Trip to Russia

Hi everybody !

On Tuesday I will leave Finland for one week to go to Russia !!! That sounds like having lots of fun in that country where I have heard that a 1L vodka bottle costs only 3€ !!!!

I will tell you how that Russian stay was !!!

C ya !

So close...

Guillaume and I in the bus. I had bought make up !

Waiting for the game to start...drinking beer !

Pascaloooooooouuuuuuuuuuu

That was before the game starts !

That Irish pub was full of French!

Nicolas is focused on the game !

Like all the French people, I watched the rugby semi final France VS England last Saturday...Unfortunately, everybody knows how things end up... It's such a pity because we were better than these fucking English guys... Without Johny Wilkinson, that team does not exist.... But that's the game and we have been beaten...

See you at the next world cup English men...

I told you I would do it !

I promised you I would published an article about you girl !

That little piece of woman is just awesome !! I met her last summer at EASYDIS !! And I must admit I do not regret it !!! It's just the beginning of a great frienship story between her and I !

Above are some shots of her... Guys she is hot ! But she has got a boyfriend and everything's fine between them !!!

Tallinn

Hi guys!

I went to Tallinn for the week end. Let me tell you some things about that city!

So the first thing you have to know is that the Euro is not the official currency is that country. Actually it is the Estonian kroon. So I had to change euros against kroons... Just to give you an idea of the change rate : I payed 32.90€ and got 500 EEK. This is about 15 kroons for 1€.

Life here is pretty cheap. You eat very well for 5 or 6 €. I paid 20€ for 2 nights, you pay a 24 can beer box about 9€, a carton of Malboro costs 16€... So there are lots of things which are interesting to buy . Unfortunately, I tried to buy warm clothes for the winter, but concerning clothes, it was not that interesting...So I bought nothing!

Tallinn is a really nice city. Actually you must distinguish the city center and the rest of the city.

The city center is very very rich...and the suburb very very poor. I have never seen so many expensive cars in a city center before coming in Tallinn. I saw one S5 of Audi, one S8 of Audi, one A5 of Audi, 3 Mazzerati, 3 Cayenne Porsche, 2 Ferrari, 1 CarreraS4 Porsche... It was unbelievable to see that in Estonia...

The city center is very tradional. It is a former medieval city. Nevertheless we can see the influence of Russia and Sweden in the architecture especially for the churches.

Girls in Estonia are sweet... I love them !

My week end in Tallinn

On the way to the harbour

The group waiting for the tickets

All ready to board

The first checking point

Gambling is allowed on board

So much alcohol !

Buy 2 get 3 ! That's what I like !

Martin ( left ) & Rouven after " visiting " the shop ! 120 beer cans !

Rouven are you an alcoholic? !

The Italians bought 2 bottles : 1 vodka bottle and 1 honey liquor !

" Prost " Olga!

Guillaume ( left ) & Fabio ( right )

Tallinn here we are!

One more checking point

Our hostel room

Many people in the room!

Fabio, Rouven and Lisa

1 Estonian girl...They are all like this...No comment...

We were hungry. That's an Estonian burger...just disgusting...

Fabio was about vomiting!

That's where we partied

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I like the one on the right!

Stefi and Paolo

It's time to go to bed !

It's time to get up !

An OM fan even in Estonia !

We took a small train to visit the city !

In the restaurant, waiting for the meals we ordered

Stefi & Martin, you look so nice !

What are you doing David?

No photo of Bon-bon... Back to " The pub with no name" !

Bo-goss Guillaume !

On Sunday morning... Hard for Rouven!

Hard for me too !

On the ferrry back to Helsinki

On the train back to Tampere! German guys never stops drinking!

Hi guys!

I went to Tallinn (Estonia ) for the week end. I was with 14 other Erasmus students... 3 Frenchs, 5 Italians, 2 Czechs, 4 Germans and 1 Spanish. So it was an interantional group! That was great. I really enjoyed my time there with all these guys. Actually we partied all the week end long so I guess you can easily imagine how tired I am today ( Monday ).

This is the way this week end went on :

Friday : we left Tampere at 17h07 pm by train to get to helsinki. From Helsinki, we took the ferry to go to Tallinn, it took something like 3 hours. Once in Tallinn, a friend of us was not allowed to get in Estonia because he had lost his ID in France and the official paper which proves he lost his ID was not enough for the guy in charge of checking passports. So he had to sleep in the boat and made the trip back on Saturday morning...

We arrived at the hostel at about 02h00 am ( on saturday ! ) and we immediatly went partying... Of course everyone of us was completely drunk...We bought lots of alcohol on the boat, because it was tax free prices... :o

Saturday : We went to bed at 05h30 am and only 4 of us were brave enough to get up at 10h00 am to go sightseeing! Actually I did not drink alcohol during the whole day because i had the hangover...! I started drinking at about 06h00 pm and actually I did not stop until midnight. In the evening we went to a restaurant. Then we went back to the hostel to pre-party ( ! ) and then we moved to a club named " bon-bon "...It's the worst memory I have of that 3 day stay in Estonia... That club sucked so much... And it costed about 10€ to get in...So we decided to leave and to go back to the same club as we were the night before!

Sunday : I went to bed at 06h00 am and got up at 11h30am. Then we ate in a restaurant. We were at the harbour to take the ferry at 3h00 pm and we left at 05h00 pm. The guys bought lots of alcohol ( 5 of 'em bought 120 beer cans each... ) but I only bought 1.2 kg of toblerone chocolate!! Finally I arrived at my place at midnight ! I was completely exhausted ! and really hungry because I had not eaten since noon !

Above are few shots of this wend in Tallinn...

Image Processing: the Lena story

If you are familiar with image processing textbooks and articles, you must have seen the following picture:

For the curious: 'lena' or 'lenna' is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972. (Lenna is the spelling in Playboy, Lena is the Swedish spelling of the name ). Lena Soderberg (ne Sjooblom) was last reported living in her native Sweden, happily married with three kids and a job with the state liquor monopoly. In 1988, she was interviewed by some Swedish computer related publication, and she was pleasantly amused by what had happened to her picture. That was the first she knew of the use of that picture in the computer business.

Actually that photo is the most common used in Image Processing !

Here is the Lena's shot I like!