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Re: holiday in sweden

Post by jtbo » 19 May 2009 10:58 am

Yes it is very much of fun, there is pain, more pain and then warm relaxed feeling afterwards, that is what makes finnish rally drivers so good, being tense is not good in rally :lol:

One nice ritual is also to open hole into frozen lake, go into sauna and then jump into that hole which has started ice again so you need to be careful not to cut yourself into pieces of ice, then you swim there until you can't feel your limbs, get up and then it is that true cold and pain hits you, very nice effect when there is -15C and bit of wind. Of course quickly run into sauna where is very hot, your skin is very cold, more pain, weaklings pass out at this point. This is then repeated several times, very good feeling afterwards.

At this time of year it is not possible to experience all this, but there will be winter soon enough, I recommend visiting Finland at winter we then can give you good sauna experience, who is first, Chris? :D
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Re: holiday in sweden

Post by Cutler » 19 May 2009 11:49 am

that is what makes finnish rally drivers so good
sisu makes them so fast :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy8LJx71_9o

they should have talked to ari, he is also a very cool guy.
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Re: holiday in sweden

Post by Chris_C » 19 May 2009 11:51 am

jtbo wrote:..Chris? :D
Like hell... I'll happily be a slow warm rally driver :lol:
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Re: holiday in sweden

Post by jtbo » 19 May 2009 01:24 pm

Cutler wrote:
that is what makes finnish rally drivers so good
sisu makes them so fast :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy8LJx71_9o

they should have talked to ari, he is also a very cool guy.
All rallying/racing finns are nice guys :mrgreen:

That reminds me, best thing to see in Sweden is Finland across to bay :lol:

One can try to get sisu from these:
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But they don't have finnish fighting spirit in them (sisu) :wink:

And some might think I was joking with that hole in frozen lake:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_swimming

But then again, our football differs from british version :mrgreen: :
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Some of such activity is available in Sweden too, worth to test, gives memories of lifetime.
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Re: holiday in sweden

Post by trabitom99 » 19 May 2009 03:14 pm

Cutler wrote:sisu makes them so fast :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy8LJx71_9o
they should have talked to ari, he is also a very cool guy.
That film is a classic, particularly the interview with Mika Häkkinen :-) Somewhere at 5 mins 30 secs ...

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Re: holiday in sweden

Post by whiskeyonesix » 20 May 2009 01:36 pm

Holidays in Sweden??

Great country, I worked there 6 or 7 years ago on the Surplus BV206 stock for the FMV. How about visiting the Volvo museum in Gothemburg (terrible spelling i know..)
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Re: holiday in sweden

Post by habie12 » 21 May 2009 11:40 am

i wnat to go to the volvo museum and maybe to the Walfridsson museum in sunne. does anyone got that adres? i got the tom tom with me...

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Post by jtbo » 21 May 2009 12:06 pm

Walfriddson museum is private museum, I don't know if it is public private museum.

http://www.walfridsson.com/Kontakt.htm
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Stig-Olov Walfridson
Telefon: 054-775 41 45
Adress: Box 5114
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E-post so.w@helmia.se
He might know how to contact Lars-Erik that is his brother and owner of that 363CS and museum if I did read correctly that information I found. Stig-Olov is rally driver so he probably can talk at least rally driver english :mrgreen:
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