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Three things I've done that I doubt anyone on my friends list has:
1: Been paid to operate a 1950's-era teletype;
2: Served at an episcopal ordination (i.e., the ceremony in which a person is made a bishop); and
3: Successfully taken off and landed a full-motion aircraft simulator. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xiphia is a pilot... I didn't know that!
3a: Taken the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn and back.
As per standard, if you've done any of these, reply and I'll come up with a different one.
1: Been paid to operate a 1950's-era teletype;
2: Served at an episcopal ordination (i.e., the ceremony in which a person is made a bishop); and
xiphia is a pilot... I didn't know that!3a: Taken the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn and back.
As per standard, if you've done any of these, reply and I'll come up with a different one.
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Your 3a is awesome though. I need to spend more time on other continents.
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Visiting other continents is great; returning is excellent too!
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You get to keep 3a barely because when I made a very last minute trip to Scandinavia 5 years ago there was not enough time for me to get a visa to Estonia (the only country on my list that required one - it no longer does).
I did take the ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki and back though.
I plan to visit Tallinn someday.
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I didn't have you figured as the risk on that one, because I didn't know about your trip; I was worried about
Tallinn was a damn sight cheaper then than it is now, I understand... I spent a whole afternoon and evening eating good food and drinking booze for about $30 back then.
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It wasn't visa troubles it was the fact that it was a spur of the moment "oh look, $200 to fly to Denmark and back [1]" trip and it was literally too last minute for me to have time to get the visa. I was vaguely bitter at the time that Canadians required one when Americans and Brits didn't, but that has since changed I think.
[1] in $US. Which at the time meant $420 CDN once the taxes and surcharges kicked in. [2]
[2] And the trip was from NYC but I burned my airmiles getting to NYC[3]
[3] So all told I spent $600 on airfare to get from OTtawa to NYC, from NYC to Iceland for 3 days and then to Denmark, and then returned from Stockholm via iceland to NYC and came back to Canada the next day. It was fun. It was almost completely unplanned except for the part where I bought the airline ticket and bought a Scandinavian railpass in advance.
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