I'm a simple emigrant and I recently attended my first-ever music festival

Let me tell you right away — I recommend it to everyone! Lallopalooza is a major music festival that is held in Chicago, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, and in just three cities outside the American continent: Berlin, Paris and Stockholm. In general, it looks like this: a huge venue, the Olympic Stadium, divided into different zones: stages, alternative performances, for example, a large pool with an acrobatic theater, a food court (we had it separately), a wine garden, a kids' zone and lots of partner sites scattered all over with activities, prize drawings, photo zones, etc. Food and drinks are sold everywhere as well, not only at the food court, but the selection of drinks is small, usually 6–10 varieties. At the festival entrance you receive a wristband with a chip, onto which you can load money through a personal account. Across the entire territory you can only pay with the wristband; no one accepts cash or regular cards. This is really great because you don't have to worry about losing cash or carrying around kilos of coins, but the downside for me is that you can check the balance only at the moment of purchase or in your personal account, but the purchase history is not saved, so it's easy not to notice how the money melted away. The balance, of course, after the festival can be requested back and within two weeks the money should be returned. Also a bit about finances: the price of an early bird ticket (that's when you buy it far in advance, not even knowing the lineup) is 139 euros; drinks and food are inexpensive, around 5–8 euros each, but portions are small. On the other hand, merch is quite expensive, for example, a festival hoodie 55 euros, a small plastic waist bag — 25. The tactic is also very simple: in the morning you gather photos from everywhere and various knick-knacks, you eat and drink, to live music by no-name performers, but sometimes it can happen that no one knows this artist, while you not only know them but also love them; that happened to us once. And in the second half of the day the concerts begin. Here there are two options: you stand all day in front of one stage so that when your favorite (most likely super popular) artist comes out, you are right in front of the stage, or you try to get to the maximum number of concerts, then you will be roughly in the middle at all of them, or as luck will have it. We chose the second tactic. And finally about the emotions. Guys, it's really cool! Two days of endless fun, tired feet, face and clothes dirty, like in childhood after a whole day outside, everyone happy, the atmosphere of friendship and fun. The opportunity to discover different cool artists; for example, Kraftklub was a revelation for me — their show was the most powerful, and I even touched the lead singer for two seconds :) In general, after moving to Europe, I decided not to go to concerts, but to use that money to go to festivals and cut loose there for the whole year. I won't even pose a question at the end of the post, and I'll give the answer right away: everyone should experience a music festival at least once! #German_trips #holidays