Huge lack of butter in Norway!

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This is THE subject on internet in Europe right now, the lack of butter in Norway! How did they succeeded with this?!?!

I think this kind of comical actually! The norweigan government has a monopol on dairy products in Norway.

It seems like the Norwegians miscalculated how much butter that people will need at Christmas and blames partly people for being more healthy and not buying too much butter during the year and partly the lack of butter at the farmers for quiting with dairy products due to the low profit. Wages in Norway is too good expect for farmers, so why be a farmer!?!

The whole thing gets worse ... The Norwegians are coming to Sweden to buy butter. The problem is that it is illegal to bring a great amount of cash out from Norway. A Norwegian couple who traveled to Sweden to buy the butter got caught in the Norwegian customs.

Norway has also sky-high tariffs on everything that they expect that they can produce themselves in their own country. The duty on imported butter is 25.19 NOK! This really encourage the blac market! A common packet of Swedish butter can now be sold for up to 1000 Euro at the black market!

A Russian man tried, the other day, to smuggle 90 kg of butter with a value of SEK 200 000 (20 000 Euro) on the black market, but got caught in the Norwegian customs for smuggling! Smuggling of butter! Can you imagine anything so ridiculous in your criminal records?! Butter Smuggler!

Norway has now lowered its tariff of butter to 4 NOK per kg, but Sweden, Denmark and Finland still have no interest in exporting butter to Norway. About a month or so the butter duty will be increased again! So it all ended up with Norway importing butter from France and Belgium instead! Can you imagine what problems they have?!?!?!?

In the middle of this mess a Norwegian man, Johnny, find 30 kilograms of butter at the shore which probably has been under water for 67 years! Does this founding help the Norwegians? Naaah, apparently it smelled very bad and when TV2s reporter tastes the butter, he is nearly throwing up! But the consistency was good anyway!

Comer a vontade - Eat as much as you want

Brazil has a lot of restaurant which offer something that is lika a buffé, but you sit at your table and the waiter bring the food for your table. The best with this kind of restaurants is that you can eat as much as you want!!! Two days ago, me and Jair went to one of this restaurants which served 8 different cooked shrimps! The food was amazing!! 

Unfortunately for me I think I got food-poisoned... The last night my stomach started to hurt, but it can be something I ate yesterday too, probably more likely... :(

Travel facts!

Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, probably Olinda too is crazy during the carnival! I can just say BE CAREFUL! Don’t be even close to the “pipoca”. The pipoca is the people that are standing “outside” party looking when the trucks pass by. This people don’t have enough money to buy a T-shirt and join the party so they participate by looking at the carnival. In the pipoca there is always people that are there for get some money by robbing tourists (even Brazilians!)! As I said before DON’T go close to the pipoca! By the way, it’s called Pipoca (popcorn) because look like popcorn from the side because they are jumping up and down on the same spot!

Carnival is crazy, DON’T carry your camera if you can’t afford to lose it (only in the camarote). DON’T have pockets on you shorts, even if you’re not carrying anything it’s not very pleasant when you have someone’s hands around your private parts. If you’re a girl DO use shorts in the bloco, otherwise you will for sure have some people’s hands between your legs during the time in the bloco, not so nice! DON’T bring your passport or other documents if you don’t need too (there is a law for Brazilians to bring but nobody do – I don’t know the law about this for tourists but wouldn’t bring my passport anywhere during carnival). During the six days of carnival 1100 documents was found! So I just wonder how many was lost totally????

Don't miss!

When you are in Bahia there are some dishes that you simply can’t miss out on! In Bahia there are some dishes that only do exist in Bahia. The food have African influence from the times when Africans where slaves for the Portuguese here in Brazil. One of these dishes is Moqueca!

I strongly recommend Moqueca de Camarão which is Moqueca made with shrimps, coconut milk, azeite de dênde (which is some kind of red oil which comes from a palm tree) and pimenta (which is chili in portuguese). Moqueca can also be made with fish instead, then it’s called Moqueca de Peixe. MMmmmm… it’s soooo good!

