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[jawnbc]

It's good to be home. Though I've not properly slept in 23 hours. It's now 04h00 in Talinn; I was up at 05h30 GMT+2 (19h30 Vancouver time). I abluted, finished pakcing and my cab arrived. Painless check-in for Estonian Air, scarfed down a yoghurt and espresso and boarded the flight to London. As luck would have it I had 3 seats to myself and I did doze on and off for the 2.5 hour flight to Gatwick. Then it was claim bags, re-enter the UK (yay for EU passports!), board a bus to Heathrow. I got to the Air Canada check-in just after 11h00 (13h00 Tallinn time), knowing there was an earlier departure to Vancouver (at 12h30 versus my already booked 15h00 flight). And I got the booking changed, the bags checked, went through security and they announced boarding. Fairly traipsed up and into my lovely Executive First seat.

Meals was OK (beef a bit tough), but the service was great: a crew of women who liked their jobs still. And Vancouver based, so they understood my excitiement about going home. I read, watched a film, meditated as much as I could given the louts around me blabbering loudly, ate, viewed Eurovision pr0n (1999, Dana on her keester). First off the plane, bags came off quickly, and I was in the apartment by 15h15.

Where I was greeted with:

1. Lovely flowers
2. a bag of Lays
3. a tub of onion dip
4. a very tidy house

Himself tutes tonight until 8 or so. I am endeavouring to stay away. But I have to hit the ground running tomorrow in the office.

Tallinn? Lovely old town but a lot of tension between ethnic Estonians and ethnic Russians. And I wouldn't describe any of them as friendly. Nor rude. Reserved most probably. And the "everyone under the age of 30 speaks English" is a fib: I'd guess half.

Comments

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

You make me want to visit Eastern Europe more and more. My Grandparents visited back in the day when all of it was still beind ye olde iron curtain. They liked it even then.

Glad to have you home.

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

Yay! Sounds like a good time. Welcome home. Maybe see you out.

I remember a friend was going to Japan for a year. I mentioned that he take Japanese classes. He said "why bother, they all know English there". Anyway he discovered that while there are some who are good at it and various anglophiles, most people he ran into knew a little bit but not enough for him to do much. He ended up learning Japanese after all and then doors opened up for him. He ended up speaking it very well actually.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a wonderful time! And you can't beat onion dip.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

What on earth are you meant to do with the onion dip?

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

glad to read you are safe and sound at home! :-) xxoo

Well.......

[paterson-si.livejournal.com]

.......you could stay in Ljubljana a bit longer LOL

[jawnbc]

thanks love. what the fuck is up with the tropic weather though?

[jawnbc]

1. open crisps
2. open dip
3. dip crisps in dip
4. cram dipped crisp in both
5. repeat rapidly
6. brush teeth before the husband gets home.

:)

Re: Well.......

[jawnbc]

I couldn't. And it seemed to complicated to explain to you while there (and Igor).

I booked my original trip, thinking I had to be back home on 09 July (to work on 10th). Then I realized I could take a few more days--though my hotel in London on 08 July was prepaid and I would have lost £60: no changes allowed). But to change the Ljubjana ticket was going to cost about €300.

So instead I checked out cheap flights for 9-12 July, with a return flight early enough to make my 15h00 flight home out of LHR. Since Estonian Air uses Gatwick, that was the best option for a reliable transfer between airports.

I wish I could have stayed longer with you guys. :)

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

I can only encourage step 6!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Obviously we as a people collectively masturbated way too much and now we are being punished by God.