Day one Thursday 21st July, 2011-07-22 Helsinki to near Jyvaskyla I arrived ABSOLUTELY exhausted from being in a seat for twelve hours. The plane was about 20 minutes ahead of schedule which the captain was very keen to inform the passengers. The time was 6:10 am Helsinki time and the weather was a warm 20 degrees Celsius. Beautiful except for the fact that my butt was numb, I’d managed about three hours sleep since leaving home at 7:00 the previous morning, and my body clock was screaming it’s two thirty in the afternoon and I want out of here. Apparently there is a limit of how much plane travel I can handle. Disembarking went without a hitch, but who in their right mind thought that a fully loaded handbag, a seven kilo carryon bag and a
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