Budapest
15 May 2005 |
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It was another early morning start - this time EasyJet from
Luton Airport, which is a lot easier and quicker to get to than Stanstead
for me - but it is not such a nice airport - the check-in was chaotic,
and there were very limited facilities for eating and drinking, Not to
mention that a good part of the airport resembled a building site.
It was a good flight - I landed in Budapest just after 10:00. Jani was waiting at the airport to meet me - it was great to finally meet him. He escorted me to my hotel where I left my luggage, then we went to the train station to meet Marina who was due to arrive from Germany by train. It was very nice to see Marina again.
We were lucky that a Hungarian fan told us we could upgrade our tickets
to "Gold" to get in the area closest to the stage, or on the
balcony, although I am not sure if I really agree with charging more
in this way for the best places - I have never seen this before at a
Scooter concert, but for me it was worth the money. The only downside
to this was that we had to give back our rather attractive original
tickets with a nice picture of H.P. on them in exchange for a green
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Hmmm....he looks familiar! |
We were allowed into the hall at about 20:00 - we made it to the front row without any problems.
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H.P. poured water on the crowd, and threw a couple of towels into the crowd, which landed near to where I was standing.
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When Fire started and H.P. Said “Turn
out the lights” nothing happened and the lights stayed on - he repeated
it another 2 or 3 times before someone finally turned out the lights -
H.P. Did not look very pleased about this.
The concert was great - the same as Prague, but without Move Your Ass
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It was also great at the end of the show to see Scooter get their Hungarian Gold Disc for MTG. |
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After the concert we met Liss, Imre, Hank, Spike, Jani, Zita and a lot of other people whose names I don't know.
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Just as we were about the leave the hotel Rick, and H.P. and his girlfriend came into reception - H.P. And Simone left the hotel very quickly, Rick spoke to us for a couple of minutes - he looked very tired - he said he was just going to have breakfast, then went into the hotel dining room. A minute or so later Jay came by - he also talked to us for a few minutes. The 3 of us went out to look around Budapest - it was a lovely warm sunny day, and we went on a boat trip on the river Danube. After the boat trip we met Imre and had a walk around for a while - it was a great day, The only slight problem for me was that when I went to the airport my flight was delayed because of problems with French Air Traffic control - so I spend 6 hours at the airport, and was rather late getting home on Tuesday morning, and after not much sleep I had to work on Tuesday. I had a great trip - thanks to all of you who helped make it so:
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