I just booked two weeks off of work. I have not taken a two week vacation since I started working. I can do this now, because I live in "Europe." I'm very excited because I've decided that since I am in "Europe" and rapidly approaching middle age, I should check out the festival scene before I lose my edge. There's a Barcelona one at end of May that I'm considering, but think maybe my two weeks, starting in Croatia with be enough to keep me sated.

They just released the line-up for the big Ireland festival, and of course there's always a lot of excitement and even more whining and grumbling over the choice of acts. One of my pals spit out a pearl of wisdom paraphrased:

The gigs are incidental. Mainly they just get in the way of the craic.