Travel: Sweden. Couchsurfing in Malmö.

Riga-Linköping. Oops, we are in Arlanda.

After trying to make a life at homeland again for few months and it was going nowhere, I decided to set a challange and try to hitchhike in Sweden on my own. I wanted to visit an old couchsurfing friend Henry, to whom I was his first host in 2008, and then in 2009 he visited me in Latvia. Now he lives in Sweden, in Malmö! And why not? to go visit!

To prepare for this trip, I read online about on hitchhiking wikipedia about spots in Sweden and printed out maps to take with me. Found a host in Linköping, as it was planned that I arrive in the evening and have a time to spare, and also a host in Malmö. Oh, and have to mention that a friend of mine tagged along me as she wanted to try to travel "my way". Hitchhiking, couchsurfing, yeah...

Plan changed when the flight did not arrive in Skavsta but in Arlanda!!!! My friend felt bad about it, I tried to keep a positive feeling, because I mean nothing bad really happened, just needed to understand the situation what is the airline offering us and that's all. They could drive us back to the Skavsta airport, but there we would wait until 2am a bus to Linköping. We were supposed to be in Linköping around 9pm if everything had gone as planned... So, when this happens it feels really bad for being a couchsurfer because this mistake distracts my host's life too. As it is not my fault for being so late and arrived at 4am instead 9pm... He couldn't really leave a negative reference. :)

It was so short and we were so exhausted, but had to leave Linköping before 11am. We took the bus to IKEA and then walked to the bridge/roundabout towards Malmö... 7 seconds and ONE CAR ALL THE WAY DOWN TO MALMÖ. The guy was driving to meet his girlfriend and he said he can't tell he is driving two girls, she will misunderstand and be jealous, ah oh! Around 6pm we arrived in Malmö.

Linköping.

Yesss, made it! perfect spot, only 7minutes and got straight ride to malmö from Linköping! but haha what a mad nightmare i had day before. instead of arriving at 7pm in linkoping, i arrived 2am! my flight went to arlanda instead skvasta, haha. fun fun fun, but on the way i met very interesting person! his job is representor, so, he gets to travell and paid for it! luckkkyyy! and my hh driver was impressive person as well, but about him in other post :)

Couchsurfing in Malmö. 

  

Love (Swedish: Lu-ve).
What amazing meeting! He is deffinitely one of those cs-new-made friends who I will see more than “maybe see you soon”. He is like my Swedish brother!  Leaving their (Love, Jon,Oscar) flat on friday morning, I felt I’m leaving my long-time-no-see-friends rather than just-cs-hosts. :) And also so many funny coincidences, we were surprised but then again.. world IS really, really small, especially on couchsurfing.

Järna.

 Hejdå, Sverige.