A quickie from the library

I'm back in the public library, so I've only got a few mins.

After the night sleeping on the floor at Christopher's place, I decided it would be best for my back to find somewhere else to sleep, also somewhere near to the centre of the city so that I wouldn't have to risk getting busted on the tube again without a ticket.
So, after a little couch search, I stayed last night with a lovely married couple, Gia and Jari.
What a couple of hosts they turned out to be!
We had a barbecue, as well as drinking plentiful amounts of alcohol (I was feeling pretty rough this morning. If anyone ever offers you Apfel Brand, just say no!)
3 friends of theirs also joined us for the evening and we stayed up playing board games and basically getting intoxicated.
I slept like a baby on probably the most comfortable fold-down couch-like thing I've ever experienced, before being served a steaming hot bowl of porridge for breakfast. Until I came here, I thought it was only the Scots who can't start the day without porridge, now I see I was wrong as all 3 homes I've stayed in here insist on starting the day the same way.

I was only able to stay there for 1 night, as Gia is heading to Argentina for a little holiday this weekend, so at 1 in the afternoon I met my 4th host in Helsinki, Elise. She's working alot and also writing her thesis for university, meaning I'm pretty much free to explore the city alone for the next couple of days, before flying down to Athens on Monday and then from there back to England on Thursday, thanks to my uncle Michael who has sorted out my flight home. Technically, once I've spent the first night in Athens, I'm allowed to start spending money as the challenge will be completed. But, this only works in theory, as I actually don't have a single penny to my name, meaning that I still needed my uncle's help otherwise I would've been hitching all the way home.

More to follow later, including photos......