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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 Alexautourdumonde
July 10th 2007

Behind the old Iron Curtain - Part V - Tall...inn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Tallinn

Dix-huit heures en autobus c’est long, longtemps. Surtout quand le trajet commence avec la projection en rafale de 2-3 comédies estoniennes à la place d’un super film américain totalement superficiel tel Rambo ou Terminator 2. Je vous confirme, je n’ai rien compris du film, mais c’est certainement dans le top des plus mauvaises productions de l’histoire. Entre deux scènes poches, l’autobus freine brusquement m’indiquant que quelque chose ne vas pas. Le chauffeur de l’autobus agrippe un homme équipé d’une moustache de champion, définitiv [View Full Entry]

By Overlanders
July 9th 2007

Wigs and Weirdos Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

The Baltic, looking towards Tallinn

What do crazy wigs, blokes dressed up in cow suits, bungy jumping, traditional dancing, choral singing, hark rock, sausages and techno music have in common? Beer. Yes in Estonia all of these sometime complimentary, sometimes contradictory forces were brought together under the uniting and liberating force of beer, resulting in the Tallinn beer festival. One could say that it was a case of expert organisational skills that we timed our visit to Tallinn with the beer festival, but rather it was by sheer luck that we discovered that there was a festival on and that we would be there at the [View Full Entry]

By L and J in Portugal
July 6th 2007

Tallinn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

City gates

When Lindsay and I were planning our trip this summer, we were always keeping an eye out for cheap budget flights. One great deal that we found was a flight on Easyjet from Berlin to Tallinn, Estonia. We also found a flight from Helsinki (a short ferry ride across the Baltic Sea from Tallinn) back to Cologne, Germany. It turns out the cost of the two budget flights plus the ferry was comparable to the cost of train tickets from Berlin to Cologne. So, we thought why not, and so we went. Tallinn was a different city than we have [View Full Entry]

By anton_chernenko
June 29th 2007

Tallin shore Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Tallinn houses

Retrieving 30 min in Tallinn harbor........ Some photos which you can make from ferry Since next year Estonia (as well as some other country) will be included in Schengen area, that means that I can visit it normal way, to see Bronze Soldier and other historical places.. Let's see..... [View Full Entry]

By AirMail
June 19th 2007

Tallinn in Twenty Photos Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

RECOVERED

Tallinn in Twenty Photos Europe » Estonia » Tallinn By AirMail June 19th 2007 Josh & AliciaPhotos from our day trip to Tallinn's Old City. We had never previously planned to come here, until we saw the ferry trip advertised in a Finnish tourist brochure. In many ways this was the Europe we had been searching for over the last 3 months. The place [View Full Entry]

By Rodyssey
June 16th 2007

The Baltics Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Vilnius

Spent this week on a whistlestop tour of the Baltic states, 2 days each in Vilnius (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia) and Tallinn (Estonia) with long bus journeys between them. Very interesting places - surprised by the diversity between the three capitals. Vilnius isn't very touristy (not a very picturesque town), Riga has a very cool Old Town filled with old churches and Art Nouveau buildings and Tallinn looks superb - full of medieval towers, cobbled streets etc. Nice cool sea breeze here too. There's a lot of renovation going on in all three and frankly a lot more needed, but I [View Full Entry]

By Jean Genie
June 3rd 2007

Tallinn - Estonia, 29-31 May 2007. Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Old Town Gates

Upon discovering that Tallinn, which hosts one of the best preserved "Old Town" sectors in northern Europe, was only a five hour bus ride from Rīga, I decided to pay Estonia's capital city a visit... Tuesday 29 May Upon arrival in Tallinn I was thrilled to find that its Old Town did indeed lived up to its reputation... I got off the bus and walked through the tower gates into Old Town to find my hostel. It wasn't that easy... true to its medieval layout, the centre has a numerous amount of narrow cobbled streets leading every which-way, complete with [View Full Entry]

By LAFROG
June 3rd 2007

Tallinn, Estonia Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Today our tour started in the medieval town of Tallinn. We walk up tooompea hill to the palace square where we viewed Toompa castle, now the Estonian Parliament. We were able to peek into a lovely Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky cathedral. Since this was sunday, no pictures were allowed but the clergy were all dressed in their religious robes, very ornate. We continued over the cobble stone streets for an overview of the lower city. The city is on a hill with city walls protecting the lower city and larger walls protecting the upper city. There is a Catholic St [View Full Entry]

By Jean Genie
June 3rd 2007

Word of Wisdom #3 Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

The Müürivahe Molester

Beware the MÃ¼Ã¼rivahe Molester In keeping with my strange ability to attract unconventional situations, Tallinn served me up a beauty of an incident. It was my last day there and I was doing one last wander around Old Town just before midday. Walking down MÃ¼Ã¼rivahe (yet another quiet cobbled street), an innocent, blond-haired blue-eyed adolescent was coming in the opposite direction. He gave me a shy little smile and in return, as Kiwis generally do, I smiled back. Naturally, the nordic youth took this to mean; "please, feel free to fondle me" and proceeded to give my left mammary [View Full Entry]

By Gandhi
May 30th 2007

Tallinn Viking Cruise Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

RECOVERED

I was pretty stressed out the morning of the 30th. I had my final exam for one of the harder Engineering units i'd been doing and the lecturer conviently decided to change the course requirements to create a final oral exam. I was soon to find, however, that the stress was undeserved - the lecturer simply held an extended conversation with me about me thoughts and learning from the course (a course might i add in which I attended 10% of lectures due to unforseen circumstances - like Amsterdam). Anyways, relieved to claim some unit points and have the rare [View Full Entry]

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