Fell into another one

This trip has thus far been a series of random, well-timed, lucky events. The day I arrived in Dublin they was a huge gay-pride parade that had the whole city hoping, perfectly timed arrival in Aberdeen to join in on a weekend hiking event, in London the day after the Wimbledon finals, Pamplona for Running of the Bulls (planned), in Spain when they won the World Cup, in France for Bastille Day, and in France to see the Tour de France. The latest of these coincidences is that just north of Geneva is where they are having the Paleo Festival. It is one of the biggest music festivals in Europe. Five days of around 100 bands on 6 stages, with nearly 300,000 spectators. By luck, I heard about it, knew I would be close, so tried to get tickets; which I was able to do. Mostly bands that I don’t know, but good music non-the-less. I did see Ziggy Pop (who looks older than dirt, but he still puts on a decent show and the Europeans seem to love him) and Motorhead, which I knew; and a guy from Minneapolis, Brother Alli, who was pretty good. Only got a ticket for 1 of the 5 days, then camped on-site for a few days and just enjoyed the festivities. It was a giant field of every hippie in Europe, I think.