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Hotel bar. Dream! This section, purely vodka. See you tomorrow! 

Swedish sushi nights and art galleries

I love Sweden. It's unfairly attractive blue eyed people and mass of sushi places. We had a beautiful time. 2 days, free to do as we please (gig got cancelled due to festival being pulled- not complaining!) Arrived not very fresh off the boat to the hotel about 7am. Questioned sleep instead went for a swim and sauna. Showered then straight out to wonder round, buy all the tourist toot (whizbag and Lydia, you have so many presents!!) abuse H&M and eat pistachio ice cream. 

Sam's been here few times before and knows a restaurant The XX opened and has a superb reputation as being the best sushi place in whole of Stockholm. Did not disappoint. Can't even describe the epicness of delight my taste buds went through. Food I hadn't even dreamed of (braised tempura ox cheek, what!) sweet potato and squid sashimi uhhh I was so happy. 

Yesterday I wanted culture so dragged Sam to the Museum of Modern art, amazing! Jean Paul Gautier exhibition including all the original templates and draw ups for Madonna's blonde ambition 90's corsets. Discovered 2 new artists that I'm now in love with. Saw original Eva Hesse, Warhol and Bacon (love! Love! Love!) I was so happy and pottered around all afternoon. In the eve I enjoyed even more sushi and got an early night, anticipating the 6am wake up call today woo it's gravy. Back to work world now. Currently say waiting at the airport, flights delayed, chicken Kiev will have to wait. All my love and kisses to back home. Seen footage of Glastonbury, looks wet! Good luck to all that are there. Strange, mind that hole !!! Lots of love x

Sushi Sweden!

Halooo and greetings from the Swedish land. We have crossed many waters, driven many miles and arrived safe and hungover. Sweden is beautiful! Very cool. Spent a lovely few hours in Helsinki before boarding the ferry. 

 Obligatory sightseeing. Sam did explain what the statue represents, alas I forget.. 

 Finnish mannequins! Very much enjoying the bashy seductive ones. Well done Europe, well done. 

 Glorious soviet bar we stumbled across, excellent food, great service and they let us sample grapefruit, mango and cranberry vodka! Win!

 Hi! I'm in Finland tourist selfie.

 Finnish geese whiz bag! 

It was lovely. Big fan of Scandinavia, would like chance to explore and spend more time here.

On to the love boat! What fun. It was like a cruise with our own individual cabins, supermarket, duty free shops, bars, restaurant/cafes, clubs etc. very impressed and had fun wondering around mingling with the fellow passengers. Had a couple of drinks, we all did, then ran away with a bottle of wine to watch the sunset. 

Beautiful. 

Not so beautiful stuffing our faces with Tofiffee whilst watching the sun go down 

Some amazing houses nestled in the little islands. Holiday home dream!

and me 4.30am this morn, waking up to get off and continue our driven journey.

Huuuuuuumungus shout out and love to the golden grapefruit, Beki Gowing who graduates Brighton with a first :) brimming with pride for you my girl. Well the fuck done xxx

From Russia to Finland to Stockholm

A lot of driving, border control and interrupted sleep. Soon to be on the thing they call the love boat.. What could possibly go wrong?!

All in all, St P'berg definitely a lot nicer than Moscow- more friendly, lively vibe. Get a few days off once we get to Sweden (sort of). Looking forward to over priced sushi and beautiful scenery. 

Few snaps of venue and tour life below. As ever, much love and kisses to all back home xx

Kit playing art attack with his slightly racist banana leaf mask..

Moi, chilling by the buses having a cup of tea. Believe it or not 11.50pm in this pic, it never seems to get dark in Russia! So far north I guess..

Represent with the Beat the Street mug

Our life on buses.

Only in Russia

Moscow!

After surviving the oh so many many submarine ride and custom hours we're here and have had the most lovely day off full of sight seeing, ice cream, boat trips and a little bit of vodka :) dreamy but Moscow is definitely not a city you feel safe in and we walked around whispering/feeling like we were being watched and judged a lot..

I'm in Moscow !!

Best graffiti. 

The boys 

Possibly the best street art. This is an almighty dream- everyday I want to be this lizard.

Led Zeppelin animal balloon 

Red square. Tourist.

Ouch.

Really enjoyed this chap mowing the lawn. Dungarees, no shirt- strong look.

Such love.

Beers on the boat 

Stop off in Lithuania, onwards to russia!!

What a delight. After 20 hour bus ride we arrived safely for a stop off in Lithuania. Evening and morning off, now back on the bus, onwards to Russia. Vodka here we come.

Collection of Lithuanian pics below. Missing everyone, covered in bruises and sleep deprived but happy xx

Unexplained garnish bike display 

Possibly the scariest mannequin 

Old subway gypsy woman 

Tourist.

Also, amazing sunrise driving through Poland. Dreamy.