Day 44 to 55 back in Sweden
On day 44 I was down with a really high fever, around 39-40 degrees and a doctor classified me as having the Swine flu (later on we found out that he was probably wrong… and they never took any tests so…)
This meant that I spent a couple of days in bed sleeping most of the time, when the weekend came I went to my summerhouse Långvind, about 3 hours north from Stockholm and spent a week there. First with some CS friends and then with my parents chopping wood and stuff.
My summerhouse and some of all the sticks that I had to chop up…
More chopping up!
The house… (my mother was playing around with a wide angle lens for this photo)
My father sharpening the motor saw… we took down quite a lot of trees during the days we spent there…
Day 43 Picnic in Stockholm
I arranged a small picnic when I got home and met up with some old friends… was great to see them all again! After that we went to a outdoor cinema-event in the evening… magic!
The picnic at Djurgården
One more…
The film festival… observe the sleeping bag… in Sweden it gets quite cold in the night 🙂
Day 42 Dilman’s birthday
This Saturday I flew home to Sweden to wish my best friend a happy birthday… we had a calm night and met up with some good friends…
At the restaurant…
Day 40 to 41 Sziget Festival Budapest
Long time since update, here comes some pictures from the Sziget festival in Budapest. Was a really awesome festival where I met a lot of fun people… I have realized I LOVE festivals…its like a completely different world! I was also lucky enough to be able to get a place to crash with two nice CS-girls so I could stay there the whole time 🙂
Afterwards I was supposed to take a flight to Sweden from Bratislava which turned out to be a bit adventurous. The day started with me not finding my pants so I had to look for them at the lost and found station at the Festival. This made me miss my public transportation to the city so I had to take a taxi. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough money and my credit-cards where empty (had forgotten to move money to them) so I only got to three kilometers from the station… then I had to run the last part with my backpack. I did make it on time though (thanks to my GPS who took me on the right route!) and boarded the train. There I put my alarm to bell 15 minutes before arrival and then I crashed to sleep (had not been sleeping very much the last couple of days during the festival).
I suddenly wake up from a lot of people stirring around in the train and realize I am at the Bratislava train station (I need to get a better alarm clock!). I run for the door but they close JUST as I get up to them and the train start moving… this is when I realize that my wallet has been stolen while I slept… (no worries, I had spent all my money on the taxi anyway and I didn’t keep any credit cards or something like that in it anyway…) but hmm… now I am sitting on a express train going away from my airport without money in the middle of Slovakia. At this time I had a choice… either I could be upset that everything was going bad and i probably would miss my flight, OR I could decide that it was a pretty cool adventure, where I was discovering something completely new and that I was pretty happy about travelling around… besides nothing would become better from being grumpy anyway…
I chose the second one, started laughing and joking with my fellow passengers about it who all became quite cheerful, 45 minutes later I jumped off at the next station (it was an express train) and found that I had 13 euro still laying around in my backpack. I managed to buy a train ticket for a ride back to Bratislava for 2.15 € and then the airport coaches cost another 0.50 € to the airport (love eastern European countries :-D). I managed to get on my flight and got a nice ride back into Stockholm from Skavsta by some cool guys in a cabriolet…. nice!
The ting tings playing
Die Toten hosen… really nice to go to with a group of Germans… they kind of increased the experience 🙂
Some of the CS:ers at Sziget posing
Fatboy slim 
The girls I was staying with
In the tent… 
Meeting up with Adri (from South Africa, who is living in Sweden) in Budapest… yea… that was complicated to write too 😉 
My tent girls and one of the CS:ers who was organizing our camp.
Day 37 to 39 Exploring Budapest and surroundings
Back in Budapest. Have met quite a few CS:ers on different pub nights (about every night since I came :-D) and have also done some sightseeing to castles in the area and bobsleighing down mountains… not to mention our visit to Slovakia for some food 🙂 or dancing in the cellars of the castle labyrinth in Budapest.
Dancing in the labyrinth
Cs:ers are meeting on Sunday
Doing some sightseeing with CS:ers, guided by Andras.
A bar in Budapest… many places had pieces of bath-tubs as chairs… quite… ehm… modern 😛
More party pics from Budapest CS-meetings
Thomas (a C:er in Budapest) brought us up to a mountain with a beautiful view of all of Budapest… was really cool to be up there… (although all the couples standing there making out might have been a bit annoyed about our photo-sessions 😉
The view of Budapest from the castle area in daylight
Me in the labyrinth hanging out with a… ehm… eh, mummy?
More art in the labyrinth, a horse, man or a pillar?
I think someone is in love…
We look like cool gangsters… ehm… or perhaps not 😛
Ready to go down the track with the bob-sleighs…
Proof that we survived 😀
In a castle with a beautiful view
Day 30 to 36 Canoeing on the Danube
I went on a really fun trip on the Danube together with 70 other couchsurfers, it was really awesome… met so many cool people, learnt how to steer the canoes, had water fights, learnt to dance tribal dances, jumped from swing-tires, searched for Gypsy festivals, danced, swam, paddled, tented and so forth…
Dancing the tribal dance
Ahava playing Proclaimers song 500 miles for us
Laying in Sandra’s lap looking at the stars
If it’s cold, keep warm! (Three guys in one poncho…)
Alternative 2: try to fit two people into one Jacket…
A dragon boat… we usually had much smaller ones though… but it was cool with the drums on this one!
Stopping in a city to do some sightseeing…
When you paddle a lot your muscles become sore… and then you need a massage train 🙂
One of the camps… observe the watchtower 😀
Getting ready for water fights!
The aim was to fill the other canoe with water…
And then they flip over 😀
Kitchen team… pay special attention to Lena’s goggles when cutting onion 🙂
We found a big haystack on a farmers field and decided to for some exploring 😀
Weston demonstrating how high up we where… it was a clear night with full moon btw.
Me laying on the top of the Haystack.
We found a statue of a canoe… of course we had to paddle! 😛
Last day at train station…
Day 27 to 29 Vienna
Hi guys, sorry that I am a bit late with this update… have been without internet for a while and have done loads of fun stuff… will share some of it here now 😀
On Friday I went to a lake with some girls from Vienna, we had a great time playing Jungle stick, beach ball and swimming in the water.
On Saturday I went to a Barbecue on an island together with my Host Eli, lots of fun and nice people there… and waaaay to much food 🙂