A boat trip to Tallinn
I wandered back to the hotel, through Helsinki’s dark, icy streets. Past the brutish contrasts of the heavy, carved stone of Central Station, looking like a set piece from a Gothic Batman movie, and the blinking illuminated signs on the side of the angular glass office buildings. After packing the essentials into a back-pack I flicked robotically through the TV channels, from CNN to the Russian variety show and the