HELSINKI.

The city that doesn’t give a Shit.

Captains Log Day 33 – 2/01/14 7:57pm.
Location: Radisson 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