Oodles and Oodles of Noodles for Poodles
Arrived in Copenhagen at some stupidly early hour of the morning (around 3pm) and headed towards the docks for the WESTERDAM. After a long wait and a kind of breezy safety demonstration (involving bright orange life jackets *shudders*) we were setting sail for Tallinn, Estonia.
Thursday 21st July
Still sailing... Kind of a tedious boring day.
Friday 22nd July
DOCKED!!! Arrived at Tallinn at some incredibly vomit worthy time (about 5 AM!). Went on a walking tour around. Was kind of fun. We went to a load of old markets and bought some knitted winter stuff (gloves, hat, scarf) and a shot glass, and other random junk.
Saturday 23rd July
Docked at St Petersberg, Russia. Will be here for two days. We went on some kind of tour (all recollection of what i actually did truly escapes me though, except I know I spent all of my money)... Oh yeah. We went to the Russian Vodka museum. Was kind of dull until it got round to tasting the Vodkas. I honestly couldn;t tell the difference between the cranberry, the honey, and just the plain vodka. They all tasted the same. Nice though. Even though I hate vodka. And I couldn't eat the food. Was all Meaty or Caviarish. So I waited until we were back on the boat with their fucking exceptional service.
Sunday 24th July (Happy Birthday to Tom)
Still in St Petersberg. We went on a little tour around St Peterberg on this day. I have a photo of some sort of Saint, i think, who is on a horse that has a snakes tail or something. I dunno. I had my iPod on and wasn't really listening. I got a little bored at this point, but it was still pretty ok.
Monday 25th July
We docked in Helsinki, Finland. We went on a little boat tour around the lakes and stuff and I got sme pictures of some pretty houses and stuff (seriously, I'm not the kind to find arcitecture pretty, but it was nice) and we passed one of Kimi raikkonen's homes. Very posh area. Very pretty too.
Tuesday 26th July
Oh my gosh was this the best day? Me thinks it was. We docked in Stockholm, Sweden. And we went for a little tour bus ride around. looking at stuff. And then... We went to the best place in the entire world. The Ice Bar, which is sponcered by Absolut Vodka, so was highly potent with Vodka, let me tell you. And everything was made of ice. except the ceiling and floor. It was in a large air tight container (like a giant freezer) and everyone put on ponchos to go in. Silver ponchos. And gloves. You needed them. It was -5 degrees inside. And we went in and there were huge ice sculptures (what of, I have no idea, but they looked so cool (pun not intended)) and there were blocks of ice that were sort of hollowed out on the inside, with the shape of a bottle (of vodka?) and the glasses were made of ice too. Like blocks with a hollowed out bit the size of a shot glass. And then the bar tender man came in a poured everyone drinks (he had a furry hat on, ask me at school and I'll show you pictures of everything) and I had a passionfruit juice.
Wednesday 27th July
Docked at Visby, Sweden. We didn't go out though. I had a really bad migrain and only left the room for dinner because I felt like I would faint if I didn't eat something.
Thursday 28th July
And then we docked in Germany. A place called Warnemunde? Or something like that. We went on a bus and then we went walking on what was the hottest day (about 30-32 degrees) of the holiday. I bought a incense burner with a silver Buddha on it. And then we went on a little boat trip back to the ship.
Friday 29th July
And on this, our final day, we were back in Denmark, but not in Copenhagen. Oh no. We were in Aarhus (or Arhus, it's spelt differently all over the damn city) where we visited an old town type thing. It was a little boring. And then it rained. And there were black horses. Pulling carts on cobbles. It was like heaven. Very pretty. But before all this, in the morning there was a little disembarkation talk, which was cool. People got champagne, orange juice, or a mixture of the two. I had orange. We also got chocolate covered strawberries. Yummy! And then the cruise director man (I think thats what he did) told some bad jokes that everyone laughed at. Especuially one about foldng toilet paper to a point, and prunes. Worth a giggle. And then the crew went up onto the stage and sang a song and said goodbye with sparkly ribbons.
Saturday 30th July (Happy Birthday to George)
Docked in Copenhagen. The fog was so thick that you couldn't see the water from the boat. Really cool. And we went for breakfast. Very early Vomit worthy time again (6.30 am) and then disembarked at 7.30. Our flight was delayed almost an hour, so I ended up sleeping on the ice cold wooden floor outside gate D102 (the gate that the Copenhagen to Heathrow flightwas supposed to be on) only to be woken up 3 hours later because they'd changed the gate and we had to run across the whole damn thing to platform A17. Where we then had to sit for another hour and a half (more sleep). Then onto the plane, where I slept some more. And then the runway was backed up when it came to landing time. So that was an extra 20 minutes in the sky, during which time I was thinking about how the hell can an object as heavy as a fucking plane stay in the sky. I mean, birds, fine, they're light. But a plane? If a plane, why not you or me? Or Aunty P? Or the Poodle from down the lane?
Anyway, I got home safe (please don't boo and hiss too loudly, the Gods may hear and strike you down dead) and I missed the last few days at school. And I missed everyone (nearly everyone) and I hope you missed me too (again, don't disagree too loudly...)
But most of all, yes... Most of all... I missed my cats *said in sleazy bodyrockers manner*

