The Finland `hic´ Ferry

Took a few hours to find a pisser.......

Anyhoo back onto subject - the ferry to Finland with the Liverpool lass!

It started off really well for a change. The lass in the ferry ticket office place insisted that we didn't pay anthing for the crossing because we both had rail passes..not even a booking fee!

Bonus - more money for the duty free!

Ferry left Stockholm @ 20:15 and arrived in Turku, Finland abut 12 hours later.

An attempt to get a cancelled cabin on the ferry failed cus the rail passes also get a cabin if there any but as once on the ferry there were plenty of other people to fleece they wouldn't let us have one. robbing corporate bastards.

Not to worry though because we/I was quite content with sitting at the back of the ferry on the deck drinking my duty free purchases... cans of sprite & a pint of Jägermeister .....

Got a bit nippy so put on ye olde sleeping bag with boots sticking out of the other end god bless two way zips! (wasn't until about 2am when it got too cold for just shorts though =S)

Once sitting on deck got a bit tooo cold/I'd polished off all the Jägermeister/ about 5am... apparantly. (I don't really know cus I was shit-faced!) an appropriate location for crashing was needed or rather a bit of floor in a quiet area.


Highlights of the crossing::

• Drinking copious amounts of duty-free alcohol
• Singing various popular & appropriate songs badly and very loudly (charlie was a pigeon, Rule Britannia, Come Sail Away...Hakkuna Matatta....)
• Shouting "Achtung! Schell, schnell! Dive. Dive. Dive" at the lovey dovey young couple next to us until they sodded off.
• Hmming The Dambusters March when they did sod off. =D
• Talking to some Russians, aswell as drinking their wine (and I don't even like wine...but it was free!)
• Listening to said russian sing opera (he was really good) and got given their email addresses if we ever needed a sponsor to get a Russian tourist's visa!
• Been woken up by a couple of ma-hoo-sive Security guards cus I was sleeping in a lift (with sleeping bag & carry mat!)
• Being asked by said security guards where my stuff actaully was and replying "Its either floor 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8!"
• Getting off the ferry after a whle 1 hours kip still thoroughly hammered.
• managing to negotiate stairs, running kids & a surging mob of tourists with pack on without falling over...just swayed a bit....
• Crashed (being the opperative word) down in ferry terminal to sleep it off/was unable to walk any further.

Then there was Finland but my fingers hurt so I'll put that up in a couple of days time.

and its happy hour in a bit =D

Stay tuned sports fans!

S'laters..