Car import tax to Finland/Buying Audi in Finland

[repo]

Finns get stoned whenever there is cheap booze available.

It is considered to be like putting money in a bank. More You drink, more You save.

You saw the results.

And yeah, did You see lots of Finns with vagons loaded with beer when coming back? Pretty simple. Since Estonia joined EU, there is no limits how much You can bring with You back to Finland. So, loads of people take a car to Tallinn, just to top it up with beer and vodka, and then limp back home to wait for the investment to grow value, iow raising booze taxes...

Example: sixpack of Karhu (4,7%) in local store here in Vantaa costs anything from 6 to 9 eur, and You can get a 24pack or same stuff in Export strength (5,2%) from Tallinn for 9 eur, IF YOU BUY TEN CASES OR MORE.

[Nj]

haha. I like your logic. I saw loads of Finns getting off the ferry in Tallin with those hand truck things. They just filled the thing with 10 crates of beer and a box of vodka, got back on the same ferry again and kept drinking until they were back in Finland.

I had a great time in Tallin. 2 litre steins of dark beer made in the brewery that the pub was attached to.. and only cost about 2 euros. Cigarettes were cheap too. I don't remember much else about the weekend apart from a Russian guy trying to sell me a Russian passport and later thinking I was at a party, which turned out to be a gang fight (My large friend lifted me out of it to safety )

[quattro84]

My brother lived in Finland for some months, Helsinki to be exact.
I have never ever seen more drunk people together in my life on a tuesday morning...
At first i was trying to be polite to help an elderly lady back on her feet in the subway but it was an story with no end because the entire coupe was drunk. (Metrostop Surnainen, will never forget it...)
So, later on we took a cruise to Tallinn with some friends , in a weekend whereby every lickerstore in Helsinki was closed. Complete hell on board. Grandma with a trolley full of boose.

Oh yeah, being Dutch and properly dressed will get you into every nightclub in Helsinki filled with nice Russian lady's trying to ripp of a drink.

[repo]

Nightclubs in Helsinki are not filled with russian ladies. Apparently You went to stripclubs. OR then again You were stoned enough Youself not to be able to tell difference between Tallinn and Helsinki.

People are not usually drunk on tuesday morning, unless it's vappu. (1st of May)

[niall1]

I like the look of that Harwich to Esbjerg route. Then a nice drive up to Stockholm and another ferry to Turku. cheers for the info and advice :

That's the route we're going to take except we'll take the ferry to Helsinki and will probably spend a night in LegoLand in Denmark with the kids.

LOL on the Finns and booze. They beat the Irish hands down any day! Vappu just has to be experienced to be believed, especially if you're a foreigner with no hat..

[quattro84]

@ Repo: No stripclubs, but funky clubs on top of a building called Kammpi or something. The Russian girls were all foreign exchange students with rich daddy's. Well, atleast that was what they told me.

[Henkjan]

.... Vappu just has to be experienced to be believed, especially if you're a foreigner with no hat..

[Nj]

Vappu just has to be experienced to be believed, especially if you're a foreigner with no hat..

bizarrely I met my wife on vappu. and she's russian. I was off my face on russian vodka and guinness and have a vague memory of waltzing her through the club, despite everyone else jumping around to dance music. oh those were the days

[repo]

For all ignorant members,

http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Fin...og-154232.html

There You get an idea, what vappu means.

Basically most of the helsinki city center is closed down on vappu night, as there are too many wasted people, too much trash and broken bottles, too many things going on for anyone to drive a car.

Celebration continues on Ullanlinna Picnic on next morning, where usually around 80 000 people gather to have herring brunch and a little hair of the dog.

[Henkjan]

and then some 7 weeks later, this is repeated at Juhannus... the major difference is that at Juhannus you get drunk in the countryside, where with vappu you get drunk in the city

[Jonas_R]

If you are going from Esbjerg to Stockholm then avoid rush hour between 7-9 in the morning and 15-17 in the evening.

There is a lot of traffic when driving through Vejle and also on the highway when you get closer to Copenhagen. You also have to cross two Toll bridges to get to Sweden, that is around 65 euro.

[niall1]

Thanks Jonas. Where's the best (read most reasonable!) place to stay when you're going to legoland?

[Jonas_R]

Got these suggestions from a friend that lives in Billund. I live in Copenhagen which is 400 km away
WWW. Hotellegoland.dk
WWW. Hotelsvanen.dk
WWW. Propellen.dk

They are arranged after price, going from expensive to cheaper, hth.

[Nj]

I have to say i'm tempted now too and I won't even have my wife and son with me

[niall1]

Going to stay in the legoland hotel as there's a 2 fro 1 deal on the day pass. Any the kids will love it!