Omg people, OMG! What a journey, what an adventure!

If you’re in a hurry or if you just don’t care about what I am about to write - let me sum it up for you in a single sentence accompanied by a single photo:

Booth babes FTW!

Okay, from the top. It all began 0700 Tuesday the 21, with two middle-aged business coaches and people from each of the four studios within the incubator - or 6 game developers and 2 bullies. We packed our shit in the minivan and took the unguarded route to Jönköping. Unguarded in the sense that there are no speed cameras and no cops. The reason was simply to avoid an otherwise inevitable speeding-ticket. With a top speed of about 140 km/h we ripped through the swedish country side on roads meant for tractors and other crawl speed vehicles. As a matter of fact, our first obstacle was actually none other than one of these pieces of agricultural equipment. Our driver, a genuine asshole but also my main business coach, was almost too eager to break for the poor farmer’s daily routine as he was very much enjoying his hell-ride race against the clock. So we got on the tractor’s six which took our speed right down to just under 40 km/h. This was of course completely unacceptable to our driver who claimed we were making great time until this bastard got in our way. So he honked the horn once, swearing a little. Just for giggles. But then realized the tremendous power of a blaring horn and just let it rip as he revved the engine and sped up to overtake the tractor while shouting random profanity over the loud noise. The innocent tractor driver did not see that coming, as there was no one on that road but him and us.

Once we got to Jönköping there was some minor morning rush hour traffic and we got stuck at our first red light. It looked like we would have to sit tight for a couple a minutes. This was apparently unacceptable to our driver, because in a split second he was right behind a city bus in the fucking bus lane, engine roaring, passing the entire queue of cars and ending up in the middle of an intersection. The bus continued its route but we had to make a sharp turn in front of all the daily commuters waiting at the red light at each side of the intersection. I mean there was a LOT of witnesses to that high-speed traffic violation. But hey, we were making great time.

Anyway, after 11 hours, a trip over the Öresund bridge, a one-hour boat ride, and doing 170 km/h (minivan maximum) on the autobahn we finally arrived in Leipzig and our hotel - The Mercure am Gutenbergplatz . First we had some beer in the hotel bar, then we had some steak and some more beer at the local steak restaurant. Here’s some pics:

To be continued…