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Looks like I made it to Finland!

The day of the 28^th started with a 4am wake-up call turning into a mad dash of 'repack and wear what you can because it appears that we're over our 20kg limit'. Bus caught and a farewell said to Tom (cheers for the crash pad) soon left us standing a little dazed on the bus to the airport, peanut butter and jelly sandwhich in hand.

Check-in and apparently my bag would have been fine if I'd left: that extra t-shirt, a pair of shorts, a bag, cables and other micellaneous junk IN the rucksack because it only came to 17.9kg! Whereas I was freaking roasting and my carry on was now pretty hefty.

Flight was A-OK and we were greated by an intense blast of warm air. Finland was hotter and more humid than the Edinburgh we'd left behind. That extra kilgram of clothing was definitely being shed now. Next, the bus to Tampere, which was caught all very efficiently. Just missing the train from Tampere to Turku we had to sit in the train station for about 3 hours for the next one. Safe to say we did a lot of people watching.

Eventually on the train only to discover that they're epic! Double decker and all round cool. We arrived in no time and was greeted by Noora, our Finnish buddy, who took us swiftly to our new places.

The flat is what you'd expect – really white and pretty spare. As I am writing this I've just realised that I've not put up the curtains which came in my starter pack (yeah, THAT spare). This starter pack is pretty... interesting. Useful and useless all at the same time – quite the little paradox in a box. I think the tin opener is my favourite, it's like some kind of stainless steel tooth or claw. 

 

So all settled now: all unpacked, fed and even cracked open the blu-tac. I think after a much needed trip to IKEA tomorrow (bed sheets, please) I can definitely call this home. :)

(This is where I was guna upload a little video tour of my flat, but it's not letting me, so perhaps another time...)