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copenhagen report..

Christmas Eve. I've wasted the past 3 days trying to plan a ski trip that I cant afford. Its 'bout 4 in the evening, and I got no real plans for Christmas. Got a million tabs open in firefox, ski places that got no snow yet. Sriram messages on msn sayin he's gettin bored in Stockholm. In bout 1 minute, ive decided to dump Uppsala and head to Stockholm. (also, ive gotten wind of an upcoming roadtrip, and ideas are formulating). Within half an hour, im all packed and ready to leave. I catch the next bus to Uppsala central. Immediatly, my plans are smashed. There are no trains running on Christmas Eve. Now what. The bus station is 2 mins away, so I walk there, and luckily, thrs 1 bus at 7pm. Now its 5pm. What to do. Half an hr i waste walkin around the town centre. Its barren and deserted. No christmas spirit yet. After all, its still 5pm. Next 1.5 hrs I spend playing VRally 3d on my fone. God bless 3d phone graphics engines and James Hetfields voice. Finally its 7 and in 1 hr, im at Stockholm central and in another 20 minutes, in Sriram's room. We start thinking of our options. Food. Spaghetti. Borat. We search online for car rental places. One is open on christmas. So its decided, me sriram, rameez n carl will head down to copenhagen for a coupla days. After spending some time researching we goto sleep. Next morn we're up early and all of us meet up and head to the rental place at Stockholm Central. Its shut. Awesome. So i call the number on the door, and it turns out, that the Arlanda branch is open. So we get a train ticket to Arlanda. AFTER that i think its a good idea to find out if there are cars available. There are and I dont get beaten up by the other 3 guys. So we reach Arlanda. The renting goes smooth, and I test drive the car around the parking lot. All ok. Sriram drives us back to stockholm and takes an earlier exit. we spend half an hour getting on and off the highway taking all wrong exits. Finally we're back at sriram's room. Final packing an we meet up at the car. I'm driving now. We pick up Rameez from lappis and food from COOP and our roadtrip officially starts. All roads lead to Copenhagen. Actually, there's just 1 highway, E4 that goes all the way down to copenland.

The car drives well. 2.0 litre automatic 4 door good music decent heating Volkswagen Jetta. The drive goes real smooth, and i keep the speed at bout 100-120 kmph. Carl's the navigator for almost the entire trip. He's decent with the map. Sriram is good with eating chips with taco sauce and earning state board points. Rameez is good with sleeping silently in the back. And im good with the driving. I self appoint myself as primary driver. We drive and drive and drive some more. Exchanging drivers me and Sriram. Sriram cant keep the damn speed down, so Im officially the backseat driver, constantly nagging him. Hehe. I can barely get any rest in the back, cos im more interested in the amount we're breaking the speed limit by. The drive is uneventful in a good way. We hit Copenhagen finally at bout 10ish. It takes us bout 1 hr of driving around getting lost and we finally find the hostel. 3 beds and 4 ppl. So i slime in unnoticed and now i cant leave the hostel, cos ill get caught coming in. Anyway the other 3 leave to get cash from a remotely located ATM. Im SO tired cant stay awake any longer. Anyway these guys get back and they got plans to get dinner and go around. I got no strength, so I have some cheeze bread banana coke dinnerish thing and sleep. The weird thing bout this place is there's no lock on the door from inside. But u see, ive seem Conspiracy Theory, and in that the guy balances a bottle upside down on the door knob, cos he's slightly paranoid. So i balance a can of deodrant and im off to neverland. Few hrs later, the can falls down, an these guys are back. Everyone crashes, sriram on the floor. Hehe. Next morning, we gotta shift to the 4 beds so i keep a low key, and these guys chek us into the other room. After a COLD bath (damn showers) we guys finally hit town and im the primary driver again. We drive around and reach Storget street, the place where u gotta walk. So we walk and walk and see all the shut shops. Me an sriram hit a chinese buffet, and its nice. Carl and rameez are patronizing KFC cos there's no KFC in stockholm. We walk around summore and reach the car. Sparks start flying. Carl wants to go back and rest for a while cos tomorrow we're driving back. Sriram wants to go see the little mermaid. Me and rameez are fine with nething, actually i want to rest too. Finally i take a look at the map, and decide to drive down to mermaid. We see the mermaid sitting on a rock and head back to the hostel. I barely sleep altho carl is totally gone. Sriram and Rameez head back to see Christiania. Apparently it was nice. Next time. After wasting some time, we decide to goto HRC for dinner. Dinner was okok. HRC Munich was MUCH better. Anyway, i convince the guy at the shop to reopen shop so i can buy the pin. Collection's upto 4 now excluding the stockholm shirt. Then we waste some more time looking for some pub. We get there and that place got no oxygen left. We goto another pub later and thats boring too. Finally me an Carl decided to head back and crash, and Sriram and Rameez want to stay out till late.

We get back, play a coupla games of pool and crash. Sriram and Rameez get in at 5am. Idiots. Next morn, got no courage to take that cold bath again, so we hit town again, cos i wanna drive thru Christiania once. We get slightly lost so we stop for an overpriced breakfast. Soon, we hit the road again, heading back to the bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden. After the first break an hr and a half later, there's a big controversy if Sriram shud be allowed to drive. Me and carl interrogate him, and it turns out, the alcohol content still in him is enuf to not let him drive. So Carl takes over, and i navigate. He gets the hang of it pretty soon. The weather's nice on the way back. No fog. Me and Carl alternate. 7 hrs later or so, we're finally back at Stockholm, and since carl's been driving for 2 hrs plus i ask him to take an exit. Bad idea. We get lost, so we head back to the highway, and finally reach stockholm. Everyone is stone tired. Carl and rameez head bak to their places, and me an sriram grab some pizza. Finally we crash too.

Next morn, I somehow wake sriram up and we drive up to Arlanda to return the car. I catch the bus to Uppsala and Sriram takes the train back. Dead tired, i crash.

Ive driven 700km+ in 3 days and its quite a personal achievement. Got some pics and videos along the way. Its been a good christmas break. driving 650 km to copenhagen, and 650 back. Total we racked up about 1500km. Its been a crazily last minute planned trip. Its been fun. Its been tiring. Its been totally worth it. Its been crazy, if u count the amount of illegal turns, parkings, reversings ive made throughout. Hehe... Thats all for now. Signing off.


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