Oulu, Finland
(Phill)
Well, I just got back from being in the Arctic Circle again. We were in Lapland yesterday, home of Santa Claus.Yup, we saw his house and everything! It was all, of course, commericialized but fun. On the train there (rovanelli) I met a couple more Aussies and ended up hanging out with them the whole time. So it´s me, Richard (met in Helsinki), Leeann and Andy. I went out last night with the boys to a local Finnish pub and had a few drinks. Great time, turns out Andy and I have a heck of a lot in common.
This morning we dragged Rich out of bed; he had not survived the .6L beers very well. Hopped on an early train to Oulu, and found out there's not much to do here. Rich is still passed out at the other end of the library, but the rest of us are in good form. Much better form than this silly library whose keyboard doesn’t have a working space bar!
The hostel here was closed to I´m on an overnight train back to Helsinki tonight. Going to try and see if the Russian embassy has finished my visa and maybe pop to Talinn, Estonia for a couple of days. If not I´ll take a train up tot he lake district and hangout there. Finland
is a great country. It’s really like a part of Russia that has been dragged into the 21stcentury. A lot of the people look very Russian along with some of the buildings, but it´s undoubtedly Scandinavian. Lots of blonde girls and cell phones. The weather is a bit nippy, but apart from spilling a whole coke on myself the other day my clothing is holding up well.
Argh, and my email isn’t working today!
Posted by Admin at September 12, 2002 05:25 AM