Made this public for whichever reasons
About my hitchhiking trip in EUROPE!!!
Helsinki, thursday
Me and my friend had dreamed of hitchhiking in Europe for ages, but never really had the courage to do it by ourselves, since we're both like semi-psychotic or whatever. But then, she said to me "hey, Muura, let's go to Estonia tomorrow?" "Yes sure allright!" And that's what we did. Which was by hindsight a pretty.. uh.. well, I had work, I had to be in a meeting on monday, and had like three or four things with a deadline, but who the hell cares? WE WENT AND LEFT.
We got on a ship full of finnish Big Brother-people and it was pretty terrible? I always think that these people don't actually exist, but there they were.
I also left my cellphone home by accident, which was pretty much the Best Thing now that I think about it. No bothering forever.
We danced on the stage a few times, we looked pretty out of place in the middle of middle-aged people singing terrible karaoke with our buzzcuts, dreadlocks, piercings and tattoos.
Estonia
We were giddy and ready for adventure and were giggling and pointing at funny letters everywhere and walking towards red lights and bothering the cars. The streets were really stuffy and trammed in. We ended up bumming off a few busses to outside of Estonia (by sheer luck we managed to get out on the south side where we were supposed to go). I saw the cutest little bus, a plaque with an ostritch, a golden bicycle and the most amazing store full of carpets. Estonia is pretty much the exact same as Finland. Except that Estonians are too cheap to apparently clean up their snow and put some nameplaques on their streets. We assumed this ourselves and got a confirmation from an estonian person who gave us a lift. Tallinn just doesn't want to pay!
Estonians also almost always drive way too fast.
We hitchhiked and got a lift outside of Pärno, and then it got so late that we had to stay the night. We asked on a 24h gas-station if we could sleep in their toilet or whatever but the lady seemed like she's gonna freak out and call the police anytime so we just decided to leave. We bumped into a.. tax-office building? Whatever? And tried to sleep on their window-stills, but it was way too fucking cold because it was windy all over. Then we kept walking forward ready to keel over and die from tiredness (we really chose a good time to arrive to Estonia, 10pm? Go, us! It was like 2am or something at this point.), when we found something that we thought to be a school, and went to sleep on it's porch. It was pretty decent and warm, since we could sleep next to eachother! There was a light that kept turning off and on by itself though, which was annoying.
Then at 4am, some old lady came there to yell at us. We were all like "english plz" and then she started smiling and just kept on going, but not before she grabbyhanded my friend's face for a bit. What
We woke up FREEZING in the morning but gladly it passed soon after walking for a bit.
I have to mention at this point that the houses outside of Pärno were fucking GORGEOUS! They were all like gingerbread houses or something Pippi Longstockings could live in. And most of them were a million different shades of green, too! This is an occurring trend, baltic countries sure love their green houses.
We got a ride towards LATVIA pretty soon after that!
Latvia, friday
Passing the border was the creepiest thing ever. There was NOBODY around, just snowy fields, empty houses, echoing voices of people ringing from maybe miles away, and crows. Also there were a bunch of dogs running around free. This was also an occuring trend in baltic countries and even in Germany, dogs just ran around with no leash by the side of their owners, which I thought to be pretty cool actually. They were also very smart, since they didn't get lured in by my seiren calls of inviting them to be petted.
There was a single lonely windmill (one of those thin and white ones) in the middle of the field. It was pretty surreal since it was the only thing that made noise around.
We got eventually a lift to wherever, and realized that this is the Cheapest Country Ever. Meals for 2€? Allright! I heard later on that the economy sucks in here and that's why people are also really depressed but we just stuffed our faces all happy-like and didn't care.
Latvians have basically the prettiest ugly houses ever. They were so ugly that it was charming.
We got to Riga at this point! It was a really depressing place! I bet it's nicer during the summer. But people were wearing nothing but black and grey, and nobody was smiling. They also kept staring and pointing at us, some even laughed. Probably because we were probably the only funny-looking people around, ever? I dunno where the latvian funnypeople were, but we sure probably looked weird with our colourful clothing.
We somehow scored a place to sleep in just by talking to this random girl. We went to the library and I left my sketchbook on the table, and some teenagekids went to draw penises on it. They were pretty embarrased when I went to pick it up and smiled at them, they probably thought the owner wasn't around.
We could've stayed the night in Riga and explored it some more, but it was just too depressing. So we decided to keep going to Lithuania.
