Oh-oh - more than a week without any news :-(

I will have to work on this, and tell you exactly what happened. But later - too many people around right now asking me to stop playing around, and start helping them with the next party.
Yeah well - you will read more from me, eventually...
And here it goes:
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Tuesday was a verry lazy day at home in Riihimäki. When Sami came back from work, I did some cooking, and we sat each in his/her own room, eating and chatting online. Well, the other chatters thought we were crazy, but we enjoyed not to have to talk too much. ;-)
Later Sami joined me in my room, but we still chatted online. Nice!
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Next morning we left early to get to Sami's office, from where I went on by train to Helsinki. In my winter coat. Sun shining, 27 degrees. I felt so ridiculous!
Still I saw most of the places Theriel had told me about or even shown me, and found quite a few beautiful ones. I went to the City Museum, which definitely is worth a visit, and then on to some bookstores, where I bought this funny whossname: "You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing".
In a supermarket I browsed around for some typical finnish food to take home, and got Marianne and Salmiakki. Joanna, the Erasmus student I had met in Cadiz in April, had given me some of these delicious peppermint chocolate sweets and liquorice, and told me their names , so I knew what to look for.
After work Sami took me to the airport. How sad to have to leave him! I hope we'll meet again...
In Berlin it was freezing cold. But warm in my good old flat. One hour later, Psytek aka Roberto from Padova arrived at my place. He had meant to hitchhike to the big Berlin Beach Camp on whitsuntide, but was lucky and found Franz, an HC-member from Bavaria, in Munich, who took him and his friend Tiziano all the way to Berlin.
I knew Roberto from chat, and we had had a lot of fun together there, so of course I had agreed to host him. And he was as friendly in real life as in chat!
We had döner at my favourite turkish place, and beer at Café Mirell. Nice to be back home! And with friends!
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Late to bed, up early! We had to meet Pulina and her sister Sussin at Tegel airport, and Maikel from Oss at Schonefeld. Biiiggg smiles and hugs when we met the girls from Helsinki, then on through Berlin from far northwest to far southeast to meet dear old Maikel, the guy whom I never had seen before, but who will lend me his tent for Rock Werchter, and whom I will travel with thru Finland in July. Such a nice, reliable friend! He even sent me an sms saying he would wear an orange t-shirt. But how could I miss him? I knew his pic, and he's tall, and nice, and carrying his backpack. How many of his kind would be around the airport?
So a few more kisses and squeezes - we all knew each other from chat! - and on to the Beach Camp in Grünau. Yeah well - bit cold and rainy for a beach camp. Theriel had been joking all the time about snow in Berlin, and actually it was quite close to that.
We arrived early, but there was already a friendly crowd, setting up tents, laughing, chatting, greeting long lost friends, drinking. We were lucky and had a nice cozy corner for the chat gang. Click on the pic and find from middle to right: Roberto, Maikel, Pulina, two others, Sussin, me - curly red hair, always easy to make out.
Patrick, Dorota and Caesar build up their tents close to ours soon afterwards. I knew Patrick and Caesar from Helsinki (and chat), and Dorota had sent me some mails asking about the Berlin museums.
That idea was great, and since museums are open till 10 pm on thursday, and the entrance is free, some friends joined us on our trip through Berlin and the Museumsinsel. Tiziano took some pics: check here.
They went back to Grünau, and I went back home to my cozy, comfortable, warm flat - and chat.
Friday, June 2, 2006
Another day at the camp - and I managed to get a bottle of champagne just for myself in the local shop - always kept nice and cold all day. :-)
It was one of those lazy days, with nothing much to do but enjoy your time hanging around with some old and lots of new friends. In the pic you can easily distinguish me (red, curly hair) besides Sussin, and Syd (?) from Tallinn.
Monday, June 5, 2006
My sister and her daughters left after this cold, but nice weekend, and Patrick came riding on his bike, bringing Maikel's tent and my sleepingbag that had saved Ghoti and Catflower, if not their lifes, but at least their butts. I had offered to host him if he felt like resting a bit after two weeks of non-stop-partying in Helsinki and Berlin, and he decided he needed the break.