Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

When I was a kid I had a classmate called Mario who came from Croatia and he spawned my interest for the country. We played football together and I loved the unique design of their national football team's shirts so I always cheered for them secondly to Sweden. Fast forward the time about 20 years from that and I found an extremely cheap flight ticket to the country that I had always been interested in visiting. I had been very close to my girlfriend Felicia before, and I usually have one best friend instead of many friends, but now we had broken up even if it seemed like we were going to find back to each other soon. So who would I go to Croatia with, because I couldn't let this opportunity slip away? I thought it would be nice to get to know my drinking buddy Andreas more, it would be fun to find out if we could have a good time without the alcohol too. And to my surprise he was up for it and to Croatia we went! Since the flight to Zadar on the coast of Croatia was so che...

The only thing I had heard about Estonia before I went there was that the boat with the same name sank to the bottom of the sea during hard weather when I was a kid back in -94. It was during a trip from Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and the Swedish capital Stockholm that a part of the boat got ripped and it started to take in water, and in the end 852 people died. With this in the back of my mind, me and my friend Christofer booked a cruise to Tallinn from Stockholm some 20 years later. We survived the trip only to find we had arrived in the medieval times. The old parts of Tallinn are surrounded by an ancient wall and you can tell this is a city with a lot of character. We quickly went into a time machine to the 1980s and 90s by going into the Depeche Mode Bar.                                         A bar totally dedicated to the famous English electroni...