We tried to get a free ride with a train, but it just didn't work. We played the foreigner-card though and got off the hook and didn't have to leave in the next stop. The train was only like 3 euros for trip lasting an hour? Awesome.
When we took off the train at Jelgava-station, there was FAT CATS ALL OVER THE PLACE!!! They were the best, and actually came to be petted. Purr purr. I dunno if they had any homes, but they sure were in good shape, atleast. Later on I saw a cat walking by itself in Berlin of all places, so maybe they just like to wander around.
We got a lift to whichever direction and hung out at a gas-station for a bit. We got an admirer here! He came to talk to us and said that we were "dummkopfs" for hitchhiking in the middle of the night. He got so excited over us being finns and said stuff like "HEHE! YEAH! Finns do russki like this! HEH! *stomps ground like there was a bug in there*" and kept telling us about how he has his own gun-collection. He also slammed our backs and shook our hands really hard, and said that our parents will cry if we keep hitchhiking and that "banditos" will cut our throats. Thanks, random crazy man.
Then he kept saying that we should stay over at his place, he kept talking about his wife and we're pretty hesistant because he was fucking crazy, and then I actually noticed that he didn't even have a ring around his finger which probably didn't mean anything but we decided not to go. We walked some ways with him and when we told him we're gonna just keep hitching forward and walked back to the gas-station, he dumped his bike on the spot and followed us back there. He kept shouting COME ON!!! really loudly and when he finally believed that we're not gonna go with him, he SALUTED US and then yelled "SUOMI TOI VIESTIN LADULTA!!!" which... is finnish and means "Finland brought a message from the skiway." Well. I'm not sure why he had bothered to learn that sentence, I guess he was a Winter War-fan. But atleast he finally left. The gas-station lady had a good laugh over this incident.
We got a ride to Lithuania at some point.
Lithuania
The guy who gave us a lift left us in the middle of NOWHERE. There were no lights and no places to sleep in for miles. We thought we were screwed, but then an entire TRUCK stopped to pick us up! So amazing! The guy driving it was so helpful too, he gave us information on which roads to take and where to sleep when we get to the next town.
We tried his recommendation of Saiers Market, which was supposed to be open for 24h, but wasn't after all, and we were told to leave. Suuucks.
Lithuanian people were even worse with english than latvians, but they were way more friendly and smiled more, and did their best giving us directions with just sign-language and had a way good time doing it too and laughing at their own crappy english.
Also their police have the cutest little fucking hats.
We just kept trucking on forward for what seemed like AGES but finally managed to find a little.. hut with a porch of some sort by the side of the motorway at like 3Am, and we slept there because it kept the wind away.
Again we woke up freezing. We were stuck in a motorway that was leading towards Warzaw for probably like two hours. People kept honking at us and showing rude signs too! Hmph. We managed to get a ride straight to Warzaw though, it was nice!
At this point I wrote down all the roadkill I saw by the roads in Latvia and Lithuania:
A head of a deer
2 x fox
a black bird with white beak what is it
a german shepherd
POLAND!! saturday!
Polish people are the NICEST EVER, I fell in love with them! Warzaw is also the prettiest! I really felt bad leaving this city because I wanted to see more of it. We went around the trainstation asking for hostels because we were pretty much in the crappiest state, and we bumped into this old guy who was renting a room for 12e a person. It was okay, so we accepted. The room was in his mother's house, who was the CUTEST GRANDMOTHER!!! She kept feeding us tea and being nice. I could actually hold a conversation with her in german too, since she was half german. I felt pretty good about that.
It was like bliss taking a bath and sleepin inside. Ahh..
Everyone smokes so much tobacco in baltic countries, just a sidenote.
THE NEXT DAY WAS ACTUALLY WARM! We felt so good, I can't believe it. Spring..
We crossed the street again without any lights and a polish cop stopped us and asked our passports!! Policja was so scary because they were so militant and carried clubs everywhere. He was laughing when he noticed that were were foreigners though.
We noticed that much like laestadians in Finland, prostitutes in Poland advertise themselves by hanging out notes in car windows. Awesome! We grabbed one for a souvenir, it's now in our fridge-door.
Some guy with a really polski nose gave us a lift at some point. My dream was fullfilled.
The only actual souvenir we bought was some Naruto-stickers in some shitty store.
