#TTOT Round-Up: Festival Travel

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Here's the round-up of this week's #TTOT: 

Q1 via pocketvillage: What's the first thing that comes into your mind when you think of Festival?

• ExpatGermany: Bright colors, loud music and FUN 
  
• Technosyncratic: Tents! And delicious food. And outrageous outfits. And hopefully good music!
• our_oyster: MUSIC!!! and mud and food that will really clog your arteries.....and beer. Lots of beer! 
  
• colmhanratty: Good times. Lots and lots (and lots) of good times
• backpackforever: Those big feather headdresses all the girls wear during Carnival
• TravelingEditor: Kegs, 1-litre tankards, yard glasses - not beer containers but instruments from which you drink from
• liligo_uk: If that festival is in the UK then definitely Wellingtons!
• swanny_adel: Doobies & boobies

Q2 via anythingtuscan: Everybody loves music and food festivals - what are the other top scorers?

• AnatheaT: Hot air balloon festival in Quebec or the International Puppet Festival in Ontario
• Himalfootsteps: Enchanted Forest Festival in Pitlochry - an illuminated forest at night, absolutely beautiful & on now
• hyperren: And of course, I dream of Oktoberfest
• nomadicchick: I'd say Holi in India. Had the best times of my life!
• theexplorateur: Film festivals are always fun!
• AdventureJo: Done it before but I'd do it again: "The San Marcos National Fair" in Aguascalientes. Mexico's biggest festival
• Technosyncratic: The garlic festival in Gilroy, CA. Who wants garlic ice-cream?
• hyperren: As a full-time theater geek and part-time movie geek, Theater Festivals and Film Festivals are awesome
  
• HotelPRGuy: Cultural, reflective festivals, like the Feast of Immaculate Conception in Rome 
  

Q3 via cemonde: If asked to name just one, which festival would you like to attend? 

• AcaciaAfrica: The Sauti za Busara fest on Zanzibar - the friendliest music on the planet & the spice island
• soloSicily: Cioccolart in Taormina! Tons of chocolate all for you to taste!
• onlyapartmentsI: If you want to discover true Balcan music, don't miss the Guča trumpet festival in Serbia!
• farihanpadilla: La Tomatina Festival
• londonescaper: I must go to Burning Man at least once before I die - MUST!
• MiddleSeatView: I'd love to go to Disney Food & Wine Festival
• BespokeTravels: Have always wanted to attend the Cannes Film Festival
• ehalve: I need to go to the Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Q4 via HostelBookers: What is the furthest you've traveled to for festival? 

• destinationeu: Paris to Arras (near Lille) for the Main Square Festival to see Pearl Jam 
  
• adventurouskate: Rode in the bed of a truck from Phnom Penh to dusty middle of Cambodia to celebrate end of harvest! 
  
• jm_deluxe: Flew from London to Germany for a massive rave in an old abandoned RAF Fighter Jet base
• Roopunzel: UK > Portugal for 9 days of PsyTrance at Boom - OMG!!!!
• crozul: Traveled to Brazil for Carnaval - one of the best experiences of my life!
• farihanpadilla: From Malaysia to Valencian Town of Buñol, for La Tomatina festival.

Q5 via himalfootsteps: What's the weirdest thing you ever experienced at a festival?

• TotalTravelBug: My friend burst a bouncy castle shaped like Beyonce's bum at Leeds Fest. We all got trapped in Beyonce's bum!
• MikeCjourno: Watching Slayer fans repeatedly shout SLAYER at each other for hours on end at Reading
• backpackergurl: In a mock jail cell at the Boryeong Mud Festival where they chuck buckets of mud in your face
• IdealCruising: A clean porterloo on day 3 of the Isle of Wight Festival, I felt like I had won the lottery!
• traveldudes: On one of the Love Parade wagons, they were filming a porno
• lionsandcows: People dressed as pickles at the Picklefest in NY State - hilarious
• eurapart: If you didn't experience anything weird, you were not at a festival

And there you have it, "Festival Travel"!

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Have YOU got anything to add to the Festival Travel discussion? 

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