St. Petersburg!

Greetings from Saint Petersburg! We took a boat from Helsinki and arrived today, the city is grey and rainy, but still very pretty. The boat was an old one, all about nineties elegance with tacky gold railings and garish carpets. Also the most interesting performers, like a guy playing 80's hits with an electric guitar all alone on the stage.

Here's some pics before I head out to see some museums!

The kitties had enjoyed their vacation also, they had been well looked after :)

Although Möttönen was a bit needy, as always.

Our cabin window, looking really fresh.

St. Petersburg centre. I'm planning on seeing the Kunstkamera museum today!

WGT Monday

Last day of the festival! Today, on Tuesday we're going home, taking the train to Berlin, then flying to Stockholm and from there to Tampere. I'm tired but happy, last five days have been so wonderful! Here's some pictures from yesterday, I'll write more after I've gotten a good night's sleep in my own bed at home.

Red light

A pretty pond in the middle of the city.

I wrote this post on Tuesday, but the hotel internet connection was cut just as I was sending it. So here it is, a bit late but better late than never :)

Finally Home!

We arrived today just after midnight, what an awesome holiday! It was nice to sleep in my own bed again, with all the kitties.

Here are the last pictures I took abroad!

Last day in Leipzig, taken at the hotel. I forgot to take a pic of the bed, it was huge!
Probably as wide as our whole bedroom at home ;P

I always forgot to ask friends to take pictures of me and my other half together, but here's one :)

Red parasols make sunlight so pretty!

The last delicious Apfelschorle. I'll have
to mix them myself at home.

Flying somewhere over Denmark (I think).

My other half's chipped nail polish, shows how a five-day-festival wears you down ;P

I did a lot of shopping, but I think I won't have time to do another post before I come back from St. Petersburg. We are leaving on Friday and return on the fifth. And tomorrow I'll get my tattoo finished, don't know how many hours this session will be, last one was four!

I think I'll try and do one post more about WGT later on, to sum it all up and post some pictures I have stashed away :)

WGT Sunday

We woke up late and decided to go out and eat right away. Had delicious mushroom pasta and milkshakes and headed off to the Egyptian Museum afterwards. It was open on one day for free to WGT visitors. Stayed there until closing time (I love Egypt and could spend ages in almost any museum) and then went off to listen to The House of Usher. They didn't play that well, but it was still nice. I continued to Volkspalast for Luftwaffe and Of The Wand And The Moon, the venue was gorgeous! A round hall with a high dome, excellent acoustics and I loved the DDR look of the place, all concrete.

Strawberry-vanilla and chocolate-banana milkshakes!

Met with my other half at Moritzbastei (see a pattern here? ;)) and we continued the evening in the cellars where a friend of ours was DJ'ing. I guess I'm a bit boring because I'm thrilled to hear Finnish goth classics even when partying in Germany ;P Met friends, listened to lots of good music and drank excellent cola-bier, what more can a lady ask for?

Here's some pictures from the day. There's a ban on cameras at the concert venues (on big cameras, but apparently my five-year-old snapshot camera is too big) so I have pictures from daytime only.

Bought a nice shredded shirt to wear over my dress! Also the flower hair clips are new.

My other half was wearing a tie clip I got for him last year.

Me outside Moritzbastei

And a pic of my evening look! Sweaty pvc is an essential part of any goth festival ;P

Satur Day & Night WGT

Saturday was awesome, ate Indian food, did some shopping and listened to excellent bands! I bought a new corset and wore it in the evening, it was very comfy and looked good. And Urban Decay Primer Potion proved its worth again by keeping my eyeshadow creaseless for over twelve hours, including a very sweaty Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio gig.

Now for some pictures!

My other half at the Indian restaurant.

Me at the same place. Many old ladies wanted to take pictures of us ;P

My nails, I'm wearing a sticker on the ring finger. Also some
delicious pils in the pic ;)

Took a break from the shopping and had milkshakes,
mine was kiwi-banana and his was strawberry.

I didn't get any pictures of my evening look, because I only had half an hour to get ready and then rushed to see the bands. Saw Ordo Equituum Solis, Ordo Rosarius Equilbrio and Hekate. ORE was brilliant, as was Hekate! Hekate started an hour or so late and played an extra half hour, so I was a bit tired afterwards and only stopped to eat and find my other half at Moritzbastei and headed off to the hotel to get some sleep. Tonight I'm planning on actually partying at Moritzbastei ;D

Felsenkeller

Last night we went to see Ahráyeph, Rhombus, Press Gang Metropol, The Eden House and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. There were naturally other bands playing also, but we chose to stay in one location because four of the five bands were interesting and the last one turned out to be nice also. So, it was Felsenkeller for the whole night, and off to Moritzbastei for a midnight snack afterwards. Their spinach lasagna is to die for, we had that for lunch, but the chili con carne I tried last night was also delicious! Saw lots of friends too, amazing how Finnish people manage find each other in a huge festival area ;P

The hotel lobby had a cute chair! My outfit is from yesterday.

My other half was wearing his cool sunglasses.

This is from yesterday, I had my cheap but purple H&M sunglasses ;)

And my look for today, fuzzy curls and Livor Mortis eyeshadow that makes my
eyes look super pale!

Now I'm off to do some shopping in the city centre (already went to Claire's and DM yesterday, but I want more of the lovely nails stickers I found!) and then head out to Agra to do some more shopping ;) Can't wait for the Agra marketplace, it's a goth heaven!

Moritzbastei and Sixtina Absintherie

Had a taste of a friend's milkshake on Moritzbastei, it was delicious!

Sixtina Absintherie had a cool old hearse parked in front the place.