Helsinki

Being that is only a quick jump north across the Baltic Sea to reach Finland from Tallinn: why not? The Finish dig their modern architecture and modern interior design. Helsinki is: clean, friendly, easy, safe, and well-off. Boring! Nice place to raise the family, but not much going on from the cultural side. Maybe there is more going on outside the coldest darkest time of the year?

Almost forgot to mention, the boat ride. Friday night me and Alex had spent the night dancing with the lovely locals and thus did not have the energy to leave our bed before noon, the boat left at 1PM. We mad it no problem, but something was amiss. Upon boarding the ferry we were greeted by hundreds of drunken finish youths that crowded every open space in a large boat! In an effort to ignore them we took large steps over people laying in the hall, and found a large empty room in which to resume our rest for the duration of the trip. The room, I though was some sort of lounge. I was wrong. Thirty minutes into my sleep I was abruptly awoken by loud Euro-trash-dance and to my amazement in filed 500 fifteen to eighteen year olds for the dance party. I watched in amazement. Upon arrival the drunk youth all filed of the boat most with between 1 and 10 cases of duty free beer, and were of to visit there local customs official. Wow!

GPoD: What is going on here? - Was ist hier los?