mention cancelled talks on day1

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tags = ['travel', 'WHY 2025']
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Please note the disclaimer from [Day 0](../day0/) still applies.
At day 1 I woke up in a warm tent to ABBAs "Gimme Gimme", making further sleep impossible.
The weather service now predicted hotter weather than originally planned for, so I had to ration my cooler clothing for the hottest days, which had yet to come.
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The following questions were also about specific products and services.
I am pretty sure this would not have been on the Fahrplan in Germany, and as stated by others this would also have raised eyebrows in the Dutch hacker community one or two decades ago.
I wanted to get a new mate, but had to walk to a different bar because of issues with the payment system again.
### Power issues
Shortly thereafter, the soundcheck of a Metallica tribute band fittingly called _Sad but Tribute_ started.
I wanted to get a new mate, but had to walk to a different bar because of issues with the payment system again.
As Heaven announced, the power outage was not on site and affected all of North Holland.
This meant that everything that was attached to the regional power grid, which was meant to be more stable than the on-site generators, did not work.
Because of this, all talks for the rest of the day were cancelled and mostly rescheduled in the following days.
At least bar payments were possible again shortly thereafter.
When the sun started to settle, the soundcheck of a Metallica tribute band fittingly called _Sad but Tribute_ started.
From then on, the evening was filled with surprisingly close covers.
The castle-shaped stage ("party area") and the flamethrowers attached to the towers were visible from all over the camping grounds.