I have arrived in Helsinki! Luckily both Ken and Yu Sarn are already here, so settling in was a breeze.

So now, I sit in the salle at eight o’clock in the morning, sipping tea and eating Rye bread for breakfast.

One thing about being so far up north during the summer, is that the sky doesn’t really get dark, even in the middle of the night.

Flight and connection was smooth, the only problem being that I was made to throw away my brand-new bottle of contact lens solution at the borading gate. %$#@! Security measures! %$#@! Terrorists who caused these measures! Anyway, I thought that it wouldn’t be a problem, as I can simply buy a new bottle after I’ve arrived… but on getting here, I was told that NOTHING would be open today, seeing as today is Mid-summer’s Day, the one day of the year when the city of Helsinki shuts down completely…

Oh well.

We now await the final member of the Singaporean division of the Golden Horde, as the Finns are calling the attendees of the Fiore training camp.

On with the training!