So, this trip was all about for one thing. To get the car to the Nordschleife and back in one peace. and O'h boy what a road trip we had. I would not change away a single day or driven kilometers. Of course you might read our whining about some certain country but thats one part of the road trip. To go and do something you have never done, its not always nice, instead it could be surprising or total what the fuck butt rape. Nice, funny, surprising, wtf moments, All the same; good memories.
Thanks to Jari about the trip, it is sometimes hard to find proper company for this kinda trip but have to say now it worked very well.
Top moments for me was of course the ring, and also this awesome visit to the wine yard. Somehow one moment has stayed in my mind. It happend in Flensburg where we were having our noon coffee there before entering to Denmark. In the gas station, one guy was filling his lorry, paid the petrol and went to lorry's cabin. The lorry didn't start. He tried again, nothing. Then he started to yell to the lorry and hit very hard to the steering wheel. I almost died after seeing this, laughed like hell and guess what, after this big ass slam, the lorry started. It was like from some stupid movie the whole thing. Yea, seems not a big thing, but if you have a lot of these, you have a nice story there.
And one thing this journey clearly clarified: Not gonna ever drive motorcycle license.
torstai 21. heinäkuuta 2011
Tanskasta Turkuun 20.-21.7.2011
Hi!
So, as you can guess, the night in this Hostel was horrible. The barrack was so poorly sound proofed that no other. Every single idiot walking in and out woke me up of course. So, I was more than happy when my alarm clock woke me up 5:30am. Gears up and on the road! After passing the border, pretty sun was rising and I had 650km to complete after Stockholm. Like I wrote earlier, driving through sweden was boring but have to correct that a bit, it was actually pretty nice to drive with steady pace of 110km on those very good motorways of sweden.
Shit was smelling from the farms and the major time the road was almost empty. Few breaks on the way and after 1pm I was at Stockholm. Tried to get a ticket to Helsinki ferry but it was booked. I had already Turku ticket so that was the only choice. At least I had some time to walk into town, chill there in that beautiful and warm summer day. Tip of the day: Go to the stockholm if you want to see pretty city, forget the Copenhagen.
In some point the ferry arrived and I had ticket only to the boat, so no cabin this time. Never travelled without cabin and now I have done it twice, the first and the last time. It was total pain. I read some magazine on the boat and around 1am tried to get some sleep on the wall. It was cold and uncomfortable and I woke up like every 30min. After 5 I decided that enough is enough, not gonna try anymore and there was some other passenger also awake. So I took a chance to have an early talk. So the 2h went and it was time to say hello to Turku.
Turku was Turku. Never Liked the place, dont know why but maybe its the common finnish attitude against that city. It felt that the motorway never starts, while I was driving through the city and when it started, it was 80kmh limits, mostly because the road was in very, I mean very shitty condition. The last 150km of this road trip was nasty; it was raining like hell, in some point I couldn't drive more than 60kmh because lack of visibility. In any case, I was at home around 11am. Done.
So, as you can guess, the night in this Hostel was horrible. The barrack was so poorly sound proofed that no other. Every single idiot walking in and out woke me up of course. So, I was more than happy when my alarm clock woke me up 5:30am. Gears up and on the road! After passing the border, pretty sun was rising and I had 650km to complete after Stockholm. Like I wrote earlier, driving through sweden was boring but have to correct that a bit, it was actually pretty nice to drive with steady pace of 110km on those very good motorways of sweden.
Shit was smelling from the farms and the major time the road was almost empty. Few breaks on the way and after 1pm I was at Stockholm. Tried to get a ticket to Helsinki ferry but it was booked. I had already Turku ticket so that was the only choice. At least I had some time to walk into town, chill there in that beautiful and warm summer day. Tip of the day: Go to the stockholm if you want to see pretty city, forget the Copenhagen.
In some point the ferry arrived and I had ticket only to the boat, so no cabin this time. Never travelled without cabin and now I have done it twice, the first and the last time. It was total pain. I read some magazine on the boat and around 1am tried to get some sleep on the wall. It was cold and uncomfortable and I woke up like every 30min. After 5 I decided that enough is enough, not gonna try anymore and there was some other passenger also awake. So I took a chance to have an early talk. So the 2h went and it was time to say hello to Turku.
