Today (yesterday, technically), after two days of intense packing and wrapping and preparing, I closed the door to the apartment for a long while. So long, Lauttasaari island. You have been wonderful to me. On Monday they will begin to tear out the bathroom and the pipes in the entire co-op building.

It is now 2.30 am, I have dug out my blue elephant harem pants, and am about to take off to Singapore after a 3-hour delay. Vacation, thank goodness. And new adventures after that – somewhere else than Finland.(Helsinki, Finland; July 2018)