We got a lift towards Berlin now. It was so funny hitchhiking in Poland because nobody knows a lick of english and we always had to communicate with a weird mix of english, german, and a bit of russia. This time we got a truckdriver who didn't know a single WORD of english, so we just pointed at stuff and said "okay"! HE WAS LIKE A SAINT THOUGH!!! He drove us all the way from Warzaw to Berlin, which is like 600 kilometers?! he offered us apples, the worst coffee ever, and then also bought us lunch. ;_; omg
We slept when we crossed to Germany, so we missed that. We spent the night in some hut behind a gas-station.
GERMANY sunday!
We woke up.. and the sun was shining! Oh my god!!! We found some coltsfeet and snail-shells by the side of the road.
Which was absolute HELL by the way! Who the fuck made up german autobahn! It was the worst. we had no idea which way to go. we tried hitchhiking but people were honking at us again then some trashpicker came to tell us that we should go someplace else because polizei will otherwise come. Allright, so that's what we did. We walked a bit of ways on the field he pointed us to and then came back to cross the bridge... and the trashpicker followed us with his damn car!!! He came out and looked hell of frustrated and asked us something like "Are you going to Berlin?!?!" And we said yeeeess and he just OPENED A DOOR on the bridge and pointed at a countryroad taking AWAY from the autobahn and said "There! There's Berlin!! GO!" and we were laughing so hard and going through the door happy that we finally found a road to hitchhike properly in. We got a lift from a lady who spoke excellent english (it was actually hard to find someone who speaks english in germany, but it was still better than Poland) and she gave us a map of Berlin and helped us buy train-tickets and everything. So nice!
Then we took a train to.. ~~~BERLIN~~~
Which was something I didn't actually expect! A thousand little cities forming one! I was a bit weirded out by this concept at first but then I grew to love it! Especially after actually learning to use the weird-ass subway/train-system, it was actually superhandy when you get around using it a lot.
I had a panic attack at this point because the causes of me actually leaving to travel without arranging things at first hit me at fullspeed and knocked me down! It took a while to get over it but then I realized that I shouldn't let shit like "real life responcibilities" to put me down. I am the most irresponcible adult!
We went to check out the nightlife in Berlin, which was actually WAY nicer than during the day! All the funny people came out, and the tourists started to make themselves more noticeable. Everyone was laughing and doing weird shit. Streetmusicians were everywhere!
And then... we bumped into THIS GUY!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGYhYEXfik&feature=related
We gave him some coins and he came to chat with us during his break. He made the didgeridoo himself and makes his living just by traveling around Europe and doing his thing. He's originally french and speaks like five or six languages. Ahh he was so good. I appreciated him so much that I drew him a picture. I loved looking at people's reactions when they saw him playing, everyone was insta-smiling.
We had arranged us a place to sleep in through Couchsurfing a bit earlier, we bumped into another nomad! He had two vans, he lived in the other one and we got to sleep in the second one, which he usually used as his kitched. He had lived like that since 2008. Awesome. He was originally polish. I think he was way over his head though, his entire life formed around the fact that how little money he uses everyday and he was so proud and talking about how he eats the same thing every day and how he never buys anything and.. I dunno. Maybe it makes him happy. But talked way too much, we couldn't handle it. XD he did cook us food though, we appreciated that.
The rest of the trip is just nothing worth mentioning, we were so tired and pretty pissed off about having to go back to Finland so we just did our best to get there, even spent money doing it. We took a bus to Hamburg, hitchhiked to Bremen from there (the guy gave us tomatoes and grapes) and then flew Ryanair from there to Tampere. Hamburg had some pretty hot policemen, they were all dressed in leatherjackets.
The stuff I liked eating in Germany were wieners (of course!) and flavoured milks. I didn't try wurst even if so many told me to, gross. I also found canned kiwi and had to eat it. Wasn't so good.
In Tampere, Finland we hitchiked along this finnish/turkish couple and they were pretty much the BEST EVERRR they had also hitchhiked to every place ever and we talked about countries and hitchhiking and they gave us so many tips.. later on they got their doctor-friend to join the ride, and he was so fucking charismatic and funny. I think we did make some new friends, hurray.
They went to see the H.R.Giger show in the Tampere Art Museum, and we went too. Alien is so fucking sexy.
And when we got home, we didn't go to sleep. We played some videogames.
We're planning our next trip now. We'll see what it'll be!
the trip was harsh but WORTHWHILE! It was so amazing to see different cultures and meet different people. I haven't written down of even half of what we experienced and thought about during the trip, it's very hard to put down on writing. I'd just recommend you experiencing it yourself *3*!!
