Sunday late evening my airplane from Finland landed in Muinch. Now I have the time to write more about Operation Arctica Snowstorm. I will split the days to single blog now the first day of the operation. Bad news i have to cancel the documention because of technical problems with my cam. Sorry.
Thursday, April 14th 2011
It was 3:15AM, I woke up thanks to my dog, Snoop barked because of a cat or our squatter - the marten. 3:15 in the morning and in 45min my regular wake-up call will ring. Thank you to Snoop, so I had a shower and went outside with my dog. The last time for us two, I felt uneasy to leave my lovly dog back in Germany, but we have to accomplish a importan mission- Snoop will not be alone, he will have 24/7care. A misson in the land "where in the summer the sun never set down", the land of ice and snow, the land of the reindeers, the land of the endless widths. A mission in the homeland of the best Power Metal Band in the world.
After that I had to kill time, because just at 5:30AM we will start out for the operation. I checked mails, heard music, checked the 4th time my baggage, flighttickets check, hotelreservation check, concerttickets check .... check check check.
5:30AM we start the engines and with every second of this journey we got closer to our operation area *ggg* Short stop to pick up my friend Patrick who travel with me to Finland.
With lighting speed the reached Airport Munich at 7:10AM, to early becasue we had more then 3hours to the departure of our airplane to Helsinki. Now we had to kill time, walk to Terminal 2, found the McD at the airport etc.
Round about 10AM was time for boarding. In a few minutes we heard the announcement boarding completed. Schedule at 10:20AM the airplane take-off towards Helsinki. On board we got a small snack, sandwich with ham and cheese. Not very delicious. The black tea and water was ok *ggg*
At 1.47PM (finnish time) we reached the airport just 8 minutes then is boarding time to OULU. Outside the airplane short orientation, gate 30 - next gate 18. OMG, WTF (Welcome to Finland), so we had a slalomrun trough the airport.
We are on time, we are in Finland, not more far and we will reach Oulu.
The boarding also be very quickly completed but our baggage was missing so the airplan have take-off at 2:30PM and touch down was 3:35PM in Oulu. A short and very comfortable flight, because we sat at the emergency exit. After arrival we maked a few photos at the airport and when we came into the airportbuilding our bags played merry-go-around at the baggage conveyor belt. FAIL
At 4:05PM we took the bus to OULU City and we reached the hotel. Holiday Inn Oulu near the city round about 2.5km to Club Teatria. Nice clean room, internet, in the basement was a swimingpool, sauna, friendly personal - good choice for a stay in Oulu.
After a short while at our room, we decided to go shopping, sightseeing etc.
The trick was we had both our GPS-reciever in the jacket so we knew all the time where we are, knew where are restaurants, bars, supermarkets and many many more. Are able to find back to hotel without asked some for the right direction.
Short stop at McD to take a fast menu. During we sit in the McD we notice a small group which spoke just english and the the english of one girl sounds very german - exchange student maybe. So we decided when we will bring our trays to the wastebins, we will speak a little bit louder.No sooner said then done! We will never forget the expression of this girl. Our new slogan: Get attention, anytime and anywhere, but this is in Finland not so easy, because the most walked around with stare look. We felt as if we are invisible, in Germany you have the feeling you are everytime observed.
A new sense of freedom.
So we went to the next supermarket and I experimented if McD Food + chocolate filled with liquorice get along well *ggg*
Result: No problems I was already ok.
After this we decided to look which route we have to take to the Club Teatria. I was very easy, the most time just go straight ahead one street. When we reached the Club we took a cursory glance to the inner courtgard. Many trucks, transport stand there, so we noticed that will be tomorrow something big.
9PM we was back in the hotel, check mails, write the short timetable to my blog, want vistited myspace OMG WTF, all in finnish - fortunately I knew what german means in finnish, so I was able to change the language. *happy*
Facebook was in german but I had to exercise a longer security-request. *snarl*
Chat with friends at home, with the family, spoke to my dog via skype, Snoop was very confused and search for me *cry*
Round about 0PM we decide to went of to sleep.
This was day number 1, a hard day, a long journey, many impressions, it was very hard to believe that we was in Finland.
Summary: You are invisible in Finland, you get just spirit and wine in special stores, in supermarkets just beer and cider, in Finland they have curious sweets like chocolate filled with liquorice, the clima in April is very mild. In Germany we had between 20 and 25 °C last days and in Oulu when just 8-10 °C.
Tomorrow more about day number two, the day of the DVD Shooting.
Stay tuned.
Greetz
Kerstin "Kes"
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