That's how I roll (eli niin meikä käärii)

First of all, here's how ridiculously twins we look with our matching backpacks (probably there's something with the hair and/or clothing too) B----D

Then, ROADBURN! So happy that it exists! Everything was super duper awesome, for example these great people here. This is only just a few people of our whole huge group.

It's always quite hectic to see all the bands you want at Roadburn. There's five stages so there is no way you can see them all. On Sunday Afterburner was a bit ruff day, everyone was super tired and walked like snails. But even though our bodies were tired, our spirits still wanted more music :------D It was so cool to sit and watch the whole Suspiria-movie on main stage. We haven't seen the it before and did enjoy it a lot. All the colors, weird moments and mysterious buildings combined to live soundtrack by Claudio Simonetti's Goblin. Pure awesomeness! Also Russian Circles, Monolord, Kandodo, Tombs, Bongripper, Majeure, The Heads, Wardruna, Pyramidal, Eyehategod, Zombi, White Hills, Terminal Cheesecake and many more kicked some serious ass. As usual, there was couple of really great surprises too like Briqueville, Messenger and Sun Worship.

On Monday morning we packed our stuff from Beekse-Bergen cabins and cleaned the place up. Weird moment to realize that this is over again :D It was only a week ago when it all had begun. We hanged around in Tilburg for couple of hours with Patrick, Ole, Henna and Sven, just taking it easy and have a lunch. They all were going to Amsterdam to catch their flight later on and we were heading to Eindhoven so we snailed to the train station. Again with the goodbyes ;____;


Coincidentally one friend of ours (who was staying with us in Beekse-Bergen too) had a hotel room in Eindhoven, so we decided to try to mooch into his hotel room for one night. We don't want to mention the name so that he won't be in trouble since his employer payed the room :-------D Anyway it worked and we cancelled our cheap hostel and stayed in that fancy-ass business hotel instead, WHAT UP BITCHES PART 2! Seriously, look at this place B)

Eindhoven seemed really interesting town, we had incredible food in one cool restaurant and town looked nice as much as we saw it. Would be nice to go there again, it's a really good alternative to Amsterdam (been there, done that). Later in the evening we bought a bucket of chicken from KCF because neither of Aino or the mystery man haven't had it before. Bucketlist checked once again. So we sneaked back to hotel and ate it in bed while drinking beer and watching some pretty nuts Dutch tv-show. KFC was pretty disgusting, no need to buy that crap again D:


Tuesday morning we once again packed our various stuff from the hotel, had a quick breakfast at a cafeteria nearby and headed hitchhiking. Our spot was good, a lot of cars passing by but DUISBURG-sign didn't work too well. Santtu bought us ice cream and we stood there with a happy mood enjoying the sun :3 Time passed by and we decided to change the sing to GERMANY :-------D So obvious. Cars started to stop and one old guy took us in. He was heading to Venlo which is right next to Dutch - German border. He didn't speak that much English but we understood each other quite well and he promised to drop us at some gas station. After all there wasn't any nearby Venlo, so he drove us all the way to Duisburg! Funny old guy who smoked a lot of cigarettes and listened pretty loud this weird radio channel that played mostly 90's eurodance music BD

Lot of our German friends had wondered why the hell do we want to go to Duisburg since it's like Germany's Kouvola (:D) and to be honest we decided to take our first pit stop there only because it was conveniently along on our way to Berlin. We both think that there's nice people and interesting places in every goddamn small town, you just have to find them. Duisburg most certainly didn't let us down and ended up being such a great experience, mostly thanks to our wonderful couchsurfing-hosts Dora and Ann. They basically spoiled us with their better than a hostel beds, tasty food and personal taxi-services B---D On top of it all, the weather couldn't have been better either. +25°C, warm wind, sun shining with a blue sky and incredible delicious ice cream, JUST PERRRFECT!

One of the coolest things was that Dora and Ann took us to a place called Landscape Park which is an old iron mill. Here's what it's said on their web site:

"Over a period of more than ten years, a culture, nature and leisure park has been created around the old ironworks which is unique in terms of its multi-faceted combination of uses. Walking, cycling, playing, letting off steam, enjoying the view from Blast Furnace 5 and relaxing in the beer garden or restaurant are just a few of the many possibilities a visit provides. And at night Jonathan Park’s light installation shines over the houses of the city - a Duisburg landmark visible from a distance." 

There was plenty of cool climbing walls in different parts of the factory area and a lot of people climbing too. It would have been so cool to climb here! Definitely need to come back for that and to see the place at nighttime with all the colorful lights.

Aino has been a little sick, so fingers crossed now that she'll get better and we'll easily get a ride to Hannover today. Hitchhike starts about now!




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