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Never noticed the chain of Baltic countries going south for cheaper alcohol (i.postimg.cc)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also, Swedes go on cruises to Åland (a Swedish-speaking Finnish island with low/no alcohol taxes) and famously bring huge suitcases to fill with booze.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I took one of those booze ferries in college from Oslo to Copenhagen. The drunkest I got that whole semester by far was our trip back. But my favorite was the old ladies with boxes of hard liquor and packs of cigarettes getting off the boat

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