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Road trip to far far away in eastern finland - Day 2

Well Well , because of so many crazy blog readers requested ( !!!) to write the day 2 asap , I started writing it again.

Day 2 starts in a glamorous lappenrenta nightlclup - Hennes & Mauritz . It is decent and with variety of music . Though when I searched in google , most of the hits go to night clup Diva. But on the way to Diva we say Hennes & Mauritz with a long long queue ( Only two places finns queue , entrance to nightclup and crazy day in stockholm ( If you are female then toilet too ) )... Apprently we decided to check out this temple of worship .. Long long queue in obviously not a good weather outside Hennes & Mauritz. There was a gal starring at us since we funny looking foriengners complaining about finnish weather and how boring finns are sometime ( Well , in my living and learning about finns , they are shy but they have potential sense of humor , atleast one of the best jokes in my life I heard from finn that about a hippo and finn . If you do not know this ask any of your finnish friends , they might know ) .. So this gal in front of us started starring at us .. Our greek friend , lets call her as "Malaga the Medical Doctor " got obviously pissed off and started looking her back . I think she is lonely there , And she want some buddies but she doesnt have a guts to open her mouth and say it... But malaga said she might be angry about us since we complained about finland ( Well thats the truth anyway , so it is not a complaint ) ...

Well lets move on since the queue moves on ... There we are closer to the bouncer .. It is a horrible thing at mid night and you waited in a queue for 30 minutes and you are standing near to the bouncer next to get in but you dont have an ID.............. heart beat goes up and down like my announcement of exam results .. ( Shit .. I hate it ) .. My pessimistic mind says shit this guy looks one who hates forigners and he is going to kick me out .... World is full of surprises and there he smiles and say welcome ... Shit once again I am in a nightlclup where I could see fully maked up beautiful gals holding a cider in their hand and dancing as a group of gals.. ( Lespo's !!?? ... No they are not .. this is a funny thing about a finnish gal , they do not trust much when it comes to their wallet , so they usually keep thier waller in the middle and they circle around and start dancing... I do not know , thats a lack of confidence or need of appreciation... ) anyway .. I am in as a happy kid .....As soon as you enter , the first thing I would like to check is toilet .. Ofcourse just look in the mirror and say to urself " Stupids only beleive elvis is dead .. And I am the elvis "... Oops confidence peeks up and ready to rock and roll...

Road trip to far far away in eastern finland - Day 1

I do not know it is a good idea when I thought about driving to eastern finland on Easter holidays. Easter is still on apr , will that ring a bell on your brain .. if you live in Finland long enough it could, because the cold cold winter still leaves its foot steps in east. So it doesn't look like apr neither it feels so..

Nevertheless I do not have a choice because I did not pre-plan it as usual and even a rynair tickets to Riga cost few hundred euros . So I decided to see what kind of clothes Finns wear in east.

Day comes , we set to drive .. but does that make me Indian if I am not late .. Well this time I am determined to be in time .. but there comes my fate my other travel mate , he delayed it by 30 min ( you can guess where he could have from ) .. but nevertheless we started wheeling on road and we picked up our other friend ... you can not guess her nationality because no one did it .. Thats my fav bet, I am for sure that I will never loose, So some times I dare to bet drinks to strangers and enjoy their failure.

So first thing when we hit on the road , we realized that our car is not that hygienic , lol may be I am lazy enough to take my Toyota for shower... well so we have to do it .. It just cost 1.5 euro in a esso and couple of coins that is 3 euro could clean the car .. well its manual but it does the job .. this 2 great friends of mine sitting and enjoying the sun with a coffee and I am cleaning the car .. well that makes me a proud owner .. definitely not ... but that's the way it goes when you have great friends...

So there we go on 120 on a freeway to Porvoo ... when we reached there it is perfect sunny weather and I have to pay a parking ticket it cost 4 euro .. One thing I really hate is this parking tickets and I always try to check my luck here by not paying this .. well probability of getting fine seems high in Finland ... and it is 10 times higher .. so better pay this parking ticket rather than paying a fine that gets your hell out... We were hanging around in old town and that's the best place to hang around .. I am not so amused of the great old legendary church there because it doesn't impress me that much may be I was not that grown up ..You have to compare the food price between this old town and just 200 meters on the other side .. it could be 50% off .. well learn how the tourism can hike the price...

