Thank you Aletta, Jennica, Johannes, Hanna, Janne and Juno for your hospitality.

Notes from Scandinavia.

• If there’s a guy with a massive afro (not me, no, some guy with a proper fro) on your train to Copenhagen warn him that the German border control WILL search him for weed.
• Also tell him that he can’t just grab a bed in an empty sleeper compartment. Someone has reserved it and is about to aboard the train at the next station.
• All Danish always wait at a red light. That Includes pedestrians too.
• Hitch-hiking, why bother?
• Malmo? rather be hitch-hiking.
• Stockholm is prettier than Helsinki, but Finnish girls are prettier than Swedish girls.
• ‘Baltic sea ferry’ actually reads ‘old people’s disco’, and just ‘disco’ in the weekends or so I’ve been told.
• Guys, if a girl (Hanna) takes you to Stockman (think Harrods/Bijenkorf) for Hullut Paivat (crazy days) cause thousands of Finnish going crazy for big discounts is supposed to be ‘tasting local culture’ be warned, it’s a lie. She just wants to go shopping.
• Finnish have sauna’s in apartments. Tested.

A.

Ps. The Purple Goblin hostel in Tallinn is a home away from home.

12/10/12
Tallinn