Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Independence Day Date: 24 Jul 2024 23:11:25 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <6fd963b2-ed0e-e10d-01a5-046b14806299@example.net> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="1894"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1779 Paul Dormer wrote: >In article <6fd963b2-ed0e-e10d-01a5-046b14806299@example.net>, >nospam@example.net (D) wrote: > >> Another nice stockholm/helsinki option is to take the ferry. Very >> cheap, and good price on food and alcohol too due to some weird legal >> EU exception. > >Well, yes, that's what I did. London to Cologne, Cologne to Hamburg, >Hamburg to Stockholm, Stockholm to Helsinki. I looked at taking the train from Stockholm to Helsinki and it's kind of possible (although there is a short bus trip in the middle) but of course involves going up very far north and coming back down. It's not a short trip although it looks like it might be fun in the summer. It, or the ferry, would have been a much better plan than my flight from Stockholm to Helsinki through London, which was the only flight I could get because there was a Finland-Sweden hockey match taking place at the time and all seats everywhere were booked. I did make it to Helsinki but my luggage all remained in London. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."