Off to the land of the faraway trees

[fluffymark]

Very shortly I'll be jetting off to Tampere, for the start of my adventures in Finland, Russia and Estonia. Adventure being the word, as I've hardly planned any of these traveels and a lot of my trip will be done spontaneously, and at a whim from now on. This is going to make everything that little bit more fun and exciting. Inevitably, things will go wrong, but that just makes it more of an adventure. Hooray - I'm excited already.

Important: I will probably be totally uncontactable until I return very late on May 9th. No mobile phone and probably no e-mail. Possibly I'll get web-access, so if theres any reason anyone needs to get a message to me the best possible way would be to post a comment here and I may have a chance to see it, but don't even rely on that. alektoeumenides and isobell you both know exactly when/where I'm meeting you. snowgrouse, its a pity that the whims of Ryanair destroyed our planned rendezvous, but thanks again for all your help, and who knows, if things go wrong at Tampere later today, maybe I'll end up in Lahti after all.

The shiny new washing machine has arrived and is all installed and everything. The Kitchen is still covered in excess pieces they didn't need in the end, so don't worry about that. I've not tested it yet. Theres a guarantee form somewhere to fill out, but hopefully this time the thing will actually work. If someone waters my plants I'll be very grateful - sadly I've now declared Twinkle the bonsai tree to be dead, so theres no point watering him anymore. Waaaaah.

Wish me luck! I'm off to finish packing. Yaaaaaaaay!

Comments

[inskauldrak.livejournal.com]

cool! And I'll co-ordinate with Catt** on the watering front (so we don't drown them)

Have an absolutely FABulous time!!!!!! : )

Oh, and if you could pick me up a few divisions of Soviet Armour while you're in Russia it'd be nice ; )

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

That'd only cost a few hundred quid...

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Have a wonderful time, sweetheart! Send us a postcard ;)

[aiwendel.livejournal.com]

ooo wow! have fun!!! :)
xxxxxxxxxxxxx

[791-43.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo!
Enjoy!

Essential Finnish vocabulary:
Olut - Beer
Kiitos - Thank you
Haiste vittu - Fuck off

Have a great time!

[vierasesine.livejournal.com]

Actually it's "haista", not "haiste". Just had to correct, sorry. *grin*

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

You lucky, lucky penguin!

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Have fun!

Gina

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Enjoy!

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I'm here in case of emergencies:). So sorry the timetables are buggered. The streets are already full of people celebrating May Eve, many of them carrying wine and beer--beware of rowdy crowds! Gods, you'll be hit with the worst of Finnish culture, only Midsummer beats May Eve in drunken revels... *facepalm* :)

[fluffymark]

DAMN IT. nobody warned me about may eve!

It was hilarious!!! Walking out into the center of Tampere at 10pm looking for somewhere to stay for the night in a strange unknown town, knowing no words of the local language, and stumbling upon a huge street-party of drunken finns wearing bizarre outfits as the whole town was celebrating may eve by drinking themselves silly - a fably surreal start to my holidays! :)

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I *did* warn you;)!

[mal1.livejournal.com]

Have a lovely lovely time - I look forward to hearing all about Finland and Estonia as we're off there in August and are very excited already!

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

August is a good tme to visit. But it's high mosquito season, so remember to pack that insect repellant;)...

[mal1.livejournal.com]

Oh bum.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

*grins* Well, I'm whoring myself as the tour guide for Finland nowadays, it seems--you can ask me anything... but seriously, *lots* of mozzies. I *adore* Britain for the lack of mozzies. Gnats are nothing compared to the big buzzing beasts up here...

[mal1.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Some expert guidance would be very useful... We'll probably be doing some holiday planning this weekend, and inside information is always helpful - if that's ok?

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

's ok. My email addy is snowgrouse at phnet dot fi, if you want to know more just drop me a line.

[fluffymark]

*excitedbounces*
Helsinki and Estonia are amazing, I really didn't want to leave. It was really that good. Full writeup with photos is on its way soon.... :)

I so wish to go back there soon. You'll love it, the both of you! :)

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

Washing machine, washing machine
now I can wash all my clothes.
*does a happy washing machine dance*

[surje.livejournal.com]

incidentally i'll be in tampere next tues, weds, (and thurs although heading back). have a great time!

[fluffymark]

*boggles*
Business trip I assume?

Seems I missed you at both ends - I was in Tampere from 30 April to 1 May, and then again 8-9 May. Curious place, and full of goths..!

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Well, if you have web access, then you can have email access (I use http://www.mail2web.com , which lets you check any POP3 or IMAP account).

Have fun!

[fluffymark]

That site sounds like it's just what i'd need, but it didn't seem to work when I tried it from Satu's house in Finland. The fluffhouse server demands a secure login, and even fiddling around with all the extra options never resulted in a connection.

I finally managed to hack my way into my email account via telnet to a different machine with a telnet server where I could then chain it to a SSH connection to fluffhouse to grab my email. :)