Helsinki, thursday
Me and my friend had dreamed of hitchhiking in Europe for ages, but never really had the courage to do it by ourselves, since we're both like semi-psychotic or whatever. But then, she said to me "hey, Muura, let's go to Estonia tomorrow?" "Yes sure allright!" And that's what we did. Which was by hindsight a pretty.. uh.. well, I had work, I had to be in a meeting on monday, and had like three or four things with a deadline, but who the hell cares? WE WENT AND LEFT.
We got on a ship full of finnish Big Brother-people and it was pretty terrible? I always think that these people don't actually exist, but there they were.
I also left my cellphone home by accident, which was pretty much the Best Thing now that I think about it. No bothering forever.
We danced on the stage a few times, we looked pretty out of place in the middle of middle-aged people singing terrible karaoke with our buzzcuts, dreadlocks, piercings and tattoos.
Estonia
We were giddy and ready for adventure and were giggling and pointing at funny letters everywhere and walking towards red lights and bothering the cars. The streets were really stuffy and trammed in. We ended up bumming off a few busses to outside of Estonia (by sheer luck we managed to get out on the south side where we were supposed to go). I saw the cutest little bus, a plaque with an ostritch, a golden bicycle and the most amazing store full of carpets. Estonia is pretty much the exact same as Finland. Except that Estonians are too cheap to apparently clean up their snow and put some nameplaques on their streets. We assumed this ourselves and got a confirmation from an estonian person who gave us a lift. Tallinn just doesn't want to pay!
Estonians also almost always drive way too fast.
We hitchhiked and got a lift outside of Pärno, and then it got so late that we had to stay the night. We asked on a 24h gas-station if we could sleep in their toilet or whatever but the lady seemed like she's gonna freak out and call the police anytime so we just decided to leave. We bumped into a.. tax-office building? Whatever? And tried to sleep on their window-stills, but it was way too fucking cold because it was windy all over. Then we kept walking forward ready to keel over and die from tiredness (we really chose a good time to arrive to Estonia, 10pm? Go, us! It was like 2am or something at this point.), when we found something that we thought to be a school, and went to sleep on it's porch. It was pretty decent and warm, since we could sleep next to eachother! There was a light that kept turning off and on by itself though, which was annoying.
Then at 4am, some old lady came there to yell at us. We were all like "english plz" and then she started smiling and just kept on going, but not before she grabbyhanded my friend's face for a bit. What
We woke up FREEZING in the morning but gladly it passed soon after walking for a bit.
I have to mention at this point that the houses outside of Pärno were fucking GORGEOUS! They were all like gingerbread houses or something Pippi Longstockings could live in. And most of them were a million different shades of green, too! This is an occurring trend, baltic countries sure love their green houses.
We got a ride towards LATVIA pretty soon after that!
Latvia, friday
Passing the border was the creepiest thing ever. There was NOBODY around, just snowy fields, empty houses, echoing voices of people ringing from maybe miles away, and crows. Also there were a bunch of dogs running around free. This was also an occuring trend in baltic countries and even in Germany, dogs just ran around with no leash by the side of their owners, which I thought to be pretty cool actually. They were also very smart, since they didn't get lured in by my seiren calls of inviting them to be petted.
There was a single lonely windmill (one of those thin and white ones) in the middle of the field. It was pretty surreal since it was the only thing that made noise around.
We got eventually a lift to wherever, and realized that this is the Cheapest Country Ever. Meals for 2€? Allright! I heard later on that the economy sucks in here and that's why people are also really depressed but we just stuffed our faces all happy-like and didn't care.
Latvians have basically the prettiest ugly houses ever. They were so ugly that it was charming.
We got to Riga at this point! It was a really depressing place! I bet it's nicer during the summer. But people were wearing nothing but black and grey, and nobody was smiling. They also kept staring and pointing at us, some even laughed. Probably because we were probably the only funny-looking people around, ever? I dunno where the latvian funnypeople were, but we sure probably looked weird with our colourful clothing.
We somehow scored a place to sleep in just by talking to this random girl. We went to the library and I left my sketchbook on the table, and some teenagekids went to draw penises on it. They were pretty embarrased when I went to pick it up and smiled at them, they probably thought the owner wasn't around.
We could've stayed the night in Riga and explored it some more, but it was just too depressing. So we decided to keep going to Lithuania.
