Poesiloe shows me around

I got to Helsinki on the 20th.

I was in the same plane than Dorothée , the lead singer and guitarist of Hopper (www.myspace.com/wearehopper) . they played in China in april or may or something i forgot when but i really digged their show at Mao live.
She's gonna be playing with The Do (www.myspace.com/thedoband) in the next days, but i'll be gone by then but Pauline, you should check them out.


I stay at Poesiloe's , Helsinki's funniest-craziest-nicest guy. He wears glasses that are archives from the social services of USSR or something.
He and Antti came to pick me up at the airport, which was super nice and on the first night Poesiloe decided that we should go to Tallinn ,the capital of Estonia the next day! and we did it!












We woke up early with a slight hang over , runned to the ferry terminal and 1 and a half hour after we were in the beautiful little town of Tallin, which made me think of a mix between old Prussia, Italy , and North Carolina ... yeah the architecture is pretty interesting there.



The old city is full of tourist and local teenagers making their summer pocket money dressed as medieval lads and selling medievally made candies.











After visiting the museum of torture instruments we had a heavy meal at a ukrainian restaurant where they had just the same food as in Yabaolu or Traktiir , which made me think of China of course.
after my baked salmon i could hardly move and i felt horrible when we saw how estonians got into fitness and wellness and stupid outdoor sports since their independance, while we crossed the main park to go to Muku the contemporary art museum. There were tons of women all dressed in plastic clothes walking around with ski sticks.... pppffff....
when we got to Kumu it was already closed of course .We realized that we had spent way too long at the Depeche Mode bar in between the ukrainian salmon and the park... but i didn't have any regret for the Depeche mode bar was quite something! there was a woman there, a complete freak&fan of DM dancing like she was on amphetamines in the middle of the stinky dancefloor, she knew and loved ALL the songs.
I asked to the unfriendly bartender to play "everything counts" for me , i was very happy .














We walked back to the pier , it was half raining half sun-shining so a rainbow showed up on the sea, it was beautifull.