Dimanche 8 novembre 2009
Ready for a spontaneous trip to Sweden?
That's how planned it was, it was ok, let's take the car and see you there!
We wanted to go visit a couple of friends who are studying in Göteborg, Sweden and then visit Stockholm!
France-> Belgium -> Holland -> Germany -> Denmark -> Sweden!
32 h to get there, 26h to come back (we took a little shortcut)! totaling around 2500 km
4 passengers, and 3 drivers among these
This was scribbled by the GPS, whose job was to find the shortest way between Alès and Paris, then Paris and Göteborg. Took 15 mins to calculate...
This thing even told us "Get aboard the ferry" when we were about to board in! That was hilarious!
We stopped in belgium to try belgian fries, but nothing special, and then in Germany for a Burger King mmmm....(Got lost for one hour to find one open xD)
On the ferry between Denmark and Sweden:
"Sweden, I can't see you, but we're coming!"
Göteborg
2nd biggest city in Sweden, where namely Aurélien (from Douai) and André (from Alès) are studying for their degrees.
At the port rests this huge boat! I'd love this one in my bathtub to play with xD!
The map of the crossing, good idea!
Konditori !! We are in Germani !!!
Skansen Kronan
This little castle is on top of a hill, and with its sibling on the other side of the city, they were supposed to protect Gothenburg from the attacks of the Danish!
The other one is surmounted by the statue of a lion, this one by a metallic crown. For some reason, Thor is angry and keeps throwing thunderstorms on this building xD
Someone stole the liberty statue's torch!
The Roadmen (the Travellers) The team's here, + Andre at the extreme left.
For his birthday, we went to an expensive swedish restaurant (at the top of a skyscraper) to eat typical swedish food, here's the result :
Needless to say, Alex was very very happy when he got his plate... lol
He thought "So much food! I'm never going to finish this!"
And mine was exactly the same. So after eating this mmm.... appetizer, we decided to go to another restaurant to get a swedish dessert:
Hahaha friggin hilarious.... You see this little bathtub that would have its place in a doll's house is actually Enguerrand's white chocolate mousse hahaha!
And my plate is even funnier...W T F!!!
... That's why we regularly ended up at Burger King or the chineses' all you can eat in the surroundings!
There are truly wonderful landscapes in Göteborg, the kind you'd expect to see in Canada, but not his close to Europe! Plus, you add a variety of colors due to the beginning of Autumn, and that's perfect.
If you want to go hiking, that's a great place to do some! We're thinking about doing some camping on one of these islands next summer... to be continued
Jump! Jump! Jump!
I volunteered as a lifeguard for crazy frenchmen. It was damn cold, and I'm not even talking about the water!
I still wonder how he didn't get sick after all this xD
Then we went to the university, to wave hi to the students DURING class, and to the teacher as well.. funny
And... came the end of these three days at Göteborg, and we took the train to go to Stockholm!
Waiting for Thomas
Windows 95 - powered trains.. Yeah Jérome likes it! :-p
Le tricot- sport national
You may not see it in this pic, but she was actually knitting me a swedish pullover when I asked her if I could take a picture :-p
That's what you do when you get bored too?
I prefer playing this!!!!
Hahaha awesome! Adult's games are just bigger versions of kid's games!!
Every morning, we got breakfast served by princess Leia, this is soo geeky xD
Star wars buns and american pies! blurp
Fresh paint!
Stockholm, where birds train to stand on one foot
Look at the moon, ok?
I found out where they all get their blond hair from haha busted!!
Le restaurant végétarien à risque!
Ladies and gentlement, the Black Pearl! I didn't see Jack Sparrow though...
Cool people we met in the street, Emily and Emilia, how original ^^
To sum up, I really liked Sweden, I expect to come back for some more fun times, but next year because it's going to get really cold up there ! :-p
I recommend not to try swedish restaurants ^^ at least if you want to eat a normal sized meal, and instead make your own salmon+swedish bread sandwiches mmmm.....
I now have a couple friends there I gotta visit, and anybody who's going to Stockholm has to go to my favorite Hostel there, Crafoord place! Ingrid is awesome!
The swedes are open and cool, I remember the elevator girls who were our friends during 20 floors, the blue bar at the 40th floor, I still can't count how many times we walked through Stockholm from South to North, enough to compensate for the hours spent in the car sleeping in all sorts of special positions...lol
Now where's going to be the next spontaneous trip? any ideas? If it's fun enough, we might want to organize this! Count on me!
