heineken open'er 2009

well, the festival is over and paulia has left us :( john and i leave poland tomorrow evening. as i mentioned, we came here to see paulina and for the heineken open'er festival. this is polands largest festival of the year. friday night there was an estimated 60,000 people, over the weekend there must have been over 100,000 people. it was insanity!!! europeans know how to throw summer music festivals. the four day event was incredible. the line up wasn't that impressive, but none the less we had a lot of fun. we saw moby, pendulum, duffy, basement jaxx, lily allen, placebo, kings of leon, faith no more, and prodigy to name a few. from where we were staying in sopot we took the tram to gydania central station. just outside the station the festival provided busses to the show. the first two days of the festival we didn't arrive until 9 or 10 pm so getting on the tram and bus was no problem. by the third and fourth day (also this was saturday and sunday so there were twice as many people attending the festival just for the weekend) getting there was much more of a hastle. on saturday we left our place at 4:30 and arrived at the festival three hours later! the tram station was packed, four or five trams passed us and they were completly full! there was no use in waiting so we ran across the street to try and get a cab but ended up hitchiking instead and got a ride from Thomas (lovin you) who took us all the way to the show! it was fabulous. poland has been a blast. our next destination is....