Hi BB
If you're going to Helsinki & Tallinn Estonia, you'll not be far from the Aland Islands. The Alands may or may not be of interest to you, it was one of the last home ports to the worlds last & largest commercial sailing fleets. It was run be Gustaf Erickson & he owned & ran one the sailing fleet from the 20's thru the 40's. Anyway just in case you got the notion.
Glad to hear you're still running full steam ahead.
We'll sing a song for you at the festival.

BB, why find a cheap flight home, take a look around the docks, you may find a slow boat back home instead. Really, hitch hiking on the 7 seas is a very popular (if unknown) means of travel. It's how I got home from Hawaii & how many of my friends traveled thru the South Pacific. Sometimes there's a fee & sometimes it's just the want of a cook or an additional crew mwmber. I got picked up in part because a skipper had a few musicians/singers onboard & figured that one more voice & one more hand would make the voyage all the more enjoyable. He even set aside a daily cocktail hour (or 3) just so the moral would stay high when it came to boring times, like 2 weeks caught in the doldrums with not a breath of wind. Try it you may like it. And you won't need any money out there on the blue. Just imagine in every port a bunch of guys all asking "you from around here sailor".

Take good care
Barry

Barry