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I ******* hate Sweden!

And so began our Swedish odyssey... The following is set between the 25th and 28th of February 2006, events occur in real time. Beep...beep...beep.. DAY 1 The country didn't instantly warm to us and it wasn't the sub-zero temperatures. We flew into Skavsta airport deftly avoiding the flying sharks on the way over. Jess was instantly in dreamland, with so much powdery white stuff around we thought we'd flown to to colombia by mistake! Scabhole isn't exactly local to the capital so we embarked on a short (long) bus trip to Stockholm and were greeted by the incredibly exciting and rare sight of an Ikea store - in Sweden!! Whats next, we all thought, a Volvo?? We checked into our five-star hotel (***** count 'em) and immediately decided to pay several visits to the seventh and eight floors all the while accompanied by a strange voice intoning LO-BAY. As soon as the novelty of being human yoyos wore off we dumped the luggage and formulated a plan of action. Since