The most northerly of the chilly Baltics, member of Nato since April 2004 and the European Union since May 2004 Estonia is making great strides with rediscovering their culture and revelling in their newly acquired relative wealth.
Estonian society is however tainted with the aftermath of Soviet occupation with ethnic tension and the ex Soviet style womens liberation making Estonias women reluctant to pursue more rights.
Being sparsly populated, Estonia has wide expanses of forest and lakes.
Visit Estonia and stay warm in one of medieval Tallinns candlelit cellars with the delicious Estonian speciality hot chocolate and truffles or take an Estonian style weekend get away to the Islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa on any day of the week.
June 15th 2009Europe » Estonia » Tallinn
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you ... 10 photos[full story]
June 22nd 2009Europe » Estonia » Tallinn St Petersburg onwards
OK guys - here's the latest update. I believe I left you having got the Red Arrow to St Petersburg. Before I head into the next section, let me just give you a quick overvie ... 4 photos[full story]
June 13th 2009Europe » Estonia I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson
June 13, 2009, Saturday, Laagna Campground, Narva , Estonia, to the ... 10 photos[full story]
June 20th 2009Europe » Estonia Excerpted from my book: OUR SUMMER IN ESTONIA, AMAZON.COM
Padaste Manor put us in a playful mood. There were not many guests and one could easily imagine the place was ours. We frolicked through ou ... 3 photos[full story]
May 7th 2009Europe » Estonia » Tallinn May 5, 2009
Ferry: Viking Line, Helsinki - Tallinn
Hotel: Old House Hostel, Tallinn, Estonia, $5.44
Today I was planning on heading over to Tallinn in Estonia via ferry. After breakfast I caught t ... 4 photos[full story]
June 10th 2009Europe » Estonia » Tartu And here it comes, the first weekend out of the city. Well, i went out with AIESEC for a transition party, EB to EB. The location was 45KM out of the city in an area with "hills" and all that the na ... 26 photos[full story]
June 8th 2009Europe » Estonia » Tallinn Hallo liebe Freunde
Ich bin's mal wieder...ob ihr wohl noch angemeldet seid bei meinem Blog?? :-)
Ich war mit Chrigi eine Woche im Baltikum unterwegs...und zeige euch gerne unsere Route und eini ... 40 photos[full story]
May 4th 2009Europe » Estonia » Tallinn
Arriving in Tallin, Estonia around 2pm we had about a 15 minute walk to the hotel, which is a sports hotel and has full gym, pool etc. Our orientation walk around Tallin was really informative. We ... 26 photos[full story]
May 23rd 2009Europe » Estonia » Tartu Some of you already know, some other don't but at this point i started a new chapter in my life, Tartu Estonia. I will be here for one year working for a national company in a field that is kind of ne ... 24 photos[full story]
May 23rd 2009Europe » Estonia » Saaremaa Mexican food night was an adventure. It was held in a dorm that is on the school grounds so everyone that came had an easy place to get to. Then my friend Pille-Riin and I started with making rice kri ... 11 photos[full story]