Visafied!

I shall now officially stand up and salute the swift employees of the Royal Thai Embassy in Helsinki. I left the application last Thursday and already on Friday it was processed, granted and shipped to me. So I got the visa delivered to my home address in 2 working days. One for the processing and one for delivery. Wow. I am impressed.

Also I would recommend Kilroy Travels for getting "student priced" plane tickets for yourself. Finnair for example grants the youth discount for people under 26 but if you are a student, you get some extra time to fly moderately cheaply. You just need an ISIC student card and it can be purchased with the plane tickets straight from their website. It also took just two days to arrive so they are really doing their jobs well in there as well.

Let's just wait and see how the parcel from UK arrives. I hope my bad luck with waiting ended with the invitation letter, but still I am keeping my fingers crossed and not just trusting blindly for everything to work out. Even though it always does one way or another, my trust in the british postal service has been dented by some nice experiences from friends living in London. But we'll see.