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Just realized that I didnt post these pics on DI boards yet.
Graduated from highschool 13th of June (went a program called Natural siences for 3 years. Tons of physcis, chemistry, biology etc).
Mine and Kill Guards school the day of my graduation (shot by my dad)
Swedish tradition to rent a tractor after you graduate then take a 1 hr cruise in the town.
12 bottels of champagne and about 150 bottels of beer consumed by us during that hour =D
Me and my friend planned this trip since december 06 or so when I came up with the idea.
We did some researching and we started to love the idea more and more.
The 15th of July, the very same day that Id leave my senior-high school for good (after 3 years with the same class) we jumped on our first train and left Sweden (I skipped the last goodbye meeting with my class lol, never liked it anyway =$).
Pic of our route.
Outside my friends house and car just as we were leaving.
Im the brown-haired guy.
First main stop was Amsterdam. When we checked a few days earlier and we found millions on hostels in the city so we thought booking one was unnecessary. Huge misstake.
We arrived to Amsterdam and found out that every hostel was booked.
We walked around a lil, ate lunch then thought **** this city and jumped on a train to Paris.
We arrived to Paris same day (16th) on the evening. Unexperienced as we were we thought we should walk to our hostel (booked one while we were in Amsterdam).
After half an hour of walking around in Paris we ended up in the ghetto or something similar lol.
After asking a few less dangerous looking people directions we continued our journy to our hostel.
About two hours later, 5-6km of walking and asking alot of people for directions we found our hostel behind a restaurant.
Trying to short down the story - Next day we went sightseeing (my parents wouldnt pay my trip unless I actually saw something L =$)
Our room after 1 night.
I dont know what this is called in english lol, a translation from swedish would be "The Thriumph Bow". Famous monument in central parts of Paris. Memorial of french kings and such.
Started raining as we
walked up towards the 2nd and last platform lol. We were stuck for 2-3 hours.
Both me and my friend love soccer so -
Stade de France!
Tourists! Those losers paid 7 euro each to get a tour...
... while me and a friend found an open door on the other side of the arena and went in. VIP section please (H)?
The Louvre. We could afford to travel there but not to pay the entrance fee (9 or so euro). If you dont know this - this is the famous museum where Mona Lisa is located.
Notre Dame. Famous church, also movie title.
That was last thing we saw of Paris. Later that day we took the nighttrain towards Barcelona.
Beautiful little town called Port Bou just at the Spain boarder at the sea. We had to wait for our train to Barcelona and we thought we might aswell look around.
To understand why this made us both **** our pants you have to know the swedish alcohol policy. In Sweden the government has monopoly on alcohol sale (except beer under 3.5%). The only store that sells liquor in sweden is called Systembolaget and to buy there you have to be 20+ years old. The worst part is that the government belives that if they sell liquor expensive it will limit the consumption = the liquor taxes are skyrocket in Sweden = a bottle of **** vodka cost 12+ euro.
With other words - we found heaven.
I couldnt belive my eyes. I wanted to go to Amsterdam for three reasons. 1, Buy Absinth. 2, Buy "special brownie" 3, Buy cannabis.
We failed all three. We didnt find Absinth, we didnt find brownies and the cannabis costed 15 euro/g. I almosted cried as we left Amsterdam empty handed :$ so when we found THIS ^ in a random little village in Spain I couldnt belive my eyes.
We bought one bottle seeing as our bags were completly full already.
If you don know what Absinth is - This is high % alcohol, mostly 70%+. Back a houndred years there was hashoil and other more or less legal preparates in this. A few famous painters are supposed to have died by this wonderful drink.
The "real" Absinth, with the drugs, is illegal in most EU countries so this is most likely a cheap replica.
Again, we were shocked by the prices. This is a small store in Barcelona.
Outside Nou Camp (H)?!?!?!
Where the commentators and journalist sit during Barca's games (H)?!??!
Henrik Larsson painted on the wall of Barcas souvenirshop.
Sagrada la familia (sp?). Famous church that was never completed.
Town between Barcelona and Marseille where we had to change train. We took a bath in that wonderful water.
Beach at Marseille. Extreme waves that day.
Two days later or so, June 26th I belive, we arrived to Nice. Hottest beaches at the french riviera.
Our hostel, 15 euro a night per person.
Great price for sucha place.
After 2 days or so we moved on this Milano.
SAN SIRO (H)? Zlatan Ibrahimovic's home stadium (H)?
Next day we headed on towards, what we thought would be Croatia.
We had to change train in Venezia and Trieste.
We only stayed here in Venezia for a couple of hours. Mostly cause it smelled sewers everywhere and we managed to pick the worst resturant ever.
Me ***** at my friend cause he was messing around while we didnt had a place to sleep.
After Venezia we took a train to Trieste (far northeast in Italy). You could basiclly spit to Croatia from there. We arrived at 7.15pm and the last bus to Rijeka (touriste city in northern Croatia) left at 7pm LOL.
We quickly found out that there was ONE hostel in the city and took the bus there.
Trying to ruin our trip the staff at the hostel told us that EVERY SINGEL BED was taken.
We had two choices, get really drunk and crash on a park bench and hope not to get robbed or raped during the night or go back to the train station.
We settled with the last. As we arrived back to the train station in Trieste we noticed a train leaving to southern Italy somewhere. We jumped on (this was at around 11 pm) and next day at about 6am we were in Rome L O L. Offically wrong direction if you want to go to Croatia.