Turku was Turku. Never Liked the place, dont know why but maybe its the common finnish attitude against that city. It felt that the motorway never starts, while I was driving through the city and when it started, it was 80kmh limits, mostly because the road was in very, I mean very shitty condition. The last 150km of this road trip was nasty; it was raining like hell, in some point I couldn't drive more than 60kmh because lack of visibility. In any case, I was at home around 11am. Done.
tiistai 19. heinäkuuta 2011
Omfg Denmark, again 19.7.2011
Alright, so Denmark is the shit country between sweden and germany and probably it is wealth because they rip off tourists crossing the damn country. At least from border to border it is only around 300km so in best case scenario, you can pass it under four hours through motorway. Of course the minimum Denmark fee is 30e + 40e. That includes two bridge fees and only way to avoid them, is to fly over the country, which is very recommendable way to solve this problem. However, if you have heard stories that Copenhagen is very pretty place that its one must see place, and because of that your trip plan is somehow binded to Copenhagen (Jari will take a plane from here to Finland this wednesday), you are doomed.
Ok, back to road trip.. So we drove the 300km to Copenhagen and it was very, very boring. Absolutely nothing to see and radio channels here are only talkative, not much music on air. Yesterday we booked cheapest possible 2person accommodation from Copenhagen. Last time we took the Cabin Metro which was around 110e/night and was very crappy, you can find post about it earlier. So, we took this Danhostel Copenhagen Amager -place. One night was around 65e which sounded reasonable. The Hostel is located in same waste land than previous hotel and after awhile, we founded it.
So to the check-in and guess what. Chick asks that do we have our own bed sheets.
-"Well hell no we don't have why..?"
-"How about towels, do you have towels for your own?"
-"ää.. no.."
-"Would you like to rent bed sheets and towels?"-she asks.
-"well.. I guess we.."
-"ok, do you have our membership card?"
-"No we don't have, and we don't want to ha.."
-"Its cheaper for you to get a guest card so its only few crones more"
And after this conversation the cheap 65e per night room became to not so cheap 96e room. But
hey! At least we have fucking sheets and towels now! So, after getting the keys we were, again as usual waiting some candies on the bed but as you could expect, dear reader, we got none. Previously I was writing that was the Cabin Metro hotel a joke. No it wasn't, this place is a epic fåcken joke as you can see from the pictures. Of course now you can comment that "hey guys, stop whining, its a Hostel, it should be shitty like that". Yes. But we paid 100e from this! 30e would have been the correct amount. But thats the spirit here, in Denmark. Fricking hostell/hotell hell on god damn wasteland. Just wondering how expensive are those poshy places in the city center. I had better bed in the army for sake!
So because we were hungry, we took the metro which should have been 400meters away,
dunno what sort of ruler they used but it was around 1,5km away. Overpriced single ticket to town and searching some food. We took some Italian restaurant and the pizza was crap. And too pricey. Visa is not accepted here in every place, I somehow understand that in smaller places in Germany but in the capital city of great Denmark! Gimme a break will ya! Tons of different things to whine now but Im too tired to continue for now. Have to wake up around 5am and turn the car towards Sweden and Stockholm. There is a ferry waiting me.
One good thing about Denmark, with proper planning, you don't have to stay here even one night.
Oh btw! This place has 3 stars! Wondering how shitti is the 1 star hostel hell then..
Ok, back to road trip.. So we drove the 300km to Copenhagen and it was very, very boring. Absolutely nothing to see and radio channels here are only talkative, not much music on air. Yesterday we booked cheapest possible 2person accommodation from Copenhagen. Last time we took the Cabin Metro which was around 110e/night and was very crappy, you can find post about it earlier. So, we took this Danhostel Copenhagen Amager -place. One night was around 65e which sounded reasonable. The Hostel is located in same waste land than previous hotel and after awhile, we founded it.
