and water', you realise its proabbyl not the safest idea but what you dont think about is when those ridges that everyone is perched on become way to crowded, how much more dangeous it becomes, and with the amount of people that were there when we left and the amount of people walking in, it was getting squishy.

I heard from friends that later that there were about 10 ambulances that arrived and police were wearing driving masks..... not good. But hey its Poland. I guess they do that here.



When we were leaving


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