Oslo to Gothenburg to Kiel

Spending to much time on the road means this is gunna happen at least once, ROCKOUT ROADTRIP PHOTOSHOOT!

It's been a few days since this has been updated. Ill try to fill in as many details as I can remember. We spent a day in Gothenburg where we planned to go to the oldest amusement park in Europe there, but it was closed for the day. So we had to find some other touristy things to do. Jannik wanted to visit this Maritimes Museum, which I thought wouldn't be that exciting, but we went. I was pleasantly surprised there, they had a legit Swedish Destroyer and Submarine. WE toured both and it was super cool seeing one in real life, beats seeing them on TV by a mile. After we left Gothenburg we went up to Oslo, Norway. Tried to get into the city early to see some sites but that really didn't work out for us. We were able to find a campsite and then had to haul to get to this 630 hockey game in a nearby town. We watched Oslo's team, Valerenga take on Lorenskog (it would be the equivalent of Smithers playing Houston). The game was pretty good, it was really good to watch some hockey again. We were cheering for the Oslo team cause we read that there were some Canadians playing for them, so we got a lot of glares from the people around us when they scored. But they ended up losing and we bailed early pretending to be really upset that they lost. Spent the night and had to head back in the morning, kinda wished we could spend a few more days there in Oslo. It was a nice port city, very scenic and all that jazz. But then we made it back to Gothenburg on Friday night and booked us a hostel, for the first time in a week we weren't all sandwiched in a 2 man tent with no mattresses. Went out and hit the town that night, went to the amusement park we weren't able to go to before and hit all the rides, it was a good time. Bunch of good roller coasters there that really scared Jannik, haha, okay maybe just one but we all had a blast. Then we went out to hit the town but it turned out to be a disappointment and I ended up in Subway watching some recorded 2005 playoff hockey. Haha, it made my night though. The next day we had a few hours to kill before our ferry left to take us back to Kiel so we went to this Universeum. Like science world meets a zoo. I think Kevin and Jannik had WAY to much fun there. Anyways, we jumped on our 5 o'clock ferry and realized we had to be the youngest people on that entire ferry. But we made the best of it I guess, haha old boogie dancing was the only event open so we had some fun. Arrived back in Kiel at 9 am and then headed over to Jannik's pad for some much needed rest. It was good to just hang out without having to stress about finding campsites and cooking and stuff. But now we are getting ready to head out again, fun trip overall.

Sweden Baby, Sweden

First things first, you go to Sweden, you stop at IKEA. It's mandatory, haha. We got a few funny looks but we would have gotten more if the store wasn't under construction.

Okay, so we left Copenhagen on Monday afternoon and headed towards Sweden. It was only a 30 min drive after taking the 11km bridge/tunnel, which was nice. The first city was Malmo which is in the south, we found some information and then heading up north a ways to find out campsite. We really lucked out cause the site that we found must have just shut down for the season and there were only a handful of campers there. We found this killer spot by the beach on the ocean and when we arrived the sun was just setting and I was able to snap off some killer photos of it. I'll upload them later when I get a chance of editing them properly. Jannik made friends with this German fellow and his gf who where on a biking vacation, they came over to our site for some socializing. It was a really good start to the Swedish leg of the trip. Then yesterday we had to put in a few km if we wanted to reach Gotenburg today, so we made it aways and then set up camp. But this wasn't as easy as we hoped, we drove around looking at so many sites that were closed and had no camping signs posted, it got super frustrating and we had to settle for this place across the street from a campsite. It wasn't to bad and we were able to make the best of it, nothing really exciting happening.

Boredom at Night + Fancy Camera and iPod = A pretty cool picture!

Denmark

We left Kiel on Saturday afternoon-ish, and headed north to Denmark. It wasnt much of a trip a few hours and we were in Copenhagen, Denmarks capital. Went to this hostel, DanHostel in the downtown and checked in, it was the biggest hostel both me and Kevin have ever seen. Spent some time touring around looking at the city. It is quite an interesting old city, filled with statues and palaces it defiantly has some history to it. Just spent most of the night wandering and looking nothing to exciting. Sunday we did a whole lot of exploring but not really on purpose, we drove all around looking for a campsite that we could stay at for the night. We didn't really find one that we were comfortable with so we starting heading back inside the city to return to our hostel, unhappy cause we didn't want to pay 3 or 4 times the amount of a hostel when we were prepared to camp. Luckily on our way back we found a nice campsite almost downtown and stayed there. We wanted to have some fun so we were looking all over for something to do, found this ad that said Copenhagen was having its very own Oktoberfest, and today was the last day. So we wondered over to the park where it was held, and it was done, over, kaput. But to compensate it didn't look like it was very good anyways, there was like 1 beer hall and like 2 stands, really pathetic. So we returned to the campsite and just hung out and ate some food, pretty un-excited stuff. But today we were able to do some touristy things which made us feel like we accomplished something in that city. Wandered about and saw some old palaces and churches. Then we headed over to the part of the city where its like, how would u describe it...Hippie-town-minus-the-police-presence. Its called Freetown Christiania, were the gov't and police have very little control over, the people live there for free, don't pay taxes and just squat almost. It's probably got some interesting history there, I really didnt look into it, but it was kind of cool. Then we packed up our bags and everything and headed north again to Sweden...

I'm sitting in a library right now so I can't really edit and upload photos, but when the chance arises I will.