Road Trip to Åre and Kiruna

I am finally back in Stockholm after a 6 days roadtrip(16/02/07 to 21/02/07) to Åre and Kiruna with crazy Rami, Pippo, Markus and Bram and back to stockholm. We were in Åre watching the Ski World Championship. The men slalom! It was amazing at those guys attack the slope with such agility and speed. haha I will put up some pictures after Markus ,Bram and Pippo send me some pictures of it. It was a great experience watching it LIVE. But it was extremely cold to be standing on the slope. My combat boots did well to keep my feet away from the cold, but I had a very big problem with it! It is damn slippery with those hard rubber under my feet! I fell so many times especially at the Waterfall near Åre that we visited.
The waterfall was beautiful, the water gushes down to the frozen lakes. Dudes... pictures will be uploaded soon to show you the lake and water fall.

Next after Åre, straight to Kiruna. We reached there like 7 plus, really late without any accomodation. But thanks to Rami, we finally got a conference room in Scandic to stay in. A luxury hotel for only 300krs per night and with breakfast. Wonderful man! It was a real nice stay there. We visited the Icehotel, the LKAB mine, and haha rented the Snow Scooter.

First night, it was nothing much. The highlight was Rami. haha we went to a big opening to try to watch the northern lights but we end up sliding with our station wagon( a volkswagon passat, really NICE). GUESS WHAT? crazy rami got the vehicle stuck at one of the side embankment. hahha and the rest of us hafta push the car to get the car out of the snow. thankfully the snow was soft so the car did not get damaged. thank GOD. But seriously I had fun with this drifting shit! haha .. wonderful man .. INITIAL D ... hee

2nd day, was packed with activities. First to ice hotel, amazing place. Pictures will prove it! haha .. and next to the LKAB mine. Visiting the mine was a good experience, learned alot of stuff and I won't go on with it here .. Best activity of KIRUNA, snow mobile. WE rented snow mobiles on our 2nd attempt to view the northern lights! haha but end up we had more fun with the snow mobiles. Drifting and going full throttle with this machine was fantastic! reminds me of the time going touring with AH do on his Super 4. Fantastic experience. Ah Do!!! you will definitely like this snow scooter, you can do all sort of shit without getting real injured! because its all SNOW! haha... and the day ended with a real nice sauna and a few games of table tennis. But i sucked at it.

Finally on the 21st Feb morning, We had to leave Kiruna but we hadnt give up hope on spotting a Moose. haha something that Markus wants to KISS! what the fuck man !! haha ... and lucky us! Finally on the 6th day of our road trip! We got to see some Mooses ... haha first was a deliberate attempt to find a moose, but we could only see some female ones, without those horns.! they are really huge! bigger than horses! haha and the 2nd time is when we were driving, suddenly some moose wanted to cross the road! It was scary, we might have had an accident. haha this type it was the really cool ones, with those horns.!

...... a long long 15 hrs ride and finally back to stockholm! It was a amazing 3500km trip! haha ...
very very NIce.... all thanks to Pippo, Markus, Rami and Bram! haha we will never ever forget it! haha