Blu Stockholm, Sweden. “Mr Avrill D’Costa could you please come to the information desk” these were the first words we heard arriving at Helsinki Airport. We both thought ‘its finally happened – we have been caught by the authority’s, we just need to figure out for what?’ – as it turns out that was not quiet the case. We had been summoned as Norwegian air had managed to break one of our suitcases. We let out a temporary sigh of relief followed by a feelings of anger and concern if anything had been lost. Luckily that was not the case. We collected the large suitcase, which had the zip broken and was now confined in a plastic bag and we logged a report.
Heading to the information desk we were told that to take a taxi to our central destination will cost us 80 euro (about $120) and to take the bus it would be 10 euro (about $15) – straight away we could identify the city would be expensive..
With a plastic bag full of my belongings we made it to our apartment. Since the bus had taken a while it was already dark and my Co-Captain was anxious not to waste our first Friday night after 7 days. First we went and grabbed a quick bite and after a huge stint with the blandest food in the world we finally got some flavor at a thai place. We also discovered that all the bottle shops are closed from 9pm to 9am, the time approached 10pm. Meaning that we don’t have any pre-drinks as ammunition, which also meant is going it was going to be a expensive night.
We did our usual thing and got lost ending up on a Island where we saw a huge frozen River and a memorial to victims of Water Mines. Walking along we saw the oddest thing some guy dressed in bathers, and gloves just ran to the frozen river, breaking the ice n hitting the freezing water. He stayed in it for 2 minutes and he walked out. Just looking at him sent cold shivers down my spine. I walked up to him and when I asked him what’s going on he said this is normal and is very good for you, going into Freezing waters and it invigorates your body. Shocked we walked on, walking past the ‘Fisherman’s Friend’ boat – totally random.
We reached home and quickly googled a few places and headed out with facing a huge snowstorm that was going on outside.
Our first pinned destination was Bar A21 – rated The best bar in the world!! Attacking the snow storm we walked to the bar, on the way a random citizen spat on my Co-Captains leg we were both in shock but kept walking, reaching the bar my Co-Captains head was frozen.
We rang the bell and waited the waitress came n showed us to our seats. We couldn’t decide out of the extensive range so decided to order the tasting platters. What followed were some of the most tasty cocktails ever!
After each one the waitress would sit with us and explain what the meaning behind each of the ingredients was. For us we were just getting drunk. 6 cocktails later we decided to leave for our clubbing destination for the night. The bill for these was 80 Euro (about $120) – that’s why we do Pre’s at home! Chatting to the Bartenders and complimenting them on the skills, they recommended a new club that had just opened called ‘Nuim’ (actually we think it’s called this. I have no real recollection of the name and Google is not being friendly).
We made our way there feeling loosey goosey – what followed was a clubbing experience like no other and one that has changed our impressions of clubbing for life.
The Club was full to the brim, it had multiple rooms and beautiful people (girls) everywhere – we progressed to the Cloakroom and then headed to the bathroom – in the bathroom we saw about 6 guys drinking bottles of wine directly from the bottles. It was easy to tell that these guys were totally on a different planet. To shorten the events that occurred, I will just list these out, A random started a fight with me because he bumped me (this was subdued), we saw a fight between 1 vs 4 girls with one of them ripping the others earing out and the other throwing her drink on them, following this we saw a guy throw up in a glass and throw it at some one, we saw a guy just face plant while sitting on a stool, we saw a guy get bottled in the head, get up, bleeding from his forehead and continue dancing with the girl he got bottled over while her bf was bottled in the head by his friend and get kicked out and finally we saw the DJ on stage take an Pill when the beat was dropping.
All this within 2 hours of us being in the club. We stayed here till closing and then went to SFC – Southern Fried Chicken where we bought $57 worth of fired chicken – got back to the apartment and polished this off.
The next day we woke up very late, we finally got out of bed and went to buy a new suitcase, ate and then went out for a bit of a walk to see some sights. Soon after we found ourselves once again attacking the pre-drinks. To mix this up we decided to have Long drinks – both of us had no idea what these things were when we purchased them – we later discovered they were Ciders. This was because a technicality, in which you can’t buy hard liquor after 6 so long drinks were all we found in supermarket shelves. After finishing about 4 liters of these we headed to Club Adam – A Theater that was converted to a club. There we met the first group of girls in Helsinki that could dance – we danced with these beautiful girls all night and then once again got back to the Apartement at close time with $57 of fried chicken. 2 hours to have a power nap and off to Stockholm we went
HELSINKI: The city that doesn’t Give a Shit
