No, I am not flying Business Class all the time; it’s just that I had a total of 14 upgrades because of my Finnair Platinum, and I can only use them on the Finnair flights, not on the partner’s flights. And also, there are fewer and fewer direct flights from Chicago, so I am flying on the partnering airlines most of the time. For this super-short visit, I used six of these forteen upgrades to fly Business Class on the way there, and Economy Premium on the way back. One benefit of Platinum at ORD was that I could go to the LOT Business Lounge (otherwise, the Quatar Airlines Lounge is absolutely horrible).
As usual, I started with sleeping for ten hours straight to compensate not just for the flight (I could sleep fine, since it was all horizontal), but for the previous weeks of anxiety.
And then, there were three days of biking :). It was rather intense, because I still didn’t bike much in Chicago this spring – it was too cold. It might be not much warmer in Helsinki, but I could not say no to Boris, so I just did.
Tuesday was the warmest of all days, but it was also windy, and the longest ride right away – we biked to IKEA in Espoo 😂. it was almost two hours each way, and I barely made it. In compensation, we had IKEA lunch with tiramisu :).
It started raining on the way back, and both our iPhones were insisting that nothing is happening!
On Wednesday, it was supposed to be raining later, so we went biking earlier… and it started to rain. We biked for a bit, but the rain was increasing, and I asked to return home. Of course, the rain stopped just when we returned, so later in the day, I suggested we compensate and go again.
Boris wanted to show m a new bikes underground parking:
It looked amazing, but when we were ready to go back, Boris realized that the screw on his bike seat broke sometime during our ride (do not ask!), so we had to take Metro to Kamppi, and then cautiously bike home 🙂
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