So to the check-in and guess what. Chick asks that do we have our own bed sheets.
-"Well hell no we don't have why..?"
-"How about towels, do you have towels for your own?"
-"ää.. no.."
-"Would you like to rent bed sheets and towels?"-she asks.
-"well.. I guess we.."
-"ok, do you have our membership card?"
-"No we don't have, and we don't want to ha.."
-"Its cheaper for you to get a guest card so its only few crones more"
And after this conversation the cheap 65e per night room became to not so cheap 96e room. But
hey! At least we have fucking sheets and towels now! So, after getting the keys we were, again as usual waiting some candies on the bed but as you could expect, dear reader, we got none. Previously I was writing that was the Cabin Metro hotel a joke. No it wasn't, this place is a epic fåcken joke as you can see from the pictures. Of course now you can comment that "hey guys, stop whining, its a Hostel, it should be shitty like that". Yes. But we paid 100e from this! 30e would have been the correct amount. But thats the spirit here, in Denmark. Fricking hostell/hotell hell on god damn wasteland. Just wondering how expensive are those poshy places in the city center. I had better bed in the army for sake!
So because we were hungry, we took the metro which should have been 400meters away,
dunno what sort of ruler they used but it was around 1,5km away. Overpriced single ticket to town and searching some food. We took some Italian restaurant and the pizza was crap. And too pricey. Visa is not accepted here in every place, I somehow understand that in smaller places in Germany but in the capital city of great Denmark! Gimme a break will ya! Tons of different things to whine now but Im too tired to continue for now. Have to wake up around 5am and turn the car towards Sweden and Stockholm. There is a ferry waiting me.
One good thing about Denmark, with proper planning, you don't have to stay here even one night.
Oh btw! This place has 3 stars! Wondering how shitti is the 1 star hostel hell then..
Bye bye Germany! 19.7.2011
So, just like every journey, this one is also coming to its end. In last chapter we were in city of Kiel, which was nice place indeed. while exiting the city we visited to Kiel's canal, took few photos of it and headed to Denmark. So maybe it is time to sum the Germany. Lovely country, lovely small and medium size towns and very polite people everywhere. We really enjoyed every day there and Im sure that both of us will visit Germany again. Perhaps east Germany tour 2012? :) In any case, time to move on toward our common hate-country, Denmark. Those who does not know yet, last time when we visited this shit hole, it was totally ass rape. So let see how this second attempt goes…
maanantai 18. heinäkuuta 2011
Kiel 18.7.2011
Okedoke,
We selected this place called Kiel just because its near denmark border. We have had enough of
driving so far, longer sets have been 700km. For me its not a problem to drive longer trips, but for the passenger its different so today's around 400km was good set, so we dont have to drive helluva lot through Germany and Denmark. Kiel is a city with around 200 000 people living here and its a nice, pretty harbor place here in Germany. Nothing bad to say, hotel room is big and comfortable, hotel itself is nice, it has even sauna which we test drived with Jari. Well. The kiuas was pretty lousy but I guess it was ok what comes to german standards. Bought few bottles of german red wine and stuff.
Oh! and guess what!:) The wine farmer sent me an email with greetings and one beautiful picture of the wine yards, Ill share it with you now:) Love that place, gonna order some proper white wines from them for sure:)
We selected this place called Kiel just because its near denmark border. We have had enough of
driving so far, longer sets have been 700km. For me its not a problem to drive longer trips, but for the passenger its different so today's around 400km was good set, so we dont have to drive helluva lot through Germany and Denmark. Kiel is a city with around 200 000 people living here and its a nice, pretty harbor place here in Germany. Nothing bad to say, hotel room is big and comfortable, hotel itself is nice, it has even sauna which we test drived with Jari. Well. The kiuas was pretty lousy but I guess it was ok what comes to german standards. Bought few bottles of german red wine and stuff.
