mong summer dream (now featuring added winter, also spring)

erm that's because the CBD is dead most of the weekend

surrey hills is a short walk and chockablock of breakfast places!!

SURRY HILLS

i am a drongo

this didn't post 7 hours ago:
"the CBD is always dead for food on a weekend, go to a real place"

HEY SASHA ed and I are in Helsinki 15-18 dec, you wanna come visit? ps the Toms of fapping Ldn say 'sup

Ah, ahoy the Toms from me. Will be hitting old London town once the time in the Shengen area gets perilously close.

Aside from that...

I'll be pretty much here:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hahmaj%C3%A4rventie,+Haukij%C3%A4rvi,+Finland&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=61.563103,23.093348&sspn=0.012323,0.042272&t=h&doflg=ptk&hnear=Hahmaj%C3%A4rventie,+Finland&z=13

I don't think I will be able to make it to Helsinki from there (will need to arrange dropoffs, pickups, trains, and accommodation). Reckon you guys want to go to Tampere for an evening? It's two hours on the train. Helsinki is grebt by the way.

Also it's my birthday on the 13th, I will be v. sad if no one I know is there. Tampere is apparently the Manchester of Finland.

P.S. where are you beforehand? BYO liquor if you can, it's absurdly expensive here (by that, read 'slightly cheaper than Australia').

surrey hills is a short walk and chockablock of breakfast places!!

Yeah I knew that/was near there/did just that. It was ok, its no melb tho.

hoooi edwardo. hb s–. i am in all of the beijings.

I've only been in some of the beijings, so I am envious

It was ok, its no melb tho.

If there's one thing I've found exciting about the 26 different towns and cities I've been to in the last five months, it's that they're all exactly the same

i see a pattern emerging

I dunno, I wouldnt compare queanbeyan to anywhere else in a hurry.

sic, in my head i can see you o_Oing every city you went to

loool one of the other artists at this place is from Queanbeyan

hmmm, I doubt we can jaunt into the wilds that far at night, unless we can get back the same night? are looking at ferrying to Tallinn one daytime, just for the fun of countryhopping, though.

also depends on when Tuomas can FAP.

#priorities

oh hai I saw snow for the first time in pragues. it was ok

snow_informer.jpg

not to brag guys but right now I'm in COFFS HARBOUR (HOME OF THE BIG BANANA)

*coffs*

You must go to Tallinn. It is my favourite city in the whole world.

^^^ Tallinn is pretty rad. And so cheap! And free public transport.

Any further plans?

Basically three nights each in Prague -> Sthlm -> Helsinki -> Oslo. Then ed stays in Oslo an extra night or two.

I'm leaving actual in-city plans to edwardo, so I guess it's a tour of sites where Eurovision #13 placers were written.

Weeeelll...

I could come to Helsinki to meet you guys.

For reals tho go to Estonia first, I need a few things from the bottle shops(s).

What dates

We're in on the nights of 15th, 16th, 17th December.

we can totally do an arvo in tallinn

my cunting phone won't charge. this is bi-curious and I have no idea how I will be contactable (I guess my oz number) for kit.

do you have two phones?

meet you at the hostel tomorrow about 14:00, if for some reason you read this thread but not your email

stirmonstre also says "ooh you MUST go to Tallinn!" so

I'm pretty sure it only takes 90 mins on the fast ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. You could do that in half a day if you needed to.

Recommend drinking cider at this pub http://www.hellhunt.ee/eng/headquarters

There was also a crepe place we went to which was amazing, but I can't remember any of the deets. Will ask Miss R and report back.

It was this place apparently http://www.kompressorpub.ee/?lang=en

Fast ferry only runs regularly during the on season, we had to take the Tallink one that took three hours each way.

There's also this bar

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1451599_10151796895680642_995728359_n.jpg

Unfortunately the old Soviet prison is shut until May

Hey mongs, how are things w/yr new PM/gov? Still an endless vista of John Key over this side of the ditch, eesh.

bad, very bad

The only good news is it is SO bad even a lot of lib voters are going "hang on a minute now, thats not what you promised...."

oi sic did u get my email?

yeah but no further planning has occurred yet. Ed and I are going to an ice bar in Prague tonight though.

enjoy the slamming

Oh hai, we met Tuomas. And we are going to mention this on EVERY THREAD on the entirety of ILX. But here first.

were any babies harmed

No.

what is a tuomas idgi

joeks

Did you yell ARE YOU FINNISH!? at him.

http://ih3.redbubble.net/image.12857330.7724/sticker,375x360.png

No, but I did run down the streets of Helsinki yelling "THE RASMUS! DARUDE! FUCK YEAH".

Haaaaaa :)

btw who among us is doing matmos in jan?

didn't even know they woz coming!

shit news baout the empress - hope whatever the family issues are improve but doesn't sound good

i have a theory on what these family issues are, completely unsubstantiated, that one member of the family doesn't want to close it and the rest have an issue with that