Invading restaurant kitchen and paying too much in Norway
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| Landing to Oslo |
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| The shittiest joke competition |
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| Holmenkollen |
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| Oslo |
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| Modern Oslo |
The trip started just perfectly- without no sleep at all we arrived in Norway around 7 o clock in the morning. Well, before that we enjoyed morning beer (at 6) in Helsinki-Vantaa and purchased plenty of alcohol from tax-free to survive one afternoon in Norway. Out of 176 rainy days it was perfectly sunny and even warm in Oslo. Not a bad start. Few sights included Holmenkollen and the opera house. Finding an affordable lunch proved tricky. A bit clumsy as I am, I accidentally entered the restaurant kitchen instead the toilet. The restaurant owner looked at me shocked as I determinedly walked behind the desk and opened the door to cooling room. Some other's bought traditional Swedish food for traditional Norwegian price. This means 20€ for pytt i panna. Then a beer for 12€. Not a bad beginning.
On the way to Göteborg, Sweden, people fell asleep. After several hours of sleep we were woken up to loud screaming. These were the happy yells of people who have opened the Finnish alcohol bottles. Drinking game was on.
Swedish sauna experience and teaching traditional songs
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| The cheapest dinner ever! 4,5 euros buffet + beer. |
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| Spending evening in Göteborg |
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| Stealing traffic signs after sauna-after-party |
In Göteborg we were welcomed by local IEM students and left for a pub were you get beer for 4 euros and you can eat as much as you want for the same price. Not a bad deal at all. This crowded pub was followed to another one where the drinking songs started and salmari was poured under table. Sweds prove not bad people at all.
Some people (including me) continue to after party. Thanks to Isabel for offering her flat, soon it's filled with happy Finnish students emptying the Finnish drinks and getting slighly drunk! A nice surprise comes when one of the Sweds tells he put the sauna on. To our disappointment, the sauna is really cold (only around 50 degrees) and Finnish guys stand on the top, naked, while the Sweds are sitting ashamed towel around them. One lucky Finn got into same shower being sandwitched by to Swedish guys. Finally I and my friend Mikko got lost and while stealing traffic sings we got lost, walked 1 hour in the rain and finally took a cab.
Great night.
Sleepy students at Volvo & naked wrestlers in Skåne
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| Thirsry students at Volvo |
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| 1st class |
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| Our accommodation in Skåne |
It's pretty fun to enter Volvo company in total hangover and listening to 2 and half hours the safety features of some new Volvo models. Driving a simulator proved I was still not in a driving condition, in fact none of us could stay on the road and the reaction time was slow as a snail. To put some meaningful input in this blog text, the manufacturing line of Volvo was highly interesting (for the once who could keep their eyes open).
We will get a well deserved laid back evening in super fancy, old mansion house in Skåne area. Our driver Magnus, aka Magneetti, aka Magnum, aka Mangusti, aka Mankeli proved us his extraordinary driving skills while reversing the car into extremely small space so we don't have to walk more than 5 meters. To our joy, we realised the owner of the mansion lives there which we didn't understand. Alcohol was smuggled in and soon smoke was coming out of BBQ. Even though the owner slept just behind the wall and Magnum was also living in the same house, we were playing games, drinking, listening to music and dancing until morning hours. At two o clock the neighbors had called to complain about the noise and naked Finns wrestling in the back yard. I think the owner was too scared of us to come and tell it until morning. Efficient as we are, the whole mansion was all cleaned up and we had eaten breakfast before 8, to surprise for the owner. The road continued to Denmark.
ADHD Danish and visiting Greenland
Denmark is extremely rainy. We choose to only visit Christiania and decide this is the place to go at night. Well, some do, some don't. This free town is full of partying people, bands all over, sweet flawours and creamy cake given out for free. Communism is still on the lead there. I feel homey. Later we enter one of the cheaper bars and order 7 shots for each of us, competing in singing with Danish students. Some of them have ADHD obviously. Some go to sleep while me with few of my friends decide to take a look at Christiania. The party is on. Some cellars are full of music, smoke coming out and closed windows tell something's going on there. Joints for sell on the sides of the street at the Pushers street. We found a great folk band and showed some movements, then joined another more crowded party with latino music before we entered the Greenland.