Oh! and guess what!:) The wine farmer sent me an email with greetings and one beautiful picture of the wine yards, Ill share it with you now:) Love that place, gonna order some proper white wines from them for sure:)
Köln and Münster
16.-18.7.2011
Köln
Alright, I have been day or two late in these blog updates but Ill try to take the gap back now. So In latest post we were in the wine farm.. So, after the lovely town at Mosel, we took our map on the car bonnet and decided to go to Köln. First big city of the road trip. Roof off and steady pace to Köln then. weather was ok, bit cloudy and we kept ok speed for the whole trip. Not much to tell, lunch in McDonalds and then to the hotel which was located bit side of the Köln, at least there was a train station near so we could get in and head into the town. The Hotel was cheap, around 55e for a night. Not much to tell about Köln. Of course the cathedral was very big and impressive, beautiful also but we were kind a, well, not satisfied about the place. Too big, too much crowd, just like any other big city on europe. So after few hours, back to hotel to get sleep. thats all about Köln.
Münster
Next day, which was rainy and cloudy, we decided to move only a bit to north direction, let say only 150km, into town called Münster. We took this town only because it had cheaper hotels than our other option, 50km further place called Osnabrück. But oh´boy it was a nice place. The hotel room was awesome (pics later) and the city was very pretty. Size of the city was, Id say something like Tampere in finland. We thought a moment to go to catholic service but then decided to for a beer instead nearby. So, there we were, chilling and relaxing with beer, watching the pretty evening and talking every sort of bullshit that evening. Last bus to the hotel went (20:30) so we took a cab back to hotel instead of trying to get there with nigh busses. Well, the taxi was as expensive than two bus ticks so not bad.
Münster was actually so nice place to be that I was thinking should we stay there another night but no, next day we left this pretty city and booked a hotel from place called Kiel, which is near Lübeck. This place is going to be the last city in germany, in this trip.
Köln
Alright, I have been day or two late in these blog updates but Ill try to take the gap back now. So In latest post we were in the wine farm.. So, after the lovely town at Mosel, we took our map on the car bonnet and decided to go to Köln. First big city of the road trip. Roof off and steady pace to Köln then. weather was ok, bit cloudy and we kept ok speed for the whole trip. Not much to tell, lunch in McDonalds and then to the hotel which was located bit side of the Köln, at least there was a train station near so we could get in and head into the town. The Hotel was cheap, around 55e for a night. Not much to tell about Köln. Of course the cathedral was very big and impressive, beautiful also but we were kind a, well, not satisfied about the place. Too big, too much crowd, just like any other big city on europe. So after few hours, back to hotel to get sleep. thats all about Köln.
Münster
Next day, which was rainy and cloudy, we decided to move only a bit to north direction, let say only 150km, into town called Münster. We took this town only because it had cheaper hotels than our other option, 50km further place called Osnabrück. But oh´boy it was a nice place. The hotel room was awesome (pics later) and the city was very pretty. Size of the city was, Id say something like Tampere in finland. We thought a moment to go to catholic service but then decided to for a beer instead nearby. So, there we were, chilling and relaxing with beer, watching the pretty evening and talking every sort of bullshit that evening. Last bus to the hotel went (20:30) so we took a cab back to hotel instead of trying to get there with nigh busses. Well, the taxi was as expensive than two bus ticks so not bad.
Münster was actually so nice place to be that I was thinking should we stay there another night but no, next day we left this pretty city and booked a hotel from place called Kiel, which is near Lübeck. This place is going to be the last city in germany, in this trip.
sunnuntai 17. heinäkuuta 2011
Wine and stuff
16th july 2011
Ok, so after thrilling moments of Nurburgring, we spent a nice evening in the village, ate some jäger snitchel or something and had a funny chat with the restaurant keeper guy. He spoke a bit of english and we spoke a bit of german. After that evening, the bar keeper probably speek a bit of finnish too:) Next night wasn't so nice, dogs were barking and cats were keeping also some noise there, of course 7am they started to slam church bells like hell. well, "maassa maan tavalla" like we say in Finland. The breakfast was fricking awesome, frau of the house really did the job! After Auf Wiedersehens we turned our car to some nice small town, name Kröv. The plan was to find a wine farm there.
