Sight-Seeing
We spent yesterday in Tallinn, Estonia, which was just a two-hour ferry ride away from Helsinki.
Tallinn’s main attraction is a pretty well preserved medieval town, and the whole place has a carnival feel, with the residents dressed in medieval garb, selling attractions, snacks and other wares.
Highlight of the trip was a full medieval meal in a restored tavern, Old Hansa. For starters, we had a mushroom soup with herbed bread and dried elk meat, which was kind of like beef jerky, but tougher. For the main, I chose the Wild Boar platter, with rather interesting sides of Onion Jam, Sauerkraut and berries. All that washed down with a strong, dark beer infused with herbs, all served in earthenware crockery.
Training
Training here in Helsinki is a treat ~ the weather is cool, and the humidity low so that you really have to work at it to raise some sweat. Since coming here, we’ve worked on stability drills, syllabus form, and we just spent the morning exploring the defences and counters from the left side, notably from zenghiaro. Ken will probably have a more detailed and scholarly discourse on our training progress, I won’t go too much into details.
Food
Surprisingly or maybe unsurpsiringly, I’ve taken on the job of Head Cook for the Singaporean contigent of the Golden Horde, so I’ll be preparing meals for the rest of the guys. Pictures, when I have some time to take them 
