Red lips I know

I spend last summer days in bed. Outside it's getting colder and colder and rains all of the time but in my place there's a blanket and smells like good dinner. I'm not even in my favorite city so leaving the room would be a mistake. Sometimes I make mistakes though.

Catch a breath of country air

I spent weekend in our summer house and there was nothing else to do apart from taking pictures, eating, sleeping and reading books. It's nice just for a change but I would go crazy after a week. I went to the seaside as well but it was too cold to swim though. Right now I'm listening to the Cure's the last day of summer and it feels quite sad, bye.

When summer's gone, where will we be?

Laughter, champagne, polaroids, kisses, empty museums, old books, photography and broken iphone. Reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, white nights, pale skies, train rides. Bells around Saint Petersbourg when I saw you. Swiss boys. Painted lips, dirty knees. I see you on the evenings sitting on your throne. The Strokes, oh, the Strokes. Van Gogh's letters. Mac DeMarco. Beards and tattoos. Arguing with my mother on the phone. Dancing. Longboarding. "I'm sorry, baby". Songs on repeat. Sore feet. "You take too many photos". Evening naps. Strange dreams. Red wine, oh, red wine. Art gallery. Bye summer. I liked you.

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There might be buildings and pretty things to see like that

This is the place that I wanted to visit for quite a long time. It's an old and majestic palace and it looks really impressive with all this gold on the ceilings and French windows and parquet-flooring.. I can imagine how the emperors walked through these parks and watched the fountains and gave balls and had a lot of guests in their beautiful dresses. And everyone danced waltz.

Wake up, girl, we're almost home

My favourite city once again

on the right

It feels so good in the bay

Today in the morning I found a note in my phone which I wrote while taking a train ride to my favourite city. It's so happy. "Yesterday during our wild debauch in a bar somebody suggested to take a spontaneous trip to V. Of course, it was hard to open my eyes today at 6 a.m and while I was gloomily washing my face and dressing up I was trying to find any reasons for me to do all of those instead of sleeping. I didn't have time for breakfast so I took a couple of sandwiches with me and left home.

In metro I couldn't help yawning and was falling into a doze every minute. On the station I saw a coffee machine and livened up a little bit. Bought tickets and hot chocolate, boarded the train, had a breakfast and life already stopped being so ugly. Took a nap and it turned nice and beautiful.

V. met us with great sunny weather and a wonderful view on the bay. We were walking around historical area of the city and exploring some ancient buildings when we met some cheerful guys who suggested to show us the city. We said yes with no hesitating. They told us they were born here but live in Finland for already 12 years. The guys bought us some gin and tonic, showed us a tower and a park.

It was so nice for the first time in three weeks not to hear the noise of the city but enjoy virgin green forest and smell pines all around you. We said goodbye to the guys, had a snack at the station and went home almost losing our train :)

In the evening I plan to take a shower, eat some ice-cream and go to the couchsurfing meeting". Can't believe how happy I sound here.

Freaking out the neighbourhood

Who wants a new pile of photos? Nobody? Here they are anyway 

It was one of those nice places on my street, they had good cider and a photo booth, also they played some great music albums like AM and Mac DeMarco live performances, actually I could spend hours there.