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fluffymark) wrote2004-04-30 12:52 pm
fluffymark) wrote2004-04-30 12:52 pm
Off to the land of the faraway trees
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.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!
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!
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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 ; )
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Enjoy!
Essential Finnish vocabulary:
Olut - Beer
Kiitos - Thank you
Haiste vittu - Fuck off
Have a great time!
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Gina
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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! :)
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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! :)
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now I can wash all my clothes.
*does a happy washing machine dance*
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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..!
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Have fun!
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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. :)