Bacon Goes to Sweden – By Colin Sharp: Posted 7-02-08
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The second night was a BBQ / Party with Punk bands at Nord Surf. Nord is owned by Jasper (below) who started a trash company in Stockholm … this covered bowl is on their company grounds… The surface is Skatelite and was extremely slippery. More photos on our site. This event was also sponsored by Red Stripe beer and Jagermeister! Punk bands, Beer, skating… IN SWEDEN! I was on cloud 9.
They love hot dogs. I love hot chicks and hot dogs. (and our banner under it was epic) All that skating and getting drunk… but as soon as it turned 8pm – everyone focused their attention on football (soccer) Sweden vs. Russia. I thought this was hilarious…. you’d never see this in the States. Sweden lost.
Turgesen is so Emo. Right: Don’t worry, they were following Rolle’s lead on pissing into the water… We were on our way to “after party.”
Every woman in Sweden is uglier than shit… some of them (middle) have mustaches. There used to be two women too… but they run away from me for some reason. The beer in Sweden is extremely tasty – and expensive.
This is the next day at a “Bacon Brunch” at the park next to CGL. Like I said, Tim was going off – 360 stale transfer from bowl to bowl… followed up with a nose blunt nollie heelflip out – this guy is nuts! Right – Punk band in the back called “The Krooked”… they were really good, with some Operation Ivy sounding tunes.
Left: While I’m doing transfers, how about kickflip indy? Right: Benji giving this little guy a board for shredding all day.
Mudbutt autograph…. Right: No hot chicks
Johnny ollies a street gap.. My camera sucks – sorry. Friday was “Mid Summer” which is a big deal in Sweden for folks to get out of the city and picnic in the country. We got on a boat to the Archipelago Islands to do just that.
Frank Faria in front of a map to show you where we were going. Stockholm is a series of Islands. That’s the boat leaving… we’d get back on it in 5 or so hours.
Tradition included shots of vodka – Cil (pickled herring) and of course pounding beers. Here’s Tim J. with the disposable shot glasses. Right: The picnic backpack.
Even more vodka on the way back… I really can’t drink Vodka. Neither could Frank – but Benji didn’t seem to bat an eye. Pickled hearing on bread? Tim was going off.
Niklas from CGL got our Swinger graphic tattooed on his arm.. He said that some people get tattoos for reasons but he didn’t.. just tattoos of graphics he liked… (screaming hand to the right) Next day (Saturday) we hit some street spots with some locals including a DIY spot they built .
There was also this public mini near the street spots but this lasted about 5 minutes before… Rain!
Here’s a few shots from the DIY street spot Brotherhood Plaza which featured granite ledges and stuff… amazing spot! There was another name for the area this is in but I can’t remember it right now. Seriously if this existed in Portland, the kids would crap themselves.
I left on Sunday morning on a series of flights that basically took 27 hours to get back to Portland. If you ever have a chance to go to Stockholm it’s definitely worth it.
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Bacon Goes to Sweden – By Colin Sharp: Posted 7-02-08
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