After awhile we found one and it was so nice time there. Lady of the house didn't spoke english so he yelled to her son to do the business. So the guy, age around 12+ opened a bottle of wine to us to have some tastings, and it was very nice:) Soon the head of the family came and took another bottle for us and it was even better. It was so nice to be there, the family was so nice they really were proud of their products. So again, it wasn't a problem that we didn't had a common language, we were laughing and having good time with them, tasting and talking about wines as much as we could. And we bought as much of wine there as we could pack into the SLK, four bottles..
One point of this trip was to go to the smaller villages and towns, just go there and see what's happening. I can say that people there, in smaller places, are wonderful, so polite and understanding and smiling people that it is totally awesome. And, Im might be repeating myself now, common language is not needed, positive attitude is:) (basics of the language is still good to know)
Ok, so after thrilling moments of Nurburgring, we spent a nice evening in the village, ate some jäger snitchel or something and had a funny chat with the restaurant keeper guy. He spoke a bit of english and we spoke a bit of german. After that evening, the bar keeper probably speek a bit of finnish too:) Next night wasn't so nice, dogs were barking and cats were keeping also some noise there, of course 7am they started to slam church bells like hell. well, "maassa maan tavalla" like we say in Finland. The breakfast was fricking awesome, frau of the house really did the job! After Auf Wiedersehens we turned our car to some nice small town, name Kröv. The plan was to find a wine farm there.
After awhile we found one and it was so nice time there. Lady of the house didn't spoke english so he yelled to her son to do the business. So the guy, age around 12+ opened a bottle of wine to us to have some tastings, and it was very nice:) Soon the head of the family came and took another bottle for us and it was even better. It was so nice to be there, the family was so nice they really were proud of their products. So again, it wasn't a problem that we didn't had a common language, we were laughing and having good time with them, tasting and talking about wines as much as we could. And we bought as much of wine there as we could pack into the SLK, four bottles..
One point of this trip was to go to the smaller villages and towns, just go there and see what's happening. I can say that people there, in smaller places, are wonderful, so polite and understanding and smiling people that it is totally awesome. And, Im might be repeating myself now, common language is not needed, positive attitude is:) (basics of the language is still good to know)
lauantai 16. heinäkuuta 2011
Well hello nordschleife!
Ok,
So, like I wrote in previous post, we had to go to nordschleife before dropping luggages to hotel. I was excited when we entered the area, there is a small nurburg town which the road track surrounds. After awhile we found the place where to stop our car and buy the ticket. There was some time before the track opened so I took a look of cars there. GT3 911's, basic Bmw's, from normal everyday escort's to GT track cars. The track itself has a long history in motor racing. It was builded in 1920's and ever since it has been in racing use. When F1 started in 1950, nordschleife has been in schedule with few exceptions. In 1976 Niki Lauda almost died in a serious chrash there and that was end of the F1 era there, in green hell. In any case, this around 20km long track includes about 170 turns, blind curves and whatnot, they say that its the most dangerous race track, in the world.
So, I got the ring card, it was time to put the roof on, aircon to max freeze and hit the track. I have to say that I dont exactly remember much of the lap, it was so exciting to push there but the 1/3 part of the track I drove in a pack of four cars, Audi TT, some track clio and behind me there was a older 911, from 80's. And we really drove fast there, tires were screaming and we had a good racing lines there. Audi in front wasn't fast enough but I thought it was too dangerous to overtake in that section.
After about 7km, I felt that something happened in the car, power went down and the car didn't rev anymore, max speed was around 120-130kmh. Of course, engine overheated. Not too much, but over the limit (>100c) where the engine controller decides to cool down a bit. This happened because I was driving behind others and the Benz didn't get enough of fresh air to breath. Well, after awhile engine cooled down and gave the power back. Cornering was awesome, You took the car in to the corner, tires were screaming and you felt that its under control, its not oversteering nor understeering, it went nicely through the corners to next one.