So we end up in Amarillo , a restaurant chain in Finland .. and salmon that's the favorite food ... this little creature are so beautiful when they swim also when they dead in your plate especially with little salt and nothing more..
after the food we were as lazy as drunken crocodiles and lying down in the bench .. that makes it a perfect day ...I saw a old lady with wrinkles and I always amazed how nature add beauty .. or it is just not noticed well ...

back on the wheels head to Lappenrenta.. there we are behind the pizzeria in a tiny hostel door ... guess what no one there other than us ...and we were talking about hostel kind of horror movies .. We saw a hostel keeper , he is in his 40s with a long pony tail ... honestly it looks like we are the only one and I see rock star style of hostel keeper and my back brain having the stories of horror movies ... shit my face already getting pale .. but being the man do you ever show your fear ... Interestingly he is impressive and too nice ... so once again my wise monkey told have a faith on humanity and get the Hollywood movie shit out of brain..
we had a perfectly set bet with miniature size TV and empty refrigerator .. now i have a nap though my friends went out for a sightseeing believing that something spectacular out ... though you can go out of city in 10 min if you run fast and 15mins if you do jogging and 20 min if you walk. The best thing can happen to you is when you wake up and you are still alive .. Especially after you have a nap on Saturday night and you are as fresh as like a morning flower and you are ready to rock and roll on unknown city...Anyway we thought of check out some local night club , We chose the nightclub which has the longest queue ( trick you should learn from Finn , may be sometime it could miserably fail )..That's end of first day.....

Trip to Norway Day3

Next day early morning we decided for some sightseeing ...

Trip to Norway Day 2

I love the morning breakfast provided if someone else prepare for me . But ofcourse I am addicted to morning tea that always made my life better for no reason . somehow we managed to reach the railway station , its called T-Centrum in stockholm. we got an after some pictures ( ofcourse as usual geek took picture of himself which terribly make him as a scientist) . We found our place inside the train and LB sit near to geek as usual and I opened the book named The Broker . I must say that though the narration of story not that good , this book is one amazing concept, how a law maker can screw up any bodies life and indeed themself.

Sweden is pretty much plain land and nothing was exciting that much to me and this boaring landscape made me to sleep. And there I was reading in a brouchure the most beautiful fjord in the world name Gjranger. That time I never thought it is going to be one of the best things in my life .

Nothing pretty much to say in this train journey and there we got off at Oslo , My face felt a fesh air in yet another politically divided geographical localtion which fight for the peace in the world and rich by oil and poor in climate . It could go -20 in winter and dark will be little bit frighten . But yet another heaven at summer. We walked outside the Railway station and there we saw the standing Tiger ( Male!! ) and usualus scenaries in railway station , a bunch of drunken old people , backbagged tourists spending their last mintue , traveller. IN that time it neither looked to me rich and glorius. After couple of qneuires we find a way to our youth hostel . Amazingle people are pretty much willing to help everywhere. And good thing about whole of western countries are well mapped locations . So most of the things are self explanative , pretty much you dont need to ask anyone about where to go and how to go if you follow the signs. Well this self independent some time separate the people too .

It was long tram journey ofcourse my tiry mind made it so . I am a slow walker like lazy pig so geek and LB vanished somewhere near hostel. I dont have any address and my phone is dead and I was sitting in a road side bench hoping that some one will come and pick me .. But no one turned up for 20 mins . Little bit nervous I started thinking that how can i charge my phone to get this guys . Well lucky geek popped up somewhere to show the hope of light.
I must say the hostel is one of the best youth hostel I ever stayed . It is clean , has a gym and pool table , library and a huge ground infront of the hostel with a greates look. I simply liked it .
After a little bit argument we agreed to go to downtown for a hangout and food. Atleast I want to get a taste of typical norwegian food , so that drove us to search everywhere ??resturent . Almost the mintue before we die by hunger we found a place still we dont know thats the place we intended for but we got on . There was a nice terrace and cool atmoshpere and funny warning. we ordered a local norweigan beer and food?? .

Slowly we decided to check some bar and LB as usual guided to another great localtion where we get the whole view of Oslo , It is called skybar and its in top floor of Radisson sas . There are 2 radison sas but this one is near to castle. We found a seat and we went to order some tea and beer. The bar attendent is an asshole indeed , he said in a funny english , I dont understand your language lets agree first on langauage . "One tea" is the only word I spoke to him. somehow we managed to get our drink and it was an amazing view of whole Oslo from there . It is beautiful when you see it in sunset. Surrounded with mountains and sea water the capital of norway looks simply amazing . And there we did the highest pee of our life. there ends our second day.

