Day 65 Traveling to Sarajevo
This day was a travel day again, usually these are not really something I write about but going through Bosnia turned out to be a quite emotional ride…
First getting out of Split… I took a few short cuts through small pathways and suddenly I was attacked by this huge dog… luckily I managed to jump just outside the reach of his line… so his jaws snapped shut in mid air… phew!
Later on I got a ride with this truck that drove about 80 km/h on the small mountain road with sharp turns (and a speed limit of 40). The big thing was not the crazy speed though, but to see all the bombed out houses in the landscape… there is so much destruction here… even in Sarajevo most houses still have bullet holes in the plaster… you can really feel it wasn’t long ago this country was in war.
The countryside in Split… or rather this is actually still in the city.. these people LOVE their vegetables…
This was the dog that jumped me… I had to go back and take a photo (on a safe distance)
The roads to Sarajevo where beautiful in the beginning… blue water… green trees and sand
They had signs warning for cows on the roads which I thought was funny to start with…
Then I realized why… there where cows walking over the roads here and there…
Later on the was a more common scenery… almost every second house was without a roof, and the ones still standing usually had big bullet holes in them.
More houses
I walked by a 5 star hotel in Sarajevo and saw a sign saying that you are not allowed to bring dogs … or GUNS into the hotel… kind of tells you where you are…
Day 56 to 64 sailing in Croatia
Sailing in Croatia was definitely an adventure especially since most of the crew where Polish which meant that both me and Dilman picked up a bit of a new vocabulary in Polish… quite fun!
The adventures ranged from going out in the evenings meeting cool people to sailing in hard weather and having fishing lines caught in the boat. (Luckily for us we had a full insurance on the boat with no cost… because when we got back to land they had to lift up the boat since we had gotten salt-water into the gear-box… it did happen quite often though the guys in the marina assured me…)
Dilman also made a Google map over our trip if anyone wants to see : http://tinyurl.com/lrs9uk
Electric wiring in Croatia… most of the streets where so small that you couldn’t have fitted a car into them even without the stairs…
Our boat
Me in the water… I have just saved my hat from drowning…
Dilman and Betty (one of the Polish girls on the trip)
Dilman in the cabin
Dilman trimming the sails 🙂
Me and my cool hat 🙂
More polish girls 🙂 
Coming up to a port
I love the colors on the water 🙂
Perhaps not shaved… but happy…
Sunset sky
The whole group… the guy bending down next to me is Chris… he was arranging the whole thing
Two guys and their cannon…
Dilman liking the view
Me being a bit sweaty… it WAS a very big climb…
Some people had really cool boats… like the wooden one behind me here… 
Me and two of the girls again
We are all having our heads down (the observant can see that this is my new profile picture on many places :-P)
Don’t mess with me… or I’ll hit you with my anchor… aaaargh!
The group in a tower
Me and Dilman climbing around on a playground in the middle of the night
The boat is leaning quite a lot…
Some streets where smaller than others 🙂
Us posing again, this time at night
We experiment with the self timer in the harbor… or boat is the one behind us with the light.
Me sailing when it is leaning a bit… yeeehaa 🙂
That guy looks quite happy…
Yet another harbor at night… and yes… they where more beautiful in reality…
Dilman by Sirius, our boat.
Our boat in the air
And this was the reason… loads of fishing line caught inside the propeller and gearbox…
Leaving the boat area with my new backpack
In the old palace area in Split… the moon looked quite cool
Dilman on a square in Split… with cool background
We found a band playing by the water… I am in the front dancing with a girl
The same girl the day after… turned out she was selling her own stuff on the square
Me and Dilman caught on a fishing hook
Split… quite a beautiful place
Going to a MC-club festival in the night… it was hard rock all the way 🙂
They even had pole dancers performing
The lights in the background is on the other side of the ocean… yea the festival was on the beach.
The street sellers that I became friends with in Split
One of the attractions they had was a carousel for the kids… driven by manual labor.
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 🙂
Day 25 and 26 cocktail in Linz, playing with LEGO and going to the cinema
In the evening when I came to Linz I was invited for a cocktail by some local CS-girls, was really nice company and I even got a massage from two of the girls at the same time 😛 On Wednesday I did some sightseeing with my host. We went to a technical museum where I did everything from playing with LEGO, seeing the universe in 3D and writing the word “couchsurfing” using only my eyes :-D. They had a machine to write text with brainwaves too but the guy operating it was off that day unfortunately… After this we went and saw the new Harry Potter movie (my host worked at the Cinema so we got free tickets and all the popcorn we could eat :-P)
Cocktail time with Melanie and her two CS-guests from Italy
Massage from Melanie and Uli (my host)
Outside a museum in cool blue colors in the night 🙂
Some girls that were taking tickets at the cinema… I tried to recruit them to CS 😀
Yeeeay… LEGO 😀
Day 23 to 25 Munich and arrival in Linz
Hi guys, First sorry that the pictures where gone for a few days… did an experiment on the blog that didn’t turn out that well.. they should all be back now though 🙂
Spent Sunday-Tuesday this week in Munich meeting a lot of nice people, going to beer-gardens and even doing some tourism! (found a free tour :-P)
Have had a quite interesting hitchhiking day today from Munich to Linz. The day started with that three really cute lawyer student girls picked me up just outside Munich… they took me to a gas-station where two “hippies” picked me up in their flower-power inspired truck… they drove me all the way to Salzburg where I was picked up by a Romanian car-sales man… the car he drove was perhaps not in PERFECT condition (the breaks kind of didn’t work, the exhaust-pipe almost fell of and the gear-box had a very interesting sound when you changed gears…) but he drove me all the way outside Linz where a young mother picked me up and drove me into the centre of the city…
Oh, and continue to write comments, it is always fun to read them!
Marco, my first CS-host in Munich
Some guys riding on the everlasting wave on the river in central Munich… kind of cool!
‘Me and Chris (my second host in Munich) having dinner in a beer-garden… I hope you notice we even had radishes (healthy stuff :-P) to our pretzels…
Just arrived in Linz… and what is the first I see… well some girls doing some cool street-art… of course I take a picture 😀
