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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.

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By fiona adam
July 31st 2008

Days 3+4 Europe » Estonia » Saaremaa » Kuressaare

Kuressaare, Saaremaa Island We left Tallinn somewhat earlier than we would have liked, and headed to the excitingly named Autobussijam to catch our bus to the island of Saaremaa. The 4 hour jaunt involved a short ferry crossing, which was vastly more pleasant and relaxing than any dover to calais trip has ever been. A sleepy drive past tumbledown farm shacks and through lush green forests brought us to the islands capital, Kuressaare...or at least, we thought so...possibly the quietest bus station ever... Not entirely convinced we were heading in the right direction, we eventual [View Full Entry]

By No2ndhome
July 29th 2008

Tallinn's Town Square Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Tallinn's Town Square
Birds Eye View of 700yo Town Square

My wife and I did not just visit Estonia, we rented an apartment and stayed for three months. Part of our lifestyle plan to is stay each summer away from our home in Naples, Florida and take up residence elsewhere. We call it THE WORLD IS OUR SECOND HOME. Estonia was wonderful and I hope to report more in the weeks and months ahead. For the impatient you can visit my website www.marshallpublications.com The day after we arrived, there was a day long renaissance festival inthe old Town Square. A wonderful meeting place, the heart of Tallinn and to some degree [View Full Entry]

By fiona adam
July 29th 2008

Day Two Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Ghostwriter Firstly in response to James´ comment we have not taken a ghostwriter with us on holiday but as a joint blog it would be rather annoying to have to do otherwise... perhaps I (fiona) shall take up the royal we in future... Day Two The day started late as we slept in still rather knackered from the Stansted epic. Met up with Andres, a former Jasmine di Milo colleague, and went for lunch at the rather posh looking "Vertigo" restaurant which was on the top floor of a rather tall building as the name may suggest. It was all sleek [View Full Entry]

By fiona adam
July 28th 2008

Day One: London to Tallinn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Day One The trip started ridiculously early due to having to spend an exciting night at Stansted airport... Dramas also occurred early with a horrendous nosebleed on the coach to the airport for Fiona... Tissues were salvaged from kind foreigners. Finally we boarded the plane...nice to see that for once, it wasn't overpopulated with stag-bound revellers. Fortunately the obligatory screaming baby was at the other end of the cabin. The scenery from the window was predictably glorious when we eventually woke up after grabbing a couple of hours sleep open mouthed. Found the Eupho [View Full Entry]

By louandalex
July 24th 2008

Tallinn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Tallinn Skyline

Another blue skies day with plenty of sunshine in the Baltics. We roamed around the medieval city of Tallinn, a UNESCO world heritage site. At times it felt as though we were walking around a large open air museum. The cobbled streets, and pastel coloured town houses with a number of churches dotted around. Large wooden doors ornately decorated and decorated shutters are commonplace. Our first stop was The Church of the Virgin Mary built in 1219 by the Danes. This was our favourite church so far plain simple and white, with a colour coordinated interior - the organ, pulpit and [View Full Entry]

By pete tree
July 21st 2008

Estonia the land of perpertual sunlight!! Europe » Estonia

Old town building from the church

After bobsledding our way through the other Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia we headed to the northern most state of Estonia. We arrived in the capital and you guessed it.... It was raining not just rain though it was pouring and we were starting to wonder if we should head back to Riga when the rain cleared and we were able to get out and about. Like most of the other cities in this part of the world Tallinn had an old town and this was our first stop. The old town of Tallinn is smaller than those of Riga [View Full Entry]

Estonian place of parliament with it nice garden.

By Antibody Man
July 20th 2008

Exploring Estonia Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Parnu

From Riga, we drove through the Gauja National Park then back to the Baltic coast towards Estonia. We stopped for lunch in Parnu, a nice place by the sea with lots of wooden houses. The beach was packed with people enjoying the warm weather! From Parnu, we went to Tallinn. I liked the way much of the old town is on a hill (we hadn't seen much in the way of hills for a long time!) so you can look down on the rest of the city and see the port. We wandered around the old town, and then walked to [View Full Entry]

The view over Tallinn from the city walls

By kifandpeter
July 13th 2008

Tha Baltic Shuffle Part 2 Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Hi, On the night of the 12th, we took the ferry from Stockholm to Tallinn. This ferry was bigger and nicer than our previous one. We were on deck 8 so well above the waterline and the car-deck this time. It was more like a floating hotel than a ferry and was quite enjoyable. There are many things to do on the boat including a show-lounge, karaoke and a club. The most entertaining part of the trip was watching two identical twin Polish brothers, with large mustaches of course, singing karaoke...twice!!! We arrived in Tallinn around 10am, and checked into the [View Full Entry]

By KathrynAndNigel
July 6th 2008

Tallin Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Hi all. Sorry we haven't blogged for ages - there is virtually no internet in the northern reaches of Norway or Finland. We head into Russia tonight, so fingers crossed we have enough money to pay the guards off... apparently it's pretty much gauranteed that we'll have to. I don't have any more time to write more sorry. Must dash. See you all again in a week or so. Nigel [View Full Entry]

By Mmirag
July 2nd 2008

Tallinn-Day 3 Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

So not much new to report. Went out for a bit to grab a couple beers last night, but mostly just hung out and talked at the hostel. Roger got in about 1:30am and we were up today at 10 to see the city (again for me). Really small Old Town, but just a nice place to walk around. Going to skip the beer festival I think since it is out of the city and seems to be more of an Estonian music festival, so we will probably do a "tour" of the pubs and maybe a late night club. We'll [View Full Entry]

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