Trip to Norway Day 1

This was a like a dream when one evening I got an idean from my flat mate what about going to Norway one of his friend from Austria who lives in Sweden coined that idea. My head slowly nodded towatds yes though I came back from an exotic trip from Poland . There begins an another adventure trip towatds the north west cold Scandinavian . Honestly nothing I know about Norway except my knowledge from BBC echos that it is one of the peace loving country . The first step begins with checking for visa , ofcourse I had my schengen visa and that leads to skip the visa . Then towards booking the ticket and planning a trip . First we started with exploring the trip from mountain Norway capital and traveling all way upnorth to Nordkapp and town to home of santa claus ) Rovaneimei) and back to capital of Finns. But how the time I was partying rest of the time I hate phone conversation with an unknown person who sits in Swedish capital and claim himself an Austrian . So I leave it to my sweetheart flatty to book everything . Now I have to give a little introduction about my flatty Indian ( Atleast he still holds an navcy blue Indian passport though he was wandering as much as Margo Bolo ). He is abosulute computer geek and if you are smart enough then you can sell blinking LED as state of art GPS device for 100 bugs to him . He lives half the time with GPS and rest of the time only planning about his thesis work indeed he never made any progress on it . So this two guys were hopping from site to site and using all the technological survilence system , creditcards , student id , discounts blab la … come up with a great deal at the end .A week earlied I got an invitation to my outlook titled “Heaven in Norway” …. The much awaited day comes when we bagged everything ( hehe , nothing but 3 dirty jeans and couple of jackets and some private items ) ., I left Helsinki in a crusie much earlier since I have to play 3 days for much excited game In the world called cricket ,. Though it was little bit drixxling and I slept in a mosque with 15 crusaders from Afgan and Pakistan , I quite enjoyed the atmosphere . Got couple of birtts and enjoyed their company as usual. They are great buddies and occasionally disappoint my mind which never satisfied on anything . Well , Our great trip begins with a SMS from geek ( We call the great Indian flat mate who roams around with latest multimedia computer on earth named N95 ) . We see near to the Mariatorget and I got a metro from Halunda ( Where I stayed for 3 days ) to Maritorget . And I had seen there geek and good looking Austrian guy who was non stop speaking in phone . I heard from geek that he recently got a gal friend . So that immediately splashes on my mind and definelty don’t want to disturb him . Then he waved the hand sign torwards left and we soon waling towatds Stockholm street in a sunny afternoon . That leads to some basement where it looks completely dirty but soon we got an elevator and ends up a much nicer apartment which smells and shows African . First I thought he has an African gal friend and I confirmed it when I see the African women later he claimed her as his landlord. I must say about her apartment , it is so clean and kept really neat , it was shared by a 3 people and which is located almost in downtown of stockhoml . As usual lazy ass like me just fall in sleep for couple of hours in the mean time geek went out to buy batteries for his newly bought camera ( he is as proud as his gal friend which though he haven’t had one , about camera ) …. Finally we somehow sync up in the evening decided to have a walk around Stockholm and we don’t want to disturb our loverboy ( we call hear after the cool , polite Austrian buddy as loverboy). Also he want to wash his dirty clothes which indeed stings lesser than mine . So I decided with geek to hang around the city . Sooner geek made couple of phone calls with another 2 desis to see in Stockholm . Geek said we are going to see those buddies in T-Centrum which is the centre of stockhol in 8.15 . As usual in IST ( Indian standard time is what ever the time agree + 1 hour + x , x here as an excuse ). Meanwhile we are attaracked by a kino where it shows death proof one the Quantin movie but we never had a time , so I follwed geek to meet desis . And I have to buy some sandels to wlak around youth hostel but as usual I went after the shops closed , eventulally that saved some bugs and I hoped myelsef I am dirty enough to survive without sandals . We met desis though they are not that important for this blog and they are lovely aqauintance and studies and business mind there we really had some cool business ideas and at 11 almost we decided to go home and as usual I don’t have any idean about where abouts of loverboy home , So the geek took me somewhere and announced I also don’t know the place and then he opened his nice toy N95 and opened a GPS . He slected plan route . There it shows a very a nice route . I asked a very first primate question that can I trust this little toy. With grin in his face he said Yo ( it means in finnish yes) . Then we were walking around the town for 15 minutes . Then I suspected and asked the geek , he taken his eyes around N95 and look around and said we came back to the same place . At god shake we cursed all those developers who developed the software and use our common sense to find our way . Meanwhile my little angel in my brain popped up to scream about partying …. And we made a call to loverboy and still unknown reason he don’t want to show up at that night … Since it is too expensive to get it we decided to walk around . We got two heinkenen in hand and we just want to check how the sweds treat a dirty looking foreigners hold a beer and look alcohol in a 5 star best hotel in town . We went inside with little scare in mind whether he allow us inside the Grand Hotel of Stockholm . Ofcourse we managed to get in to reception and want to know the availability of room for next day night .As expected the answer was NO . We came out with a conclusion appearance matters . But still I want to check it out whether the information given by receptionist is true , we opened our N95 and browsed on interner for the phone no of the hotel and made a international roaming call ask for next day availability . Still the answer was NO .. We felt happy and concluded that Scandinavia is a place where all the people are pretty much equal . And we finally we got on some metro without realizing that’s our last one and geek ordered to get off at some place and we walked all the way somewhere and when I am about to say we sleep on the street , Geek said we near to loverboys home . There we made a call to loverboy and ofcourse he picked us up where we met nice Swedish gal who was claimed as his gal friend which compleately changed my opinion about his afraican gal friend . And the next day alarm rang at 6 in the morning when I was launched to toilet to get ready .