The tenth „Exit“ festival began on Petrovaradin fortress last night-20 000 people from Britain are having fun in Novi Sad

The tenth “Exit” festival. The music frenzy began on Petrovaradin fortress last night. The camp on Trandzament, which is bigger and better equipped than the one in the previous years, was welcoming the lines of campers from all over Europe yesterday. Several days before the British (there are more than 20 000 of them in Novi Sad) settled there, and yesterday the visitors from Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina came. The prices at the camp are twice as higher than in the rest of the city but the guests seem to pay no attention to that. The calm atmosphere is a sign of a great party that will ensue after the sunset.

Six guys arrived from Holland, through Vienna to “Exit” camp in a small trailer. This is their first time on this festival. These guys are one of the rare visitors of the camp who were having loads of fun yesterday around noon and who created their own yard and a disco beside their trailer.
-We often travel like this and this year we were in two minds between “Sziget” and “Exit” festivals, but our friends told us that it was amazing here. That is my first impression as well. We had a great time at the camp last night, met some cool people, and the best of all is that there is a lot of girls here – says the driver of the orange bus, Herman Pimelbrie, with a smile, who drove his friends from Nijmegen, Holland.
His friend, Arie Jansen, adds that they are very eager to hear “Grandmaster Flash” and some other groups and only after the six-day party is over they will make plans for the rest of their vacation. Although there are people from New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Austria, Denmark, ex Yugoslavia, Italy and France, this festival and Novi Sad itself are marked by people talking in pure British English. Russians, whose campsite you can recognize by the flags and empty vodka bottles, are already lost somewhere, their “neighbors” claim.
-This is our first time in Novi Sad and “Exit”. Of course, we came here because everyone who had been here had an amazing time and just one photo I saw was a recommendation enough. Most people are from Great Britain so it seems like I know half of the camp. That is the only thing that bothers me a little. We are looking forward to the party in “Dance arena” and I think that the whole program wouldn`t have been better if I had made it myself. I have been traveling around Europe for two years already and I plan to make a tour of the whole Balkans after the festival, since I haven`t seen it yet – says Hermiona Russel from London and adds that the “crazy Russians” have fainted somewhere.
Right beside the campsite of the ten young people from London, we came across the group of high school students from Essex.
-This is a beautiful country, and what is more important, the weather is great. I think I have never seen so much sun and so many people in my life. I expect “Krafwerk” to be magnificent and I am looking forward to “The Prodigy” as well – says the young English John Dighart.
Although looking English at first site, some guys from Denmark are irritated because the habits of their neighbors from north make them feel like they are not welcome there. It was odd that the locals were averting their eyes when passing by. Only later, after talking to some young couple, I realized that everyone thinks we are English, who only love and respect themselves and their own country, and that it was the reason we were getting such reactions. On the other hand, everyone we asked for help was very kind. I like Novi Sad and in order to get to know it better we walked from the train station to the camp. I came here with five friends and there is a group of girls from Belgium next to us, so we already made some friends – says Michael Holmgarts from Copenhagen with a smile.

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