Delta Music Festival

After another grueling drive of 10 hours it was a quick sleep back in Bucharest before heading off to the Delta Music Festival in the south east of Romania. The Delta is an entirely different proposition to Maramures. The festival was being held in a tiny village called Sfantu Gheorghe which is quite literally in the middle of nowhere, where the Danube meets the Black Sea. The only way of getting there is by a four hour ferry ride down the Danube from Tulcea, the nearest town. The festival was a three day affair with acts such as Coldcut, UNKLE and Shukar Collective.

We had booked a room in the village and were quite apprehensive about it as we hadn't actually seen any pictures of it. We were to be met by it's owner on leaving the boat, and sure enough there she was. The signs weren't good. The lady in question looked like a warty witch, and she even brought here broomstick. Our fears worsened as we followed her to the opposite side of the village from the festival. We arrived at her house, which looked ok, only to be ushered past it, to a room in the barn behind it! No toilet, no bathroom and a smell that reminded us of dead people greeted our unsatisfied glances as we walked into our home for the next three days. Suffice to say we waited for the lady witch to leave before picking up our bags and hot-footing it out of there as quickly as we could.

We found alternative accomodation pretty easily, and at half the price, so it was off to the festival. I won't bang on too much about it as it wasn't very good. The music was below par, the place was half empty and the storms came, which kind of took the fun out of it. The saving grace was the beach where the Danube meets the sea. An utterly amazing place... oh, and the fish was a welcome sbstitute for Romanias staple diet of meat.