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The day before trip 2!

6/30/2019

Hello everybody!
It´s the day befor the next trip! I have already made some preparations, like getting currency and packing my bags.
It´s going to be rough though, I have one graveyard shift left, and will get off work at 7am, and my flight will fly at 9.45am.

Where am I going? I´m going to London, England, again, the second time in a couple of weeks and this year. Why? it´s for another concert, which hopefully be amazing! it will be the second time I will see this band, the first time was at last years Download festival!

I will stay at a hostel I haven´t stayed at before, so that will be interesting! and hopefully I will get some sleep!
I will also have a day after the concert to recoupe and hang around! Then I will head back to Sweden on Thursday!

I´m home!

6/18/2019

I´m home, I got home a couple of hours ago!
The day started early, at 4 am, which was not intentional, as I needed to go to the bathroom, and chilled on the computer, packed the rest odf the stuff and went to the underground at 06.30, whne it opened up! It took a hour to get to the airport.

The check in and going through security went smoothly and I went around the airport and seeing what I could find, found something for myself.
The flight to Stockholm went smoothly as well and I grabbed some dinner. After that I chilled at the gate until my flight, which went as smoothly as before. My dad picked me up from the airport!

The weekend has been very intense, as it was a lot of awesome music, a lot of mud and a lot of food!
A typical festival! I had a lot of fun, but it was tiring as hell. For some reason I didn´t expect a lot of mud! we will see if I go back next year. For some reason, this morning I got the feeling that I wanted to stay in London!

Last day of Download And Last Day in London!

6/17/2019

Hello Everybody! I´m late with the blogs, but here I am.
I´m starting off with the last Day of Download Festival.
I slept in again, and booked a taxi about 1pm, and managed to share it, and didn´t have to pay for the taxi.
I immediately went for lunch and hung around the main area, the weather was shifting as usual. but the weather was mostly sunny during the day.

I waited around and saw Godsmack on the main stage. Later on I went to Zippo stage and saw Anthrax, which was awesome! I went to the bathroom and waited for Smashing Pumpkins., I was thinking about heading back to the zippo stage and see Slayer, but I wasn´t really into it. So I headed back after Smashing Pumpkins. It also means I missed Tool.

I packed my stuff when I got pack and went to sleep.
I checked out from the hotel the next day and booked a taxi to Kegworth. From there I took the bus to Loughborough, and from there, I took the train to London. I arrived at 12pm and checked into the same hotel I was staying at last week.
I then went to Camden Town to get something to eat, but it was closed off for some reason.
Instead I went to Notting hill and Portobello market, and bought some cigars for myself.

I then Wet to St Pauls Cathedral and had a look, and then went to Tower Hill and Tower Bridge. From there I walked to Borough Market and had something to eat.

Day 2 of Download Festival

6/16/2019

I started off waking up at 6am, after going to sleep after midnight (i don´t know why!). So I chilled and took a few naps before sharing a taxi to the festival.
I went to the main stage and saw a bit of Power Trip, Behemoth and Skindred, which were good.
Then the schedules were going to collide, I saw a little bit of Trivium on the main stage vefore going to the Zippo Stage and seeing Three Days Grace.

After that I saw a bit of Stone Temple Pilots, before needing to go to the toilet, and on my way there, I saw a bit of Die Antwoord. Then I headed back and saw the rest of Stone Temple Pilots and waiting for Halestrom, who surprised me, since I haven´t heard them before.
After a while though I wanted to get a good place For Slipknot, so I headed to the main stage and got a decent, Half blocked spot.

They were about 10 min late, but when they started, they went hard, starting off with People = Shit and (SIC). which were awesome. They played a few of their new songs, but the ones I like the most were Psychosocial, Vermillion, Spit it Out and Custer.
I did nejoy the concert as it was my first seeing them live!

The day as a whole was decent, when I arrived, it wasn´t as muddy as yesterday, which changed as the went by, as it got more and more muddy. It were some points that I almost lost my shoes.
Hopefully the last day will be better.

Day 1 of Download Festival 2019!

6/15/2019

Good morning everybody!
I´m writing this the day after, since I got home late from the festival!
So yesterday I was to the festival area at about 10am, and waited to get in, and talked to some awesome people from the UK and US. It took a while to get in and when we finally got in, it was about 12.30.

It was a relatively short walk from the transport hub to the main area, and When we got to the main area, Last in Line has started playing at the main stage. It didn´t interest me much, so I headed to the Zippo Stage and waited for Skid Row, and saw a few songs, then I went back to the main stage and saw Tesla.
After Tesla I saw Blackberry Smoke and Clutch at the main stage.
I grabbed something to eat at this time.

Whitesnake came on at the ain stage and they were good. Then Slash with MYles Kennedy and the conspirators came on, and that was awesome! After the show I went to the Zippo Stage and saw a bit of Rob Zombie, it was good that he opened with the song I wanted to hear, Meet The Creeper.
I went back to the main stage and saw Def Leppard, where they played the whole album Hysteria! It was good, maybe not my kind of music.

The Day as a whole was muddy and had lots of changing weather, going from sunny, to a drizzle and sunny again, and started pouring down, and sunny again. The ground was muddy as hell and I almost lost my shoes a couple of times. But that is expected at a festival.!

Traveling North!

6/13/2019

Hello Everybody!
Today was spent travelling north! It started very early, which wasn´t intentonal, since my sleep is still messed up! Spent a couple hours on the computer before packing up and getting to the train station (St Pancras Station).

I bought tickets to Loughborough, the closest train station to where i´m staying, which was more expensive from what I remember. the train took over 1.5 hours. Then I walked to the bus station to take a bus to Kegworth, which is even closer to the place i´m staying.
I took a 2 miles walk from Kegworth to the hotel (yeah I know I said that it was close, but the hotel is in the middle of nowhere.)

Arriving in London!

6/12/2019

Helleo Everybody, I have arrived in London!
The day started very early, about 4am, which was of course NOT intentional, my sleep was kinda messed up, so I chilled for a bit, packing the last of the stuff, seeing that I have everything, and took a cab to the airport at 8 am.

The flight lifted at 9.55, so I was early to the airport as well. But I managed to get some sleep during the flight. At Arlanda I grabbed some food, and headed through Security. From Stockholm I went to Oslo, in Which I wasn´t very long and from Oslo to London Heathrow. I got my bags early and took the underground to Central London.

After I checked into the hotel, I took a stroll up to Primrose Hill, and down to Camden town. From there I went to the river thames, and had a look at London Eye and Big ben, and from there I walked, via Westminster abbey and st james Park to Buckingham Paldce, but the changing of the guards ere long ago!
From the I went and see Wellington Arch, and headed back to the hotel. I bought some supplies for tomorrows trip up north!

First trip of the year coming up!

6/11/2019

This trip will be my second time in a row that I will head to the Download Festival, and there´s quite a few bands that I want to see, like Def Leppard, Slipknot, Trivium, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Slash and Myles Kennedy, Whitesnake, Slayer and Anthrax, amongst other bands!

I have some expectations of this trip, as I had a great time last year, and hopefully it will be awesome!
I have two more trips to look forward to as well!
I will head back to London in the beginning of July and New York at the end of July! So it will be an intense summer! Maybe even the most intense summer yet!