We tried to get a free ride with a train, but it just didn't work. We played the foreigner-card though and got off the hook and didn't have to leave in the next stop. The train was only like 3 euros for trip lasting an hour? Awesome.
When we took off the train at Jelgava-station, there was FAT CATS ALL OVER THE PLACE!!! They were the best, and actually came to be petted. Purr purr. I dunno if they had any homes, but they sure were in good shape, atleast. Later on I saw a cat walking by itself in Berlin of all places, so maybe they just like to wander around.
We got a lift to whichever direction and hung out at a gas-station for a bit. We got an admirer here! He came to talk to us and said that we were "dummkopfs" for hitchhiking in the middle of the night. He got so excited over us being finns and said stuff like "HEHE! YEAH! Finns do russki like this! HEH! *stomps ground like there was a bug in there*" and kept telling us about how he has his own gun-collection. He also slammed our backs and shook our hands really hard, and said that our parents will cry if we keep hitchhiking and that "banditos" will cut our throats. Thanks, random crazy man.
Then he kept saying that we should stay over at his place, he kept talking about his wife and we're pretty hesistant because he was fucking crazy, and then I actually noticed that he didn't even have a ring around his finger which probably didn't mean anything but we decided not to go. We walked some ways with him and when we told him we're gonna just keep hitching forward and walked back to the gas-station, he dumped his bike on the spot and followed us back there. He kept shouting COME ON!!! really loudly and when he finally believed that we're not gonna go with him, he SALUTED US and then yelled "SUOMI TOI VIESTIN LADULTA!!!" which... is finnish and means "Finland brought a message from the skiway." Well. I'm not sure why he had bothered to learn that sentence, I guess he was a Winter War-fan. But atleast he finally left. The gas-station lady had a good laugh over this incident.
We got a ride to Lithuania at some point.
Lithuania
The guy who gave us a lift left us in the middle of NOWHERE. There were no lights and no places to sleep in for miles. We thought we were screwed, but then an entire TRUCK stopped to pick us up! So amazing! The guy driving it was so helpful too, he gave us information on which roads to take and where to sleep when we get to the next town.
We tried his recommendation of Saiers Market, which was supposed to be open for 24h, but wasn't after all, and we were told to leave. Suuucks.
Lithuanian people were even worse with english than latvians, but they were way more friendly and smiled more, and did their best giving us directions with just sign-language and had a way good time doing it too and laughing at their own crappy english.
Also their police have the cutest little fucking hats.
We just kept trucking on forward for what seemed like AGES but finally managed to find a little.. hut with a porch of some sort by the side of the motorway at like 3Am, and we slept there because it kept the wind away.
Again we woke up freezing. We were stuck in a motorway that was leading towards Warzaw for probably like two hours. People kept honking at us and showing rude signs too! Hmph. We managed to get a ride straight to Warzaw though, it was nice!
At this point I wrote down all the roadkill I saw by the roads in Latvia and Lithuania:
A head of a deer
2 x fox
a black bird with white beak what is it
a german shepherd
POLAND!! saturday!
Polish people are the NICEST EVER, I fell in love with them! Warzaw is also the prettiest! I really felt bad leaving this city because I wanted to see more of it. We went around the trainstation asking for hostels because we were pretty much in the crappiest state, and we bumped into this old guy who was renting a room for 12e a person. It was okay, so we accepted. The room was in his mother's house, who was the CUTEST GRANDMOTHER!!! She kept feeding us tea and being nice. I could actually hold a conversation with her in german too, since she was half german. I felt pretty good about that.
It was like bliss taking a bath and sleepin inside. Ahh..
Everyone smokes so much tobacco in baltic countries, just a sidenote.
THE NEXT DAY WAS ACTUALLY WARM! We felt so good, I can't believe it. Spring..
We crossed the street again without any lights and a polish cop stopped us and asked our passports!! Policja was so scary because they were so militant and carried clubs everywhere. He was laughing when he noticed that were were foreigners though.
We noticed that much like laestadians in Finland, prostitutes in Poland advertise themselves by hanging out notes in car windows. Awesome! We grabbed one for a souvenir, it's now in our fridge-door.
Some guy with a really polski nose gave us a lift at some point. My dream was fullfilled.
The only actual souvenir we bought was some Naruto-stickers in some shitty store.
