Land of Fin

Morning sports fans

Well its pretty far east in terms of Europe...... its neighbour's Russia and I had to change to another time zone!! omfg...

Only spent a couple of says here really, just in Turku.

After sleeping enough of my drunken state off to be able to walk again I finally left the ferry terminal some 6/7 hours after getting there. (its was raining aswell) =(

Hostel staff were pretty cool, the guy's spoke fluent english and theguy that did the nightshift was a metal head!! \m/ well it was Finland after all.

Origninal plan was to go to Helsinki then down across to Tallin in Estonia followed by Lativa, lithuania and Poland etc..

Well that was until I mentioned it to one the guys that helps run the hostel... the genral gist of what he said was

"you're going on your own?! are you fucking crazy?!"

the other thing he mentioned was that Tallin is the stereotypical harbour town eg full of crack and whore houses! that and wat happens there usually stays there.....sounds like a real honeypot!

Then there was the warnings of customs between the countries being somewhat corrupt (and not cheap either)

The Union Jack in my pack would go down just lovely if they found that!

Started looking like it might not be such a good idea to do the northern part of the old Eastern Block on my todsome.... then I looked at getting around and travelling about there eg getting through exceedingly quickly (with copious amounts of cheap paint-stripping death juice aka Vodka).
From Ye Goode Olde Lonelyus Planetus the impression of public transport and getting to border crossings was, to summarise quite accurately, complete bollocks.

Back to Stockholm on the booze cruise ferry for me the next day.

Finally parted ways with Liverpool lass cus she was going North & I was in a hurry to get the fuck outta Scandinavia.

Kinda strange not having anyone to hurl abuse at and offended by:

farting
or
picking my nose
or
not showering for more than a day (shower in a can is just so much less effort)
or
belching when eating
or
having a snoring competition with the fat batstard snoring machine a couple of tents away
or
swearing and being generally abusive/a complete arse to unhelpful foreigners


S'all for now folks,

S'laters