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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 mr mink
August 25th 2009

does it fix money headaches? Europe » Estonia » Parnu

HK magic potions
seem to fix everything....

do they (att. pic - bought in Hong Kong) white flower etc embrocations etc fix money headaches too? (select few know about this - for the rest all will be revealed) - they claim to fix travel headaches (maybe not this one!), coughs, fever etc. - no claims about terminal cancer tho I can post - becos I can [View Full Entry]

By mr mink
August 24th 2009

photos - they are working now Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Alexander Nevsky cathedral - Tallinn
the main Orthodox church on Toompea - highest point in Tallinn

hopefully this time things will get rolling - they are banked up here! - and after complaining a bit to the webmaster and them saying it might be up the upload speed - hey, this is E-stonia maaan - and these are specially created with another camera small 100kb or so files, not 3 mb monsters - at last the plug/blockage appears to have been pulled - enjoy - this is the end of Tallinn - can we move on people - that was like days ago! [View Full Entry]

By mr mink
August 24th 2009

Kuressaare Bishop's palace and around Europe » Estonia » Saaremaa » Kuressaare

Kuressaare Castle 1-front
reasonable view of the portculliss here

so this was Kuressaare on the full second day - with sunshine, after day of arrival when I ended up rreading my book and then spending the rest of the evening in the Vinoteek (see separate bibulous account) - Barbara said I thought was A. A. Milne - had to Wikipedia that one, as I thought he was the bloke who wrote Winnie the Pooh and other stories (or maybe he did that AND wrote about food for the Sunday Times!). Anyway finally down to the Kuressaare Bishop's Palace [marked on the map attached generally as Vallekraav - it does not [View Full Entry]

By Jonaitis
August 24th 2009

Tallinn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Ah, our first full day in Tallinn! The beginning of this was marked by the best thing we’d seen in a while -- the inside of our eyelids. We slept like champs. We slept like we hadn’t seen a bed in over 36 hours which, as we calculated, was approximately true. After waking up and having a leisurely breakfast -- a poor man’s version of what the Danes call smørrebrød (dense bread, Edam, and some sliced ham was what we could procure at the store), yogurt, and coffee -- we left the apartment at the crack of 11 AM to make [View Full Entry]

By mr mink
August 23rd 2009

Kuressaare update Europe » Estonia » Saaremaa » Kuressaare

I am now on Saaremaa island the largest in Estonia - in a place called Kuressaare, which is the biggest town here - but we are only talking about 11,000 people so WAY smaller than anywhere else I have been. It was quite a surprise to come somewhere so small. However I was ale to use my initiative and found a pretty reasonable hotel not mentioned in the LP (Lonely Planet) the Arabella which was only 500Eek (thats Estonian krons - about 9 to Aussie dollar - so that was pretty reasonable. The bus ride to Kuressaare [View Full Entry]

By Jonaitis
August 23rd 2009

Arrival in Tallinn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Tallinn Airport
Airports in Northern Europe are weirdly pretty.

After returning to Arlanda airport in Stockholm, we breezed our way back through security (have I mentioned how much less painful it is to travel through Europe?) at the international terminal and perused the duty-free store, picking up [url=http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/index.php/url_indprod/xlc_2185/Mentos%20Lakrits%20%281%20roll%29.html]tasty candy morsels. Ambling toward our gate for the ARN --> TLL flight, we started to experience a sense of deja-vu. We go [View Full Entry]

By mr mink
August 22nd 2009

Tallinn piccies (or lack thereof) Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

photos seem difficult to add sometimes - so map only here - central Tallinn - the green area to left is labelled Toom park - in Estonian its Toompea - where all the important things like the Parliament and a couple of very interesting churches are - Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (still trying to upload pix of those) and that of St Mary - which is completely different - lovely organ which was playing when I visited - and very involved and elaborate coats of arms all around the walls [View Full Entry]

By mr mink
August 21st 2009

Tallinn piccy update Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Helsinki church
I think it is called Kallion Kirkko (last being church - no surprise there)

OK folks - in Tallinn and this day 3 and I leave tomorrow - to go somewhere - better have a read and work out where that is going to be I expect! as I have been so slack in getting myself organised to "do the sights" I had to book an extra nite (but its very nice here anyway of course - medieval city blah blah) in the St Olav's hotel (more on that later) on the net via Expedia-AU as it is way cheaper than paying direct here - I paid around 750 E Kroons - local rate is [View Full Entry]

By mr mink
August 21st 2009

Tallinn tie dye - and gourmet tucker Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

tie dye? no hippies really, just running out of titles for these things. This is my 4th night in Tallinn - and I have not seen a lot really as too slow to get going and so forth - knowing that it is not dark til 10pm really means that you can justify (sort of) not getting out of the hotel room til 3pm (like today) - but I was updating my photo blog Mum, gimme a break. well another photoblog update, now that I have solved the technical problem, and can take suitably small files separately to upload to keep [View Full Entry]

By No2ndhome
August 11th 2009

ESTONIA MUHU ISLAND-PART FOUR: SOVIET STYLE OCCUPATION Europe » Estonia » Saaremaa

AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SITE
Ready line for mobile launchers. Elysee is on watch.

(From my book OUR SUMMER IN ESTONIA, AMAZON.COM) It’s ironic that my second historical interest on Muhu spans those 800 years, with the battle of 1227, representing the beginning of Estonian subjugation, and a deserted Soviet air defense missile site representing the final shaking off of Estonia’s foreign occupation. Muhu was off limits to all but the island’s residents, for the almost fifty years of Soviet Union occupation following WWII. In addition to Soviet paranoia that someone might escape their loving embrace by sea to Sweden, Muhu was a restricted site becau [View Full Entry]

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