Road to Svitavy, Moravia (CZ), 2012

The punk festival Pod Parou is officially billed as being in Moravska Trebova, but in 2012 it was actually in Svitavy. This was not only inconvenient, as most of the fans without insider information (the directions were misleading to nonexistant), but also dangerous. This was the only road to the show from the Moravska Trebova train station, and of course real punk rockers travel by train, by bike, or on foot (unless they're driving their band's van to play at the show). This meant that the decision to move to Svitavy was not only inconvenient, but dangerous. Truckers were driving at full speed (100 Km/h) on the shoulder of the road, leaving no room for pedestrians and cyclists to survive. None of them attempted to brake, and frequently another truck would be straddling the centerline, preventing the offending truck from swerving back into its lane. This meant that everyone walking to the show had to scramble up the embankment, and then back down, since it wasn't possible to walk on the embankment (at least not easily). There was at least one memorial to a dead teenager on the road, and given the way people were driving (worse than any other drivers I've seen in Europe), it's easy to see how they were killed. Eventually, I went back to town, giving up on going to the show. Then things got a bit more interesting.