About full-booked ferrys and bad banks ...

Hello again. :)

I´m still in Germany and next week it´s going back to Finland. I´m really really excited and also happy to leave this moving stress behind.
I knew all the time that moving is stressful, especially moving from one to another country BUT with so many problems I haven´t thought I would have to manage.

At first my mum and me went to a bank where my mum saved money for me for about 18 years. So there´s money on and of course I would need that money if I will buy a car, etc. So we went there and asked how much is it all together. Then they told us that we cannot get the money since we don´t have the original paper. We just had a copy of that paper and our passports which should be enough in my opinion.
In that original paper is just written that my mum saved for me money and our birthdates, birthplaces and all that personal details you always have to fill out. So we thought it´s enough to bring our passports with us and the copy of the original paper since this was the only thing we have found at home. But they said again and again "Without the original paper it´s not possible to get the money."
And I asked myself what happens then if someone´s house or flat was burning and the paper was in there? Or if you just lost it while moving? Then they answered that we have to wait 6 months to get the money because they will make an official writing public that this original paper is lost and we would have to wait 6 months if somebody comes there with informations or the original paper. But hello? Just my mum and me have a right for that money and the original paper, so in my opinion anyone could come with the original paper but that person has no right for the money. But anyway after long discussions and phonecalls and speaking with many people we have gotten a meeting date on Friday in that bank and on phone they said we would just have to wait for 2 months... Thanks bank! Better than 6 months but anyway shitty.

The other thing is that we couldn´t book a ferry earlier since I had to wait how it´s going with my driving-licence. So as I got the informations when I have the practical test (I have passed today. ;) we wanted to book a ferry. Unfortunately all ferrys until the 5th of August are full-booked. No matter from which destination we tried to book. And my mum needs to be back in Germany on the 12th of August and my school starts in Finland on the 9th of August, so to start going by ferry on the 5th of August would be too late. So we decided to drive by car trough Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estland. From Tallinn we will take the ferry to Helsinki. :)

 We will stay one night in Warschau, Poland, which is on that following photo I borrowed from google. :)

After that we will drive about 900 km to Riga, which is in Latvia and showed in the next coming photo, which I also borrowed from google, since I have never been there. ;) But I will try to take lots of photos of all cities we are going and I hope we have at least time for an hour or more to walk through the cities there. To Warschau we have by the way to drive about 1000 km. :-/ So a very looong drive! Bääh! But there´s no other possibility.

Here´s the borrowed photo from Riga. It looks really nice, like in a fairytale and I´m looking forward to go there! As I wrote already ... Hopefully we will have a bit time for looking around and taking pictures.


But still there is a lot to manage and to pack before the loooooong trip.