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LIDO Sounds Linz

Since the news announcing the acts, we knew, we’re going to go for it. The compilation of Anna Calvi, Alt-J, Interpol + Florence & Machine was too strong to hold back. And if you can see all of them during a day, there is no room to hesitate.

The LIDO Sounds festival took place on a bank of Danube River in the centre of Linz. As it is a city festival, with no option to oversleep in a camp, it makes it really hard to find a reasonable hotel with any available room.

Thanks to Austrian law, allowing you to have a beer and still drive responsibly, we decided to stay in Marchtrenk and a place called hotel Fischer (10 of 10 definitely!) From there it was just a 15 mins drive to the festival are.

Unfortunately, we missed the early performing Anna Calvi, as the distance from Graz to Linz still takes some time, but were just on time to kick off Alt-J. However next to the second song there was an interception announced, due to a storm coming up.

Afterwards, once the clouds were gone, Alt-J finished their set and we moved on for Interpol. A gig I enjoyed a lot. Nevertheless, the headliner was still to come. And Florence doesn’t disappoint for sure. Her concert was energetic, peaceful and great.

And such was our first Linz experience.

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Stockholm

Originally we did this trip to Stockholm between 28.6 and 30.6 because we wanted to secure at least one festival experience for the summer. Lollapalooza took our attention with a playlist including 2 of the best music performers. Arriving to the Swedish capital, we were very pleased by a perfect choice of our hotel. The Birger Jarl hotel (named after the town founder) was a wonderful selection. Heading out for the festival we were very surprised to see the “unique” swede, that we met the other week in our hometown 😁 Obviously he was surprised even more. 😂 The whole Friday we dedicated then to festival. It was a very nice experience, calm, clean just little bit expensive.

For Saturday and Sunday we had a kind of tour plan ready and tried to see as much of the city as possible. Places like Gamla Stan, Djurgarden (museum island), artist’s district Götgatan and Fotografiska we liked a lot. In addition we did a small tour within the town hall tower, from where there is beautiful view over the nearby islands. The atmosphere of the city, its infrastructure and proximity to sea have had some positive impacts on our memories.