Jack and Katrina's Place

Arriving on a warm blue summers morning in Helsinki we were met by our friend Hamish and his step-father-in-law Timmo, who took us back to Anna's mother's house in the Northeastern suburbs of Helsinki. We rested the next day, I hadn't slept much on the ferry, between watching the sunset/rises and the being awoken by inebriated teenagers milling about in the corridors.

The ferry From Finland to Sweden and back is a favourite weekend excusion for Finnish Teenagers, the Mariehamm Islands have special duty free status for alcohol purchases. The long twilight makes it seem like it's about 5:oo pm for around 6 hours. This means that by 11:00pm you couldn't walk up the stairwells without stepping over girls in party dresses sobbing on their friends shoulders. Meanwhile up on deck the rails were lined with shirtless youths mutteringly "Dude, I totally love her and everything but, oh , I'm so hammered" They were saying all this in Finnish of course but the body language translates everytime. Anyway in between the teeneagers I took this midnight photo taken as the ship pulled in to the Mariehamm islands halfway across. This is the midnight sun from 61 deg North, and about as dark as it got all night. I didn't take any photos of the girls, but actually, they looked like the ones from ABBA, only smaller.

Resting back at Anna's Mother's house, Guy had a feed of mushed vegetables from Hamish. He wasn't sure at first and then he discovered how yummy mixed vegetables can be and shared them with his whole face.