One week after the World Championships had started, the rest of travel group “Svea Svin” was to join the other supporters on location. Gabbe and Munken was travelling with the passenger ship M/S Isabella to Stockholm. Once in Stockholm Nilses, Patrik and Lövis were to meet them at Arlanda airport

Munken on the way with Viking Isabella to Stockholm is chatting with one of the employees that was getting a glass after work.

Gabbe and Munken met a group of finns that they started to drink with. One of the finnish “ladies” were very aggressive against them and thought that it was wrong that Munken was supporting finland since he “only” came from the Aland Islands and therefore don’t speak finnish… She didn’t like Gabbe at all since he was Swedish.

On location at Arlanda the other guys meet. For some reason Patrik has travelled home from Austria, been home for two days, and was now to travel back down there again…
If someone can explain this strange behaviour, please contact us in Svea Svin then.

Is everything here or? Passport, money, buddies. GREAT! Now it’s time for the first beer of the day together inside the terminal.

Patrik and Munken is looking forward to the trip down to Munich for later transport with house car to Innsbruck. Patrik was, as always, getting a bun instead of a beer. Everything was as normal.

Enough drinking for a while. Time to check in. Gabbe was geeting strong recommendations NOT to check in his passport, like he did last year, since it was only going to complicate things.

On the plane. Time to order beer and get back into the drunk state that was slowly going away.

When time to land, we were asking the crew what they were thinking about our behaviour. Maybe the ironic blow kiss is answer enough.

It’s not enough that one is drunk; one has to drag his stuff as well. In other words, time to get a taxi and get to the car rental service.

After a LOT of mess we are in central Munich and are loading up a stock of beer to have in the house car. Still with the memories from the World Championships in Germany in 2001 and the terrible beer that we bought then, Karlskrone, we saw to it that we were buying quality beer this time.

Once in Munich Munken is getting himself refreshed while Patrik is inside talking to the poor guy that is to rent the car to us.
The thing was that it had only been driven 34 kilometres. It was to be “house-warmed” in a very harsh way for the days to come…

Inside the house car the party is slowly getting started while travelling down to Innsbruck.

Nilses and Lövis with a case of party and joy.

Drunk and happy on location in Innsbruck.

Miserable and bad smelling during the first night in Innsbruck. We were completely worn out after little sleep and a VERY long journey from Sweden. Munken took off to see hockey together with Ellu while the rest of us stayed at the car for a slower party this first night.