Beer for breakfast

Just back from a warm and sunny trip to Hellsinki/Finland. Warm - yes! It' was a bit warmer than in Hamburg and much warmer than we expected. We already started with a shock in Hamburg in the early morning: Our friendly driver didn't know by then that Gluecifer have split up. So we were pretty close to an accident even before we got on the plane. The Finnair flight was nice and normal - and announcing 1168 km to go.
How could I forget that those few kilometers sometimes mean a change in culture? *grin*

So we were warmly (again) welcomed by our host for the next few days with an ice cold Lapin Kulta. And it was close to impossible to become sober on the whole thursday... So being in Helsinki started to feel like a smooth hangover without being drunk the day before - almost surreal. We stayed in Tikkurila, or, as Pekka Kasari (see below) told me "the place where the most (in) famous night club of Finland is". Well, the suburban kids running around on the streets at night didn't look like they're old enough to enjoy it themselves...

We spend most of the thursday in Kallio at Janne's new job - em, bar. At "Saloon Arizona" we learned to know nice people like "Space Pekka. actually we're four Pekkas here who come to the saloon regularly". Nice, weird alcoholism.

Well, I have my theory on drinking alcohol & Finland, but I doubt I have enough time for that right now.

There at Saloon Arizona the next funny thing happened on the tv screen while we were drinking and talking: A kind of TV reality soap (well, literally) cleaned up the CCPC studio of good old mate Sande. Hahahaha! First I wasn't sure if it really was Sande on the screen, maybe because of the huge guy standing beside him. Two days on I was introduced to him - hey Pasi. Nico marvelously managed to stay outside of this tv thing.

The friday the famous Tuska Metal Fest started, and I skip the review of all the bands and most of the circumstances here, go to the Web magazine if you wanna read who played how. 'kay, it's in German, I know...

Well, it was too much fun, all in all!