My blog - September 2004
No Change
September 25th 2004, 10:24pm
Still being very busy, but not for long, as I'm off to Kenya on Thursday. Yay! Maybe I'll put my Baltics pictures on here one day, although when I get back I should have so many picutres of Kenya (and hopefully Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania too) that it'll take me forever to get them all sorted.
So I'll keep the blog watchers happy for a while with this picture of a lake in Tampere, Finland.
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Still No Time
September 18th 2004, 9:24pm
I still haven't had time to do anything on this website with my Baltics pictures, although I have had a hundred of them printed at Jessops, including several ten by fifteen inch prints, which look amazing and it's impossible to tell they're from a digital camera. But without any images this page will start to look a bit drab, so here's a small picture of Tallinn to brighten things up.
In the meantime if there are any Latvians reading, can you tell me what they are saying on the busses, trams, trains and trolleybusses when they say 'Maakoma Vietula' every time the vehicle stops? (I haven't a clue how it's supposed to be spelt, but that's what it sounded like.)
And on another note entirely: I've just gained a nephew. Ben was born yesterday sometime in the afternoon, and I don't know any more details than that. I'm looking forward to seeing him while he's still a baby, as I was in Kenya when Shannon was born and didn't see her until she was eight months old or so.
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Comment posted by Maret at 9:24pm on September 18th 2004
wonderful news about little Ben!!!!!!!
lovely picture!!!!!
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Back Home
September 9th 2004, 12:45am
I'm back home, but don't expect much on the website for a while, as I'm knackered and have loads of work to do and a house to move into. And it's half past two in the morning but it feels like half four.
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Leaving The Baltics
September 5th 2004, 6:59pm
Today has been our last full day in "the Baltics" for this trip. Tomorrow we're off to Finland again. Not sure exactly where we'll go, but I'm sure we'll find somewhere!
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Comment posted by Maret at 6:59pm on September 5th 2004
Come back sooooon!!!!We`ve enjoyed having you!!!!!
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Emergency Flower Service
September 4th 2004, 10:39am
Just down the road from our hostel in Riga there's a greenhouse-like shop which is a twenty four hour flower shop. I suppose it's for those early morning flower emergencies.
I'm now on the bus back to Tallinn. It's pretty boring as it's forest nearly all the way.
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Bus To Trakai
September 3rd 2004, 10:47am
As Shay pays the bus driver for his ticket, someone taps on the driver's window:
Person: When does this bus arrive in Trakai?
Bus driver: (Shrugs) I don't know.
Shay: It takes about three quarters of an hour, doesn't it?
Bus driver: I don't know.
Reminds me of when we started our flight to Tampere from Stansted, and the pilot came over the intercom and said we'd be going via Dover, before correcting himself.
We've now gone back to Riga, and today we've taken a train journey down the road to Jurmala. They have the biggest trains I've seen - it's a bit like a house on wheels. With park benches inside. It only cost fifty pence, which is better than back home. The weather is very nice British seaside weather - overcast and drizzly.
Parnu tomorrow perhaps. Or back to Tallinn. Who knows?
(There should be accents on some of those letters, but I don't seem to be able to get them on this computer.)
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