- On the train to Rome -
By now we belived we were somewhat experienced and we didnt reserve a bed. Instead we found out on previous trains that you can "drag down" both seats. If you did this they would form a bed. In these trains there were compartment of 6 seats per. We managed to find an empty one and made a bed out of the whole thing (H).
During the night, while we slept we got robbed on 100 euro that was inside our shared wallet which was inside a black bag sort of thing that was in the middle of our compartment.
Even tho the 100 euro loss we kept going.
Coloseum at 7am.
Fontana di Trevi. I sat at the exact same spot pretty much 10 years ago when I was there with my family.
The Vatican. Was seriously 40+ degrees there.
That was the last monument we thought we had to see in Rome. Within THREE hours we did a complete toure around Rome seeing The Spanish stairs, Raphaelos or Michellangelos grave etc.
Now we reserved seats on a train to Rijkeka in northern Croatia - Where we were ment to go from Venezia. We had it printed out and reserved, Rome - Rijeka...
We wake up next day at the exact time and find ourselfs in ... Zagreb. L O L. Like 3 hrs with train from Rijeka. Someone apparantly **** up and we got on wrong train LOL.
So from here we took a train to Split (6hrs ride *yawn*).
Isnt that hot (H)? Split in the middle of Croatia at the coast.
For 8 Euro we got their national dish, a beer and a 0.4dl jägermeister. Thats pretty much nothing, seeing as we paid 5 euro for a piece of **** toast in Rome.
We took a bath next day in Split before we headed to the island west of Split, Brac.
We arrived at Bol - a small town on the island Brac and rented a room.
The bathroom...
... and a room for like 26euro per night (for 2 persons). Again, thats nothing. We calced ~20 euros per person per night in a ******* room. This room as not just extremly clean but the family we rented it from was kind enough to drive and wash our **** =$.
Pic of the island. We rented a scooter next day and drove around it. - See blue lines.
^ Shot during the trip.
Found a city with a nice beach. Me diving in.
Saw that beach as we drove in the mountains. Stopped for a bath.
Third beach we stop at.
This is back at Bol. Best pizzas during our whole trip.
Me showing my friend how to swim after 2 large beers and a jäger.
Zlatni rat is one of the most famous beaches in Croatia. Like 2 km from our apartment.
Look at dat water!
(H)
At this point our camerabattery died and we only had cellphones to take pics = worse quality and less pics.
We met my parents who were on vacation with my little brother at Balaton lake in Hungary (we planned this, so it wasnt an accident lol) and I borrwed their camera.
Me and my friend stayed in Siofok, best nightlife in whole **** Euorpe. Coca cola beach is the best place ever. Night clubs lining up infront of you, outdoor dancefloors at the beach, outdoor bars at the beach etc.
One of the few pics we took at coca-cola beach.
The girl is a friend of ours and she was staying in Siofok at the same time.
Our room after 2 nights lol.
The white plastic bag in the bottom right corner is filled with cans and bottels.
After about 4-5 days we left Siofok and headed to Budapest where we slept for free at her brothers place (H).
We orderd the biggest pizza ever and split it between the three of us.
To understand how big it was...
Sightseeing in Budapest. This is the Lanchid, the most famous bridge that binds Buda and Pest together.
The Hungarian parlament that their so proud of.
The same night, 12th, we left for Czech Republic. Since its a **** country and their capital Prague is filled with burnout bums and such we only had a couple of pics.
This city was still probably our favorit - only cause of the "yellow market"/"asian market".
This market is atleast 5 soccer fields large and FILLED with asians selling everything, mostly clothes tho.
The amazing thing about this market is that most of the clothes and wares their selling is real. In most cases stolen, but still, its not faked.
If your good at bargain this is your dream.
After walking around abit we found a guy who was selling shirts and belts.
I found a hotass Diesel belt and my friend found a shirt. When we asked how much he wanted for both he said 1300 CZK (~42 euro). We were like, **** this is good but lets try to haggle the price. We got it down to 600 CZK (22euro) for both and we said, ok, let us just go to the bank and withdraw the money.
We seriously thought this deal was great and we really ment what we said.
The chineese guy on the other hand thought we were still haggleing and said 550 CZK. We were like wtf and opend our wallet and showed him that we only had 450 left but we were going to the bank.
Then he said 500 and we could barely hold our laughter. After some talking we got the belt and the shirt for 450 CZK ( 15 euro) and as we headed off laughing we heard the guy probably swear and cuss at us in chineese LOL.
This was one of the most fun parts of the trip.Seeing as the belt and the shirt could cost well over 80 euro together in Sweden we orgasmed at our deal.
Now we really went to the bank, withdrew 500 CZK and went back to another stall and bought two more shirts for 500 CZK and haggled just as we did in the first stall.
We ended up with 11 shirts and 2 betls I think lol.
Only pic of Czech Republic.
Berlins railway station. H U G E.
4 Floors large with Mc Donalds, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut etc.
Last step before we reached Sweden (H)?
Buying trainticket to our town in Sweden. 6.30 am.
At my friends house packing up the loot and telling stories (H)
What we bought in total (H). 90% from the chineese market in Prague.
5x Absinth
2x Jägermeister
4x Belts
2x Hats
11+x T shirts/shirts
And again.
The whole thing, everything included costed about 3000 USD. We calculated a budget before the trip and amazingly we managed to keep up with it almost perfectlly.
We plan on doing something similar this summer but with a car instead of train.
