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To say that traveling is just a hobby for me would be an understatement.
By this stage it's a way of life for me.Something i need jsut to feel good nowadays.
I guess i never really did like Ireland.
DIdn't enjoy been taken out of Germany when i was 5 and at first found it very hard to adopt.I still to this day feel it not the country for me and never will be.
When i was younger i guess i'd travel with family on Holidays to Portugal and Tenerife on family holidays.Didn't enjoy them to be honest.Nothing fun about tourist spots.Don't lke the idea of traveling from one country just to get stuck in another country with the same peole from your country you travel to avoid being around.
Wasn't very good at School and went i finoshed i decided against college because i ddin't know what i wanted to do(I still don't)
Was told because i didn't go to college at 17 to either get a job or i'd be thrown out of the house by my parents.
First time i traveled on my own was that summer to see a French student that was a lodger in my house.
She lived on a farm which wasn't very exciting but we went to some interesting places.Got to see some underground caves and shit and we met some random black metal dudes and got stoned with them
My next trip wasn't for a few years later i think.It was 2004,Me and some friends(One of them being Ravenlords brother) decided to head to a metal festival in Germany known as Wacken.
We went there and had a god laugh.Got completly shitfaced.I didn't sleep for 4 days.Met some really strange metalhesds.Some 40 year old Norwegian guy who kept banging on this bus befause he saw the Norwegian flag on it and though that somehow trying to wake them at 4am would work.Then he stole their tshirts outside and traded them to some German guy for a joint.
There was also some random drunk French guy we found in a ditch and a Danish guy who was jsut too stoned to find his tent.
The year after i decided i had to go to Germany for a metal festival again.But this time i ditched the idea of going to Wacken for Earthshaker festival because Manowar were playing with every past and present member.This is the first festival me and Ravenlord went to together2 other Irish friends came too..To this day it was still the best show i ever been to.It's sad what the band have become now over the past few years.
This was a very special festival because i made 2 of my best friends to these days there.Carl from Seattle who will be on the cruise and Magnus from Sweden.
The first day i emt these guys was fucking hillarious.The Swedish were calling us over to camp beside them.First thing we saw when we got there was some fat drunk Swedish guy running and falling over onto the ground and passing out.Also his Swedish friends has deliberatly snapped his tent poles on him so he had half a tent
The camp ground where we stayed was surrounded by peopel from different countries.Later that nigth a group of us were completly hammered standing around in the rain barechested singing Manowar songs pissed off our heads.2 of the guys were even have a competition to see who could make the biggest dent in the keg with their heads.
I left that festival knowing it was my only trip for the summer and egerly awaiting what traveling adventures i would have in 06.
TGhe in 06 i decided to go to Sweden rock festival with my Swedish friends.i flew into Stockholm and hey picked me up and drove all the way there which was pretty cool of them considering how long the fucking drive is.
Sweden rock was a completly different atmosphere to the fstivals i'd been to in Germany.Much warmer too.I got burnt to a crisp.My skin actually went pink.
I remember one of the Swedish guys i met the first day had to go bring me back to our campsites because soem other Swedes told him that his friend(me who he had just met that day) was lying pased out in the middle of their campsite.Damn Swedes kept giving me free beer and jager.
Also apparently i told the security i was a viking and started making big roars and pureed a horn full of beer all overmyself.
My Swedish friend Simon who is coming on this cruise i met for the first time at this festival.
Was kinda funny because when he was bringing me back he stoped to talk to someone and when he turned around i was gone.Then he had to go around the campground searching for me again and i ventually got back to the campsite passed out in my tent with no top on the tent wide open.Which is not a good idea considering how cold it gets those nights.I also got so drunk that i couldn't get out of my tent to take a piss.So i used a bottle and then threw the bottle out of the tent.Some idiot actually nearly drank it when they were drunk
After Sweden rock was finished i drove back with my friend Magnus and stayed at his house for what was supposed to be just a day or 2.
But on the last day i got really drunk and decided i was gonna stay in Sweden for another week.So i lied to my work and told them that i lost my passport and that i had to wait a week to get a provisional one issued to re-entre the country.
Then on the day before i had to go back i got really shitfaced again and went wandering from the party and my friends had to search around the estate only to find me drinking with some other random people they had never met before at their house.
When i got back to Ireland i said to myself fuck this i'm moving to Sweden.
A few weeks later i went abroad again to Germany for Earthshaker 06.This time with a larger group of Irish friends.This time the festival was in kreuth and it was a fucking pain to get too.I think it took about 6 hours on train to get there.So we pulled out a stereo and just got drunk on the train blaring metal.needless to say nobody else would enter our carriage.The lack of air conditioning on regional trains sucks by the way.
once we got there we had to climb a big fucking hill.I hate hills when you have a rucksack!!!
Then when we got there most of the campspace was taken so there was no flat ground available so we has to camp on the slope of a hill.It was pain in the ass to sleep in those tents like that.Was once again a great festival.Met some really fucking cool Germans and the night Hammerfall played me and them decided to get fucking slaughtered drunk,skip all the bands and then go watch Hammerfall.This was resulted in me crowdsurfing with a bleeding nose and falling on my head and geting sick and falling down a hill.
The last night there was a massive Lightning Storm.They tried to evacuate the stage area but Edguy refused to leave the stage and wanted to play in the lightning so all the fans wouldn't move either cause they wanted to see Edguy play.After a lot of arguing they finally got them to get off stage until the storm passed.
Nevermore were supposed tp play that night but i heard that the reason they couldn't get to the festival was cause of the weather.
Then after the bands played Lightning reigned down on the campground for about 8 hours litteraly striking the ground in front of your tent.
Was a very interesting experience.
A few weeks later i quit my job and went to Wacken.My friend from Seattle and Sweden also came .We decided that the whole group from Earthshaker o5 would have a reunion at this festival.
First night the bands played i got too drunk and passed out in my friends tent because i couldn't walk back to my own campsite.
I woke up and asked some guy when the first band was on and then he told me that they had already played.
Also Ravenlords brother pegged down my tent zips one morning.I was going fucking mad haha.
Only saw 2 bands that festival but had great fun with my friends.
2 days after i got back to Ireland i booekd a flight to Sweden.Texted my family saying.I'm moving to Sweden.Cyas around.
Then lived there for 4 months in a small town called Fagersta getting drunk and parying a lot with my friends there.I remember one day me and Simon were smoking out of a being for about 8 hours straight
Lots of hillarious parties.
The end of my fun though was soon coming to an end for i did not learn any Swedish or try to get a job and my money was running out.
So i decided to do somethign epic before i went back.
This was the metal cruise in 06 with Annihilator,Grand Magus,Morgana Lefay and the Haunted playing.the day started off my geting wasted on the train on the way to Stockholm.Ariving on the boat pretty drunk.Buying crates of tax free beer.I got lsot on the crusie for horus when i was drunk trying to find my cabin.
Somehow managed to see every band but lsot my tshirt and beer which i found the next day.
So the next day when i found my remainging beers i made it a mission to drink them all before i got off the cruise.I ended up losing my friends and going to the pub with some randomers.Then to another bar after that one closed and hen woke up with a bunch of random people somewhere in Stockholm.
The problem about this was that i hada flight that day.And all my stuff was hours away in Fagersta.Needless to say i mised the flight.had to get sent money to fly back home and then moved back to Ireland 2 weks later with no job there.
I'll finish this some other time as i've gotten bored of typing
- a place I've wanted to visit for a long time. Then, onward to my second trip to Wacken!!!! 
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You are a young person - he must have been relatively young as well!? 
