Saturday, February 24, 2007

11 days to go

I'm leaving for Estonia on the 8th March. I'm very excited! I'm flying to Munich and spending 4 nights there as Schmuck will be on. I'll also try and check out the Academy.

I'll be staying in a tragic backpackers but I've booked a single room. I was speaking to Teresa Lane, who shares a studio in the room next to my studio, who also happens to have spent 6 months in Tallinn last year. I was describing the backackers in Munich to her and she said 'oh, that's the one with the nightclub downstairs'. I'll be packing my earplugs.

I've booked to stay at a cheap hostel in the old town of Tallinn for the first week and then I'll be moving into a beautiful but expensive apartment near the academy. After much deliberation and consultation with my friends (thankyou) I decided that I was too old for 'share accommodation' and that I will need a sanctuary while I'm there, with a bath, cable tv and wireless internet!

I'll try and post again before I leave.

Interior Decorating

We are now, officially, a studio of four.

It was agonising (how do you rearrange what's been in place for 12 years!), hard work (if you don't already know, jewellery benches are HEAVY) and bloody dirty (we were all blowing black boogers for a couple of days afterwards)!

But here's how it looks....

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this is Lisa's spot...

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Cass is squashed in here...

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And this is my galley...

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with my new ikea shelves...

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this is Nicky's spot, she's skiing in Aspen...

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the new lounge....

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the library!...

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and the view out of my new window...

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of the backpackers...

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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Estonia Update

Oh My God!!!

I've just realised that the Eurovision Song Contest is on the 12th May in Helsinki!

Helsinki is a short ferry trip from Tallinn!!!

I am sooooo there.

flight's booked for the 8th March.

*UPDATE*

Eurovision is sold out and sold out in December! Doh!

*2ND UPDATE*

Just looked on ebay for eurovision tickets and a 'finals package' ticket just sold for GBP 999, that's two and a half THOUSAND dollars folks!! Looks like I might just be watching it on the telly. At least I'll get to vote.