A city in the city - Roskilde festival 2006 (Part I)

Finally, the long postponed post(s)!

Some facts about Roskilde Festival 2006:

• 8 days of amazing experiences
  
• more than 170 bands
• 6 big stages (Orange, Arena, Odeon, Ballroom, Metropol and Pavilion)
  
• 79 000 visitors, ~ 110 000 people overall
• the average age of the guests was 25
• all borne on the shoulders of more than 20 000 volunteers
  
• hot and sunny with temperatures reaching up to 25 °C (or maybe more)
  

Rather entertaining facts:

• it takes a year and a half to plan the festival
• it takes a fortnight to get the camping area and the festival site back to its normal state after the fun is over
• an asset that might have been very useful this year - dust masks (still feels like I've taken a kilo of dust from Roskilde in my lungs with me)
  
• 6 200 km of toilet paper was prepared to be used by festival guests (could cover the distance between Roskilde and New York)
• students who're using the festival as a project get a free wristband, in return they have to hand in their finished dissertations to the festival management (no kidding, they mean it serious!)
• 28 800 empty beer cans were daily handed in at the deposit stands, enough to fill three trucks with 950 full beer crates

Facts mainly taken from the daily festival paper Festival Globe and the Roskilde Festival homepage.