Off to Finland, oh make that Estonia

Well all good things must come to an end, and with approaching fronts we decided it was time to get on our way to Helsinki.

weather....

And in the Finnish archipelago everything looks much nicer!

Helsinki is a most attractive city from the air...

Here the port with some of the archipelago in the background

All those nicely renovated and maintained classical buildings.

In Helsinki we had to accept that all good things come to an end sooner rather than later, after 3h on the ground we admitted our defeat after finding only one hotel room available in the whole city (for €215 a night), took our bikes apart and headed off to nearby Talinn, Estonia, after checking that accomodation was no problem there (and more like €40 a night).

Permit to Fly!!!!

Gary called last night to say that he has our permit to fly, we were worried that this step might take a long time, so we're very pleased to be able to start testing soon and maybe we'll still make it to the Finnish fly-in!

Feel free to crack open the champagne and celebrate with us!

And here is a random photo of Bruce (Gary's puppy) who spent all morning helping me by biting my hair & pulling it and biting my ears, whilst I was lying on the mechanics bench you see in the photo....