I’m feeling a bit weak after a night out experiencing the dark side of Finland, the side that drinks to excess and then keeps on drinking. Cafe Esplanad is the other side of Finland. People eating salads, drinking coffee, reading newspapers, two people holding what looks like a business meeting: a woman sits at a …
French films from the 30s and 40s showing today in Helsinki. LA BÊTE INTOXICATION IHMISPETO , tuition Jean Renoir , French 1938 Jacques Pelvis Jean Gabin ) is höyryveturin chauffeur , which enduring tajuttomuuskohtauksista and hallitsemattomista väkivallan purkauksista. Jealousy asemapäällikön wife Séverine Simone Simon ) decide next conquer quiet and retiring Lantierin. Romance began and …
Before I forget then I’ll write down my dream of last night: I’m travelling with Tony Blair and we stop over in Iran to visit a school. Sitting in the classroom with Tony watching the kids lesson I ask if it would be alright if I take out my camera and take some photos. They …
There’s a church on a hill by the port of Helsinki, a red brick building with gold balls sitting on the spires, making it look a bit Islamic but I think it’s a Russian orthodox church. I went in there today, just as a christening was starting. Tourists and people who’d just walked in were …
In the Roger Otip story “Executioners from the future” (which was originally titled “Ignorance is no defense” but the former title was felt by the publishers to be more marketable in Yankeeland and more likely to lead to a movie deal) the judges and the bailiffs (who carry out the arrests) and the jury are …
New images of the Ice Hotel in Kiruna, Sweden have just been uploaded to the Europe website.
Sitting in the MBar internet cafe, a tendy place with free wifi, which they call WLAN here. There’s WLAN in the hostel I’m staying in as well, Erottajanpuisto, which sounds like it might be erotic, but it isn’t. It is very good though. Old fashioned and small, but friendly and comfortable, and not full of …
It must have been about 3 o’clock (in one time zone or the other) when I found my way down to the 2nd deck, below the car deck, and managed to get into my top bunk in the dark, I think without waking anyone. Someone’s alarm went off, then mine went off. I heard someone …
Travelling alone One advantage of travelling is that when you’re travelling it is acceptable to be alone. When you arrive it can be difficult to find a restaurant to eat in or a bar to drink in where you don’t feel uncomfortable because you’re on your own. I was sitting in a bar in Bergen, …