Raggare Central

Getting back on the highway after stopping for lunch in Jönköping was a bit of a nightmare but kind of fun. Apparently there was a big gathering of all the "raggare" in Sweden on this day in Jönköping. For the non-swedes, "raggare" translated directly means a person who hits on someone. I feel like they are people who are stuck in the 70s-80s who drive hotted up American cars and wear leather and dark clothing as well as jeans and jean-jackets, have long hair and a bit on the wild side. They are kind of similar to motorcycle gangs. They drink heaps and drive around in their cars - not sure if they drink and drive but it wouldn't surprise me.

But these people had completely blocked the highway and we thought at first that they were just being dickheads and just getting out of their cars, pissing on the side of the road, sitting on top of their cars and in the boot of the car, drinking and throwing bottles and cans out on the side of the road, listening to loud music. However as we finally passed most of them after 30mins, we realised that the exit to their convention thing, or whatever it was, was completely blocked because there were so many of them. So then I just laughed about it and thought they were pretty funny. One guy even offered my a drink from a whisky bottle after he had just drank out of it - I think not! These were the best pictures I could take without being too scared that they were going to beat me up...