Swedish cube day 2007

[AvGalen]

Erik and I are going on a nice travel to Sweden. We travel by car from Enschede to Berlin on Friday and arrive pretty late and far (100 km) from Stockholm at stockholm NYO. We travel back on Sunday-night, so we have Saturday for the competition and Sunday for tourism.

If anyone wants to join us, please let me know. Flying from Berlin to Stockholm NYO is only 0.01 Euro + 10 Euro taxes. Driving from Capelle/Enschede to Berlin is free.

If anyone can help us with a place to stay or travelling from Stockholm NYO to the competition, please let us know. Any help will be greatly appreciated and we will return favors by:
A) I will let you beat me (probably)
B) Erik will impress you with some crazy-fast solves.

 

[Kenneth]

My brother already offer the room he has to the two Frenchmen. In my place there are no place to sleep exept where I sleep.

If there are no one that has got place, then I recommend the "cheap" link at the SCD site, there you can find room in central Stockholm for sub 300 Crowns (30-32 Euro something) I recommend the boat "af Chapman" at "Skeppsholmen", from there it is a 10 minutes walk to the central station.

 

[AvGalen]

Thanks for the info Kenneth. We land at around midnight (Friday/Saturday). Would there still be a train from Stockholm NYO to Central Stockholm?

 

[Kenneth]

Erik asked the same at SveKub, I will check that as soon as I had my breakfast

 

[Kenneth]

Here is the tree last trips to Stockholm that evning:

23:20 Skavsta Airport Stockholm City 00:40
23:40 Skavsta Airport Stockholm City 01:00
00:00 Skavsta Airport Stockholm City 01:20

The bus company is named "Flygbussarna"

That is the best way to reach Stockholm but it is also possible to get to Södertälje and from there use the local train, the "Pendeltåg" to Stockholm or even directly to Kungsängen after a train switch at some of the stations in Stockholm city where the lines are parallell.

Do you need information for how to do that or is the "Flygbussarna" good enough?

Otherwise I can look for that information too.

 

[AvGalen]

If I understood Erik correctly, we are going to spend the night at "Stockholm NYO". The next morning Gunnar is going to pick us up and drive us to the competition.

We don't know where we are going to stay the second night.

 

[Kenneth]

Hehe, I just had the idéa that Gunnar and Kåre is passing the airport on there way to the competition in the early morning and was just about to give you the tips you can stay at the airport and let them pick you up!

Crazy

We fix your staying for the second night, I got a plan that I'm sure will work =)

 

[Erik]

that's great! mind sharing what the plan is?
I can pay you in fast solves?

 

[gillesvdp]

I would have loved to join you Erik and Arnaud.
As you know, I am a big fan of such big (and a little crazy) trips.
Unfortunately school is taking pretty much all of time so I can't join. :-( :-(

Have fun !

 

[Kenneth]

that's great! mind sharing what the plan is?
I can pay you in fast solves?

You gotta pay my brother if someone if my plan compiles. Thing is that he got a company/office in Kungsängen where there is a toilet/shower and a small kitchen among the jigsaw puzzle machine, printers, paper cutters and desks.

There is plenty of room to sleep there if the floor is good enoug?

But as you understand I myself cannot promise you the room. I have asked Tommy in e-mail about it but has not got any reply from him yet.

We have to wait for that...

 

[Erik]

THAT would be a GREAT idea man. I hope it can be managed!

 

[Kenneth]

No answer from him yet and he is often away for some days. I shall meet him Saturday this week in Kunsängen to inspect the venue, (aspecially the lighting situation, if it's poor we have to fix some extra lights) among other preparations needed to do. If I have not got an answer from him before that I will for sure know then.

So, don't worry and start to wonder if there is a couple of days before you get the answer from me

 

[Erik]

ok great man, also check out what the temperature would be in the room if it's filled with people, at dutch open it was hot and no fresh air (untill about 5 o clock)..

 

[KConny]

I'm more afraid of it being to cold. Cubing with cold hands sucks.

 

[AvGalen]

Too bad you cannot go Gilles. That is the second time you are missing a trip to Sweden

And thanks everyone for helping Erik and me. This is one of the reasons I love the cubing community so much.

 

[MAHTI-ANSSI]

Cubing with cold feet sucks too.

 

[adragast]

new event: rubik's cube with gloves...

 

[Erik]

actually I only care for main events this time xD

 

[AvGalen]

Cubing with cold feet sucks too.

Ant I don't think that is because of the cold

 

[Kenneth]

No answer from him yet and he is often away for some days. I shall meet him Saturday this week in Kunsängen...

Erik, I know you got contact with my brother after I wrote that so I don't think I need to give you an answer anymore

BTW, The venue is great, The light is a litte weak so I think I fix some extras. But for the rest, it seems wery nice. The temperature was slightly cold when we was there today, when it's fill up with folk it gets warmer and if that isn't enough, you kan control the temeprature in the room simply by twisting a knob on the wall