Before going the track, I thought it might be horrible car to drive there, its soft, steering is bit slow and the seats does not provide enough support when cornering. But no, it was actually pretty confortable to drive faster on track like that. I didn't use stop watch, because timing makes you push more and more and I didn't want to go over the edge because of that for example. From the car clock, the time was something like 10-11min. Which is nice time for first timer.
The lap was totally awesome. I didn't take another one, because its very demanding for the car to drive there, or in race track in general. Its a huge stress for the engine, transmission, brakes, chassis and tires, and still I need to take the car back to Finland :) some say, that 1km on race track is equivalent of 100km of normal driving. Could be true. The green hell was worth of going. Probably I was smiling there all the time.
So, like I wrote in previous post, we had to go to nordschleife before dropping luggages to hotel. I was excited when we entered the area, there is a small nurburg town which the road track surrounds. After awhile we found the place where to stop our car and buy the ticket. There was some time before the track opened so I took a look of cars there. GT3 911's, basic Bmw's, from normal everyday escort's to GT track cars. The track itself has a long history in motor racing. It was builded in 1920's and ever since it has been in racing use. When F1 started in 1950, nordschleife has been in schedule with few exceptions. In 1976 Niki Lauda almost died in a serious chrash there and that was end of the F1 era there, in green hell. In any case, this around 20km long track includes about 170 turns, blind curves and whatnot, they say that its the most dangerous race track, in the world.
So, I got the ring card, it was time to put the roof on, aircon to max freeze and hit the track. I have to say that I dont exactly remember much of the lap, it was so exciting to push there but the 1/3 part of the track I drove in a pack of four cars, Audi TT, some track clio and behind me there was a older 911, from 80's. And we really drove fast there, tires were screaming and we had a good racing lines there. Audi in front wasn't fast enough but I thought it was too dangerous to overtake in that section.After about 7km, I felt that something happened in the car, power went down and the car didn't rev anymore, max speed was around 120-130kmh. Of course, engine overheated. Not too much, but over the limit (>100c) where the engine controller decides to cool down a bit. This happened because I was driving behind others and the Benz didn't get enough of fresh air to breath. Well, after awhile engine cooled down and gave the power back. Cornering was awesome, You took the car in to the corner, tires were screaming and you felt that its under control, its not oversteering nor understeering, it went nicely through the corners to next one.
Before going the track, I thought it might be horrible car to drive there, its soft, steering is bit slow and the seats does not provide enough support when cornering. But no, it was actually pretty confortable to drive faster on track like that. I didn't use stop watch, because timing makes you push more and more and I didn't want to go over the edge because of that for example. From the car clock, the time was something like 10-11min. Which is nice time for first timer.
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| "It was awesome!" |
perjantai 15. heinäkuuta 2011
Hello Nurburg!
As normal, when its a driving day, we woke up early and started the car around 9am. John Cleese in the navigator was already waiting the moment when he can, again, tell the "800m.. or half a mile.." joke to us. So we were going to south-west Germany this time. The target was a small village called Nachtsheim, near the nurburg(ring). Driving weather was kind a crappy, mostly rainy but the traffic itself was smooth. I was able to keep good pace and hit almost the limits of the car, 220kmh this time. Unfortunately some retard driver pulled out in front of me when I was passing him 220kmh while he was driving around 200kmh. That was a bit scary place..
We were in the Nachtsheim around 1:30pm, and everyplace was closed. So we decided to go city called Mayen to have some lunch. Normal lunch stuff and so on, nothing special to mention. While we were there, I noticed that the Nurburgring opening times were 5:15pm - 7:30pm instead of 7pm -> so, we decided to go immediatetly to famous nordschleife....
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| The green hell |
torstai 14. heinäkuuta 2011
Autostadt and Karting day
Today we went to Wolfsburg to see place called Autostadt. We decided not to take motorways this time, so through country side changing roads to the target. It was funny how the tarmac was unbelievable crappy in some point, but good like hell in another. Of course 100kmh limit on the roads, no matter how crappy it was. In any case Wolfsburg we ended up. Thanks Cleese.