Yes. The gazes turned to us. Five random Finnish fellas surrounded by crowd totally high/in drugs. A friend of mine whispers me "let's get out.. quick!". We take few more looks around and decide it's better to get home. I must say at night this place has some threats, but if you stay at the bar with all the folk you're in no danger. Entering the Greenland was probably not the wisest decision though. On the way home we bought more beer and faced few more strange guys. Someone managed to navigate home.
Helangår and visiting jail in Linköping
On the way we visited Kalmar and made the company representative miss his student times. He had been himself an industrial management student in Skåne and knows what we are going through. The narrow roads nearly caused some crashes.
The enter to Linköping was grandeur. The bus stopped in the meeting point where the local students were waiting for us, 30 drunken Finnish students rushed out. At that moment we also realised the toilet tank had broke down and everything that was inside poured on the ground. The smell was sweet. Elsa commented "you all look really happy." First we broke a full bottle of red wine in the student house. Then we were lodged in our hosts and realised most of us have to sleep on floor without a mattress. We 4 slept in one bed.
Evening continued with socializing with the Sweds, experiencing Swedish sauna which was this time nearly as good as back in Finland and singing Helangår accompanied with some drinks. Finally it was the time to conquer the night life of Linköping. Bar was nearly empty but a group of 40 consisting of Finnish and Swedish student made the night club alive. Incredible dance moves and ultimate fun. Although at this point we lost some members of the group. One was kicked out after 30 hours because of sleepiness. Another one familiarized himself with Swedish jail and experienced it better than the student house. Next time we might decrease costs and lodge all of us in jail. Epic photos are made in taxi after party.
Frozen people at Tekniskaverken and Ukkometso in Stockholm
In the morning we were some one hour late because some members were lost (or in a jail). Finally everyone was found and the trip continued to Tekniskaverken, an energy factory. We all were so hangoverish we had troubles keep our eyes open and could hardly speak. "We study industrial engineering and some of us study..... electric." For sure no one studies 'electric' here. Even the word 'gift' was forgotten. Something to add, it smelled really bad there. And some of us got lost. Afterwards we laughed hysterically for 1 hour in the company cafeteria.
Several hours of totally dead people in the bus and finally we were in Stockholm. Pre-party Sitsit started at the hostel. It took extremely long time to get this group across the city to KTH, where our after-pre-party was to be held. The local students had organized an ESTIEM party in their guild room. Plenty of Finnish songs were played and socializing happened in the name of love of neighboring countries. At some point the party turned quite epic and shirtless Sweds were dancing on tables. Some Finns continued to night club which costed around 25 euros to enter (no night club in entire Finland costs more than 15€). Everyone returned to hostel sooner or later.
Swimming in the river and drunken sailors
The day started with floating for 3 hours in a jacuzzi with screaming kids. Afterwards we explored the city and some of us decided to go swimming naked in the river next to Gamla Stan.
The next step... the boat. We decided to have Sitsit party in the boat from Stockholm to Turku and scared the families out of the buffet. Drinks are free so you could see everyone having at least 3 glasses of wine/beer in front of them. Strategy: eat the most expensive shit from the table but leave space for 1 liter of wine. Finally we are kicked out. It's entertaining to go to tax free to buy some alcohol while being already a little bit tipsy. The party continued in a cabin and soon amazing dance moves against black people are showed in the dance floor. I remember even visiting the restaurant kitchen for some reason. Someone jumped off the boat but luckily it was non of us. One of us made company with a little bit 'older' woman (age different merely 40 years). Finally only 50% of us returned to cabin and some of us slept in the corridor until someone came to wake us up to tell we should get off the boat. Bus trip to Tampere was dead quiet. In Tampere I hardly understood I was in Finland, went home and slept for 15 hours.
This is called an epic trip.
