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I haven't really updated for about a week since I was doing a lot of moving and moving around :) So I'm going to keep this recount of past events as concise as I can.
While I visited David and Linda we listened to some techno music, watched some movies, walked around town and mainly had a lot of laughs. Next time I visit them, I'll have to challenge Linda to an MtG duel :P. Then, they put me on the train to Gothenburg and we said out goodbyes.
Did I mention I love trains? well, I do. So I really enjoyed the 3 hour ride to Gotherburg. I took quite a lot of Landscape pictures (which I will upload in the next media dump). I got off the train at the Nils Erikson Terminal (familiar place, woohoo) and set out to find Tram #2 to Brunnsgatan (Which ended up being quite nearby). A few short moments after I got off the tram I met with Rickard Wikstrom (aka sevenfingers) and we went to grab some sushi. Sushi was very nice and we went home. Home was good.
I got the nice couch as a bed (very appropriate for couch surfing) and took over the coffee table as my workstation. I played some DotA while Rickard finished up his work project and then Rickard, Lotta (Rickard's gf) and I set out to walk around the unfamiliar city (unfamiliar to all of us since they only moved there from Boden about a week before) and drink. And drink we have. First we went to the Texas Longhorn and had spare-ribs with some Samuel Adams. Then we went to a cheap pub and had beers (and the occasional Vodka Redbull).
After we got a bit tipsy we decided to look for cool hangout places around town, so we started walking around. Asking some people around, we got some intel on a place called Sticky Fingers which was supposed to be hip place to be, so we started looking for it. After about 15 minutes of walking we started asking people where it is - it was apparently quite close - and entered it. Entrence cost 100SEK and the drinks weren't that cheap. The music was nice most of the time (Rock stuff) but the crowd, oh the crowd.
We assume this: Once upon a time there was a hip young place called Sticky Fingers and it was good. All the young people enjoyed getting shitfaced and dance to loud music. Then, a few pedophiles heard of the place and came to pick up the young people. And to make a long story short, the place was full of 40+ people with people younger than me nowhere to be found - eek.
After drinking some more there, we decided it's best to head out home and so we started walking. In the habit of making long stories short I'll just say that apparently Rickard lives in a secret neighborhood since no one knew where it is and we ended up going in circles around the neighborhood before some random person pointed out that we just need to take a left at some turn to get to familiar ground. Home was good again.
The next day we went to the movies to see Inglourious Bastards, which was pretty awesome except for the part where around 60% of the damn movie is in either German or French and the subtitles were in Swedish ... grrr. We got home, picking up a DVD of The Man (quite funny) and watched that. And to seal the day, I watched Disctrict 9 before going to sleep. Now just add a lot of walking around to this paragraph and it sums up my day pretty accurately.
Okay, this looks long enough. Soon will follow a Media post and after that the recount of my last days in Gothenburg (which were pretty awesome).
Until then, WRITE MOAR COMMENTS :P
Nathan Dortman
haha, nice recap! Hope the trip went well to US and that we could go to Liseberg and grab those beers when you come back next time!
ReplyDeletenice of you to write. i've gotten used to much more frequent posts. are you in the states already? its hard to keep up.
ReplyDeletewrite more,
take more pictures of yourself,
and everytime you drink, drink for me as well - you have to have some drunkenness stories from this trip
peace and love
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