This Autostadt is kinda home of Volkswagens and VAG thingies in general. First, of course we drove to Volkswagen factory parking place and after few minutes we noticed that this is not exactly the correct place. Well, after all we found the correct parking place. It was ok place to visit, nothing superb. There was chrome version of Bugatti Veyron and then few Audis and you even could try how does it feel to sit down in Skoda Yeti. VW show room was closed so can't tell anything for that.
If you buy a VW, you can pick it up yourself from this place, and there they were, proud owners of brand new Passat's and Golf's. It was actually funny to see how they were having a smile in their faces you could read "This is most likely the best day of my entire life". Oh, and there was also Lamborghini Miura which is very pretty car indeed.
After this Autostadt thing, we went to have Currywurst then back to Hildesheim via motorways where our hotel is located. Motorways was full packed because of road works so unfortunately it took pretty long time to get back.
In the evening, we went to local Karting track which was fun like hell. 20e for 3*10min and I have to say my hands are busted right now after this:)
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| Millionth VW (funny it was the beetle) |
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| Oih, beatiful Miura from 70's |
After this Autostadt thing, we went to have Currywurst then back to Hildesheim via motorways where our hotel is located. Motorways was full packed because of road works so unfortunately it took pretty long time to get back.
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| Ja Mäkeläinen |
To Germany
We started the car 8am in Copenhagen yesterday, was pretty damn rainy day but the motorway traffic was fairly good so we could keep up the good pace, not much to say about the Denmark part, just driving through the country, we didn't take the ferry connection. About noon we entered to Germany and naturally the driving culture changed a bit.
Immediately after passing the border, it was just like cows were released to the grass fields after loong winter and when the first nolimits mark came, people really pushed the pedal down. Its of course nice to have unlimited areas on the motorway but it really needs at least three lanes. If there are only two lanes, you have to scare lorries and other slower stuff to pull out on your way. Three lanes is always nicer, but it still needs helluva lot of space to drive 200kmh+ because still, its fricking mad feeling to pass other cars at speed difference of 80kmh+. Car was actually very good to drive in those speeds, side wind of course was bit annoying but otherwise, no worries.
But is it really faster to move from place a to b without limits. No its not. There is always someone faster or slower than you, and you have to pump the speed up and down all the time. you drive 3min 200kmh and after that you stand on the brake pedal and wait that the lorry takes over another lorry. Distressing I would say. Speed limits also makes the traffic smoother. But shit about that now. Hope I can nail the top speed tomorrow!
Immediately after passing the border, it was just like cows were released to the grass fields after loong winter and when the first nolimits mark came, people really pushed the pedal down. Its of course nice to have unlimited areas on the motorway but it really needs at least three lanes. If there are only two lanes, you have to scare lorries and other slower stuff to pull out on your way. Three lanes is always nicer, but it still needs helluva lot of space to drive 200kmh+ because still, its fricking mad feeling to pass other cars at speed difference of 80kmh+. Car was actually very good to drive in those speeds, side wind of course was bit annoying but otherwise, no worries.
But is it really faster to move from place a to b without limits. No its not. There is always someone faster or slower than you, and you have to pump the speed up and down all the time. you drive 3min 200kmh and after that you stand on the brake pedal and wait that the lorry takes over another lorry. Distressing I would say. Speed limits also makes the traffic smoother. But shit about that now. Hope I can nail the top speed tomorrow!
tiistai 12. heinäkuuta 2011
Time to move on
Ok,
So this was it, Copenhagen. They say that it is pretty, they say that it is fascinating, they say many things. I would say, bullshit. Damn expensive place, not even pretty city. Fun park was actually restaurant world with few fun park devices, thats all. And then the little mermaid. Well she was there, sitting on the rock and people were filming her, taking pictures where they were with her. Busses after busses came, yank tourists mainly. Its lovely story, Im not saying that but still, is this all this city can offer. After the picture taking, the host comes with raspberry Absolut vodka bottle and then they took a shot. "Dashwidanja äs vii sei hier in Denmark!". Someone pours the vodka away, on the flowers, "Id rather take Jack", he says.
