Itchy feet

[fluffymark]

Every morning it's a tragedy. Every day.

It's about 9AM. The long shiny train pulls out of Waterloo station, bound for lovely places in foreign lands. It's like a dream. Except I'm not on it. I'm watching with despair and envy from the other train that departs at the same time. My train is less shiny, not as long and I get off at Wimbledon, which is a nice place, but not as nice as the places the shiny train goes to. I want to be on the other train, the one that calls itself a Eurostar. It's taunting me. Every day. Waaaaah. Mooop. Strop.

BUT...

On February 12th I'll be on the shiny train. For plans have changed again, and I'm going to Bruges after all for my birthday. Yaaaaaaaaaay! Mmmmm. should be fab. Am going with snow_leopard and emarkienna.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! :)

A plan is also evolving involving snow_leopard and myself flooping over to Helsinki in early may and seeing the wonders of nokialand. Hopefully alektoeumenides will have lots of holiday time then, and I'll be able to meet up with her in pretty St Petersburg and she can show me the delights of that city, and then I'm very tempted to fit in a trip to Tallinn while I'm in that part of the world. Am very excited! *bounce*

And I can buy myself my very own MINIMOOSE! :)

Oh and the nice daevas is going to be sending me CD full of piccies of Persepolis, as I'm very tempted to plan an expedition to Iran. Woooooooooo. More excitement.

Comments

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[fluffymark]

*bounce* Bruges will be fab! :) :) :)

[791-43.livejournal.com]

I see you've taken the challenge seriously! ;-)

Helsinki is nice. Come to think of it, St Pete's not so bad either.

Yey travelling!

[fluffymark]

I want to win! I want to beat you by travelling more places! :)

Assuming I make it to Helsinki and St Petes, where must I visit there??? :)

Yay!

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

Cooel. Make sure you hit St Petes at the beginning of May - 1st to the 4th - as those are the days I can definately be there.

Helsinki: nice place, but can't remember finding a great deal to _do_. Just hang out and enjoy it: last post of civilisation :)

St Petes: Hermitage, Russian Museum, Pavlosk if it's nice weather, the Idiot Cafe, Apransky Dvor, Petrograd side and general wandering and chilling out.

Tallinn: erm...pretty but dull. Cheaper (slightly) to get to St Petes that way plus the Embassy is dead nice if you decide to get your visa en route rather than in advance. Goto lots of cafes and marvel at the cinemas where they don't DUB films.

Re: Yay!

[fluffymark]

Yay, I'll plan St Petes for 1-4 May. 3rd of May is bank holiday here too, so that fits nicely into me taking one less day off than I otherwise have to.

Will plan Helsinki and Tallinn around that, somehow. :)

Re: Yay!

[nipple-salad.livejournal.com]

No way! Tallinn is a FAB place to hang out! :)

:) tis a fab place to hang out...

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

But I have spent a little too much time there I think to really appreciate it...I mean, there's nowt to do, but the cafes are great I must admit :)

Re: Yay!

[791-43.livejournal.com]

Helsinki = seconded.

St Petes: all of the above, plus Peterhoff - old palace grounds, full of delightful water follies. And maybe the Kunstkamera - if pickled two-headed foetuses are your kind of thing?

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

Yeah indeed. Now we have to work out dates (as obviously I'd rather we did Helsinki over a long weekend so I have to take less time off work).

[fluffymark]

Hmmm. The bank holiday is May 3rd, but thats when I'd like to be in St Petes. I'm sure we'll sort something out - I'm planning to be out there for at least a week (two weekends and the week between them) so as to make the most of it, which makes things more flexible.

Hm...

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

Well see what you can do. Don't fret if you can't make it to Petes that weekend...I could be there the following weekend but only for two nights (we only get Monday 10th off) so it'll be more rushed. See how it goes.

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

Well the weekend BEFORE that is the weekend after Whitby. So can we arrange to do Helsinki the weekend after you see Val (8th/9th May)? That would mean you can do Russia and Tallin first then I can fly out to joing you in Helsinki and we can fly back together?

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

I doubt I can take tiem off around the Bank Holiday weekend anyway so the weekend after that would be IDEAL for me.

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! (Must try the Eurostar sometime myself, purely for research purposes of course.)

[fluffymark]

Am looking forward to it, as i've not been on Eurostar before. Have been through the channel tunnel lots of times, but never on the Eurostar. Wooo. *excitement*

[erming.livejournal.com]

Eurostar is great.

Went to Paris with Lana a couple of years ago.

Also not quite so shiny but still a Eurostar, I think a couple of the trains run from York to London. Caught one back from Whitby a couple of years ago (also with Lana).
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[redcountess]

Ooh, St Petersburg, I so want to go there and see the old palaces and imperial churches, not to mention the Hermitage!