After setting the alarm clock wrong and getting up 45mins late, we got to Stansted car park shortly after 4am, checked in, mooched around and made our way to Gate 1 to board our easyJet Airbus A319 to Tallinn - a tiny airport.
Tallinn time is 2 hours ahead of UK, so we had time to have a quick look around the city centre and get some food, despite the patchy rain. Last night we had free wifi in our room (though it was WPA, which Thinky didn’t seem to like). Today, after a 20 hour sleep (Donov stayed up later) we have been given a room upgrade for free. now we have a TV phone and better bathroom - but its out of reach of the wifi so I have to sit in reception on a swanky chair instead to blog.
Today it seems a bit sunnier so we might go and take some pictures for you.
Hi all.
Today I booked a summer holiday for Donov and me!
We are going to Tallinn, capital of Estonia, partly because Donov wants to meet some people he plays an online game called EVE with, partly because of the cheap economy and interesting culture and because it’s unexpected! (Well until I’ve made the announcement it was).
We plan to depart in the early hours of Wednesday, 11th July 2007 and fly with easyJet from Stansted Airport. Only now do I learn that this is the exact date that the rest of the family are returning from Ibiza. Charles doesn’t want Fraser (the dog) to be left alone for 12 hours, so he will have to go into kennels on the sole night of Tuesday, 10th July 2007.
We will stay in Tallinn for exactly 1 week, coming back on Wednesday, 18th July 2007. One thing I have learnt about Estonia is it has an extraordinarily high amount of free wifi coverage all over the whole country, so we can update this blog throughout the holiday using my Kubuntu laptop, now that I have installed the new Broadcom 43xx drivers for Linux (which, incidentally, still refuses to work in Green’s Cafe.)
