Turku; Thursday, 22 June, 2017

The weather had been getting increasingly oppressive and overnight it was almost impossible to sleep. As I was due to be working from home during the day it meant when I eventually gave up trying to get any sleep at 4:30 I was able to get up, have a shower and start work a little after 5.

I was therefore able to finish quite early in the afternoon, and so could head down to the airport outside of the evening rush, even so the train was still pretty full and with no working air conditioning an unpleasant experience.

A smooth journey through the airport, but – as appears to be standard with Norwegian – a delay to the flight that eventually ticked up to 45 minutes late by the time we finally pushed back and headed for the runway.

It was an uneventful flight and we managed to make up a little time so it was only just gone midnight when we finally landed in Helsinki. Thankfully, once through customs, it was only a two-minute walk and down one escalator to get to my hotel for the night, and after giving the room about 20 minutes of icy blast from the air con I was able to turn in.