Woah!!!!! Seriously strong stuff. I would say 'cool!' but, well, lame? The ending too - evil person! and I won't get to see what happens until tomorrow so it is all your fault when I go dreaming of ice castles full of bones. Shivers!

Re. Helsinki hotels: When I was there in winter the hotel rooms were always just a shade too chilly for my thin Irish blood but the bathrooms, Man!, what a wonder is underfloor heating! If Spike couldn't have got the use of the sauna (it's Finland - even the youth hostels have saunas) he could have stretched himself out flat on the lovely, toasty tiled floor. Hell my feet still dream about that floor!