We got a lift towards Berlin now. It was so funny hitchhiking in Poland because nobody knows a lick of english and we always had to communicate with a weird mix of english, german, and a bit of russia. This time we got a truckdriver who didn't know a single WORD of english, so we just pointed at stuff and said "okay"! HE WAS LIKE A SAINT THOUGH!!! He drove us all the way from Warzaw to Berlin, which is like 600 kilometers?! he offered us apples, the worst coffee ever, and then also bought us lunch. ;_; omg
We slept when we crossed to Germany, so we missed that. We spent the night in some hut behind a gas-station.
GERMANY sunday!
We woke up.. and the sun was shining! Oh my god!!! We found some coltsfeet and snail-shells by the side of the road.
Which was absolute HELL by the way! Who the fuck made up german autobahn! It was the worst. we had no idea which way to go. we tried hitchhiking but people were honking at us again then some trashpicker came to tell us that we should go someplace else because polizei will otherwise come. Allright, so that's what we did. We walked a bit of ways on the field he pointed us to and then came back to cross the bridge... and the trashpicker followed us with his damn car!!! He came out and looked hell of frustrated and asked us something like "Are you going to Berlin?!?!" And we said yeeeess and he just OPENED A DOOR on the bridge and pointed at a countryroad taking AWAY from the autobahn and said "There! There's Berlin!! GO!" and we were laughing so hard and going through the door happy that we finally found a road to hitchhike properly in. We got a lift from a lady who spoke excellent english (it was actually hard to find someone who speaks english in germany, but it was still better than Poland) and she gave us a map of Berlin and helped us buy train-tickets and everything. So nice!
Then we took a train to.. ~~~BERLIN~~~
Which was something I didn't actually expect! A thousand little cities forming one! I was a bit weirded out by this concept at first but then I grew to love it! Especially after actually learning to use the weird-ass subway/train-system, it was actually superhandy when you get around using it a lot.
I had a panic attack at this point because the causes of me actually leaving to travel without arranging things at first hit me at fullspeed and knocked me down! It took a while to get over it but then I realized that I shouldn't let shit like "real life responcibilities" to put me down. I am the most irresponcible adult!
We went to check out the nightlife in Berlin, which was actually WAY nicer than during the day! All the funny people came out, and the tourists started to make themselves more noticeable. Everyone was laughing and doing weird shit. Streetmusicians were everywhere!
And then... we bumped into THIS GUY!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGYhYEXfik&feature=related
We gave him some coins and he came to chat with us during his break. He made the didgeridoo himself and makes his living just by traveling around Europe and doing his thing. He's originally french and speaks like five or six languages. Ahh he was so good. I appreciated him so much that I drew him a picture. I loved looking at people's reactions when they saw him playing, everyone was insta-smiling.
We had arranged us a place to sleep in through Couchsurfing a bit earlier, we bumped into another nomad! He had two vans, he lived in the other one and we got to sleep in the second one, which he usually used as his kitched. He had lived like that since 2008. Awesome. He was originally polish. I think he was way over his head though, his entire life formed around the fact that how little money he uses everyday and he was so proud and talking about how he eats the same thing every day and how he never buys anything and.. I dunno. Maybe it makes him happy. But talked way too much, we couldn't handle it. XD he did cook us food though, we appreciated that.
The rest of the trip is just nothing worth mentioning, we were so tired and pretty pissed off about having to go back to Finland so we just did our best to get there, even spent money doing it. We took a bus to Hamburg, hitchhiked to Bremen from there (the guy gave us tomatoes and grapes) and then flew Ryanair from there to Tampere. Hamburg had some pretty hot policemen, they were all dressed in leatherjackets.
The stuff I liked eating in Germany were wieners (of course!) and flavoured milks. I didn't try wurst even if so many told me to, gross. I also found canned kiwi and had to eat it. Wasn't so good.
In Tampere, Finland we hitchiked along this finnish/turkish couple and they were pretty much the BEST EVERRR they had also hitchhiked to every place ever and we talked about countries and hitchhiking and they gave us so many tips.. later on they got their doctor-friend to join the ride, and he was so fucking charismatic and funny. I think we did make some new friends, hurray.
They went to see the H.R.Giger show in the Tampere Art Museum, and we went too. Alien is so fucking sexy.
And when we got home, we didn't go to sleep. We played some videogames.
We're planning our next trip now. We'll see what it'll be!
the trip was harsh but WORTHWHILE! It was so amazing to see different cultures and meet different people. I haven't written down of even half of what we experienced and thought about during the trip, it's very hard to put down on writing. I'd just recommend you experiencing it yourself *3*!!