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so we disembarked at 10am helsinki time..which is 9am norwegian time. actually we were damn shagged by the end of stockholm. i couldn't imagine how i was gonna go on walking and looking around in helsinki moscow st petersburg and tallinn. i wouldn't have walked so much and just spent the $$ on metro. anyways because we were like uh 5mins late..arthur and zoltan just left without us cos apparently 5mins was too much. the rest of us decided to take a bus tour to see almost everything and then just rest cos we were so so so shagged. so we went on the bus..took the tour..went for tea at a cafe and walked around somemore before going to the train station to withdraw euros..change into rubbles at forex and then board the train to moscow.


christien on the bus


markus and jo


judith and doris


christien and i

























somehow..helsinki's buildings and architecture seem greatly eastern european..i did not feel like i was in western europe or scandinavia at all. it was all straight and tidy brown red yellow buildings that look like they were built during soviet times. it was after that that we realized that finland was ruled by russia centuries ago and that was how it became separate from sweden and how helsinki became its capital.


the apparently famous stone church that's really low..


those stones


the inside


sculpture used to commemorate a musician


those tubes of symphony perhaps





the train station








the first constitutional building








the market that wasn't really opened cos it was sunday


naughty christien


smiles


the square














dessert for teatime


yummmm


the christmas store


at the train station..bound for MOSCOW


the trains around


nicole and doris in our puny cabin


the invaders


the intruders


a reluctant photo


bleah


the view from my little upper bed


anyway we had our sandwiches for dinner in the small small compartment..everybody wanted to escape zoltan so christien arthur and judith came into our compartment inside of staying in theirs. what a grouchy sulky boy he is. anyways..the time came for border control. the finnish guy took my passport and stamped it while the rest of my european friends were like 'what was that? why didn't i get any?' and i was like 'DUH u're in EU for a reason'.

and then the russians came. it was kinda scary cos they came and opened up the doors of the compartments and didnt talk except 'PASSPORT' and then we took them out. this guy came..took our passports and tried to identify our photos with us. everyone was ok until it came to me. well like DUH. the photo i have in my passport was taken when i was 12 years old. and it was damnn unnerving when he stared at the photo and then at me and then at the photo like 5 times and didnt say a single word. his eyes were like piercing. during the border control..we cannot even go to the toilets. everyone must stay in their compartment and not go anywhere.

finally they returned our passports to us and we tried to go to the toilet. no one can figure out how the tap at the sink works cos we tried to pull and push and whatever but no water came out. until the very very pissed russian lady guard came out and demonstrated to us to push the stick UP and the water came out. gosh. they didn't speak english either. and we were like 'oooooohhhh omg i didn't think of that'.

anyway we had a very insecure sleep cos everyone told us that people might come in and steal our things at night..but we still slept anyway but because we couldn't really shower or wash up..it was horrible..and we woke up in the morning at 7am in moscow. this is the start of our little adventure.

it took a lot of time for us to get our tickets and get onto the cruise..and yeah it's call silja lines. anyway the lifts inside kinda suck..and we had to wait 1 million years to get into the lifts and get to our rooms cos there were 1 million people trying to do the same thing too. arghhh...and the cabins are kinda small but what the heck..it was only for 1 night. and there's no reception in the cabins. omg. anyways after that we went out onto the deck to look at the view and so on..i like the wind blowing at me..feels damn nice and calming.


our ship


nicole doris jo


botched attempt to take a nice portrait of me


the sky


christien


arthur and judith


those little islands


oops the angle is too low..damn he's too tall


with judith's help...>_<


ooooh judith has a beam of light


inside


the boys are happy cos it's dinnertime


we then went to walk around the deck..chat..and basically went back to our cabins and sleep. those ppl from cbs..sheesh..they were partying outside our door and i couldnt get to sleep till like 1 2am..