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| There she is, the little mermaid. epic. |
Few words about the hotel
Noniin,
It is usually like playing roulette when you are booking a hotel. There is a nice picture about the hotel and some descriptions like "few kilometers from city center, free wlan, quiet and well equipped. And cheap." TWO ROOMS LEFT! BOOK NOW! Of fuck of fuck, of course Im gonna take it! And then, you check in, take the elevator, you start to think about those nice welcome chocolates what they usually offers and then you open the door and.. wtf? is this a joke?
Room is as big.. no smaller than what a convicted criminal gets in finland. Bathroom is bit smaller than smallest toilet in sweden ferrys, you also have to make your own bed ready for sleep, lol:D
In general very simple place, so called restaurant was like a bunker, concrete walls and stuff. But hey, it was cheap at least.
It is usually like playing roulette when you are booking a hotel. There is a nice picture about the hotel and some descriptions like "few kilometers from city center, free wlan, quiet and well equipped. And cheap." TWO ROOMS LEFT! BOOK NOW! Of fuck of fuck, of course Im gonna take it! And then, you check in, take the elevator, you start to think about those nice welcome chocolates what they usually offers and then you open the door and.. wtf? is this a joke?Room is as big.. no smaller than what a convicted criminal gets in finland. Bathroom is bit smaller than smallest toilet in sweden ferrys, you also have to make your own bed ready for sleep, lol:D
In general very simple place, so called restaurant was like a bunker, concrete walls and stuff. But hey, it was cheap at least.
maanantai 11. heinäkuuta 2011
A boat trip
Alright,
So yesterday we hit into the boat with Jari and what can I say, normal very boring boat trip over the sea. In this case it was more horrible than normal because of course should not drink that I can drive next day through Sweden. So, there we were, sober, watching when others were drunk like hell, doing stupid things and fighting with their husbands and wifes, while the kids cried next to them. hrr. Sea buffet was ok.
Next morning we woke up in Sweden and took the merc on the road, it was something like 600 to 700 kilometers of driving and I have to say, I really dont wait that day Im gonna drive the same route back:D I mean it was just like driving somewhere eastern finland, absolutely nothing to see. Good thing that it was motorway all the way so the speed was pretty ok. Luckily I had Jari to keep company, otherwise it would have been just too damn boring.
After Malmö, we entered to this awesome bridge, which is connecting Denmark and Sweden. I mean its one damn nice piece of bridge engineering, roof off from the car, and slowly drive over it, that was nice view indeed. (Ill try to add few pics about this day later).
So yesterday we hit into the boat with Jari and what can I say, normal very boring boat trip over the sea. In this case it was more horrible than normal because of course should not drink that I can drive next day through Sweden. So, there we were, sober, watching when others were drunk like hell, doing stupid things and fighting with their husbands and wifes, while the kids cried next to them. hrr. Sea buffet was ok.
Next morning we woke up in Sweden and took the merc on the road, it was something like 600 to 700 kilometers of driving and I have to say, I really dont wait that day Im gonna drive the same route back:D I mean it was just like driving somewhere eastern finland, absolutely nothing to see. Good thing that it was motorway all the way so the speed was pretty ok. Luckily I had Jari to keep company, otherwise it would have been just too damn boring.
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| well, a bridge |
perjantai 8. heinäkuuta 2011
A road trip
Ok,
One year has passed again and its time to have again, another trip to Europe. Last time we took a plane to Germany, rented a Kia and went to Austria and Slovenia. This time its a bit different. We are taking a car to Viking Line ferry 10 th of July, and the destination is Stockholm. From Stockholm next step is to get to the Denmark where we are going to spend couple of nights. After Copenhagen, to Germany, with no plans.
One year has passed again and its time to have again, another trip to Europe. Last time we took a plane to Germany, rented a Kia and went to Austria and Slovenia. This time its a bit different. We are taking a car to Viking Line ferry 10 th of July, and the destination is Stockholm. From Stockholm next step is to get to the Denmark where we are going to spend couple of nights. After Copenhagen, to Germany, with no plans.
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