YES! Bloco Carnival 2011

We were only planning to do two things during the carnival so weren’t really planning to go to Bloco Yes! Anyway we decided to go but Emil didn’t have more money for buying a T-shirt so all our friends cut of a piece from their T-shirt to make one for Emil. Emil didn’t believe that it was going to work but Leo convinced him! A woman in a store put the T-shirt together, but you could see that it was fake long way… Anyway Emil managed to stay inside without get thrown out for the whole time and he only paid R$10 which is 40 kr or 4 euro for a T-shirt that we paid R$250 (1000 kr or 100 euro) awesome!!! The funniest was that after the bloco finished and we were heading back to the bar someone stole Emil’s totally fake T-shirt! How can that happen!?!

Emil and Jair

Emil, jag and Jair

Me and my littlebrother (who is sooo big now)

Jair and me

HEJ NORGE!

Norweigan girls

Leo and Emil

Leo is Brazilian but more white than Emil!!!

Jair, me and Thomas

Thomas and Jair

 Me and the two blonde Swedish police girls!

Carnival!

Camarote Skol 2011

Today I was thinking of finally write about the carnival! I really wanted to do it before but I haven’t felt like I was ready to talk about the carnival because of what happened. But know I feel better. I had really fun during the carnival, the four days that I had the time to experience.

Camarote Skol was by far the best! We had open bar, free make-up, free decorating of the clothes for girls, free beer-glass, free hand-cuffs ;) they handed out a lot of other things to put in your hair also. It was awesome and so much fun! I wished we could do that every day!

We went with Jair’s awesome Italian friends Roberto Faga, Elso di Marco, Massimiliano and his girl! We had so much fun!!!!

Massimiliano and his girl

Jair and me

One thing happened there that was a little bit scary but it’s normal if you’re me… I faint sometimes and I’m actually happy that Jair got to see that because now he knows that I’m not dyeing or something like that if it happens again he will know that there is no problem. I felt a little bit funny after one sip of my glass, like I couldn’t breathe probably so I asked Jair to stay one second with me before leaving with the others. Then it happened I was hugging Jair and just passed out and started to shake a little bit (according to the people who witness the whole thing). Just a short while after I felt someone holding my back, like in a dream and I woke up. I saw that Jair was still standing up with me hugging me and there were a lot of people around us. A guard was there and I was sure that I was going to tell me to go home, but he was just there to check on me and I felt fine, I felt like it never happened. Everyone told me, to drink water, but I didn’t faint because I was thirsty of course not haha! And I felt better than ever, like I just had a powernap! No more dizzy nothing! So we continued the party and stayed until the place closed at 5 am. 

Jair's wonderful Italian friends that we are planning to visit in august this year!

Jair and Roberto

Little brother Emil with a sixth-sense, at the same second as I fainted he walked up the stairs and found Jair holding me - magic connection

Elso, Jair and Roberto - belengooooo

Family!!!

Bloco passing-by, but there was actually more find to be in the camarote than in the bloco! There is much more things to do in the Camarote and much more safer!

My very own free stylist!

Jair and Roberto

Bloco truck passing by, you can see the little bar there cool!!

Mmm... I love beeer!

Travel tips!

A few Brazilians speak English so make sure to learn simple phrases as “Quanto custa?” which means “How much?”  and how to count in Portuguese that’s always useful when you want to buy something. But be aware that people might try to trick you. 3 três, 6 seis and 10 dez  is pronounced like “trays”, “says” and “days” so the sound is very similar. The salesmen on the beach may tell you that the price is seis and you hand him dez because you don’t have any change, but he just walks calmly away instead of giving you the change back. When you tell him that the price was seis, he just shakes his head and tells you dez! This happened to me, but I stood up for myself so I got my money back! NOBODY trick me!

Jairs new surfboard!

Jairs new surfboard, half Swedish flag and half Brazilian flag, so coooool!

Me with our surfboards, the most beautiful in Barra!

I love Jair's new board, in actually felt flattered that he wanted to make half Swedish flag. Now we just have to find a nice place to surf at in Sweden because the boards are coming with us!