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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 Tamara
September 15th 2005

Tripping to Tallinn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

HI Today I took the 1.5 hour fast boat to Tallinn.. What a city.. I LOVED it.. it was so amazing.. The weather had been bad and the boats did not go yesterday and wouldn't go today till noon. They couldn't guarantee that I could make it back to Helsinki but I took the chance and went anyways.. and I am SO glad I did.. I now wish I had come sooner and went to Lithuania and Latvia as well.. but what can you do.. The old city is like nothing I have seen so far.. my Favorite place to date. [View Full Entry]

By Garret
August 20th 2005

Old town Estonia Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Hi all, sorry it has been so long, but I have been pretty busy. The ferry over to Tallinn was very nice with a cafe and store on board. I thought it would travel a little faster being a hydrofoil, but we went a constant 38 MPH, still not bad at 1 hour 30 min for the crossing from Helsinki. Tallinn is a huge port for tourists and the streets of the old town was sort of like being in Disneyland. Filled with toursits with their cameras out taking pictures and buying trinkets, but the town has been put back into [View Full Entry]

By Ptraci
August 12th 2005

Parnu Europe » Estonia » Parnu

Rides: 2 cars and a truck Weather: after more days of mostly rain, we finally saw some sun today! And my shoes are dry for the first time in days! Finally properly on the road. We had been standing 20m from the last bus stop along the road to Parnu for approximately 30 seconds when our first ride picked us up. And took us about 20km down the road. To an inconvenient spot. A short walk through a long downpour later, and we got another ride for another 20km or so. Then we waited an hour before a polish truck driver [View Full Entry]

By Ptraci
August 11th 2005

Tallinn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Weather: raining, no wait, sunny! no... raining, no, it's sunny! I think they call this unsettled? I emailed this to a friend, then realised it would make a good entry, so thanks to the miracle of cut&paste, here is a summary of my first 3 days on the road: We're in Tallinn now - I arrived in Helsinki on monday evening after 25 hours travelling (it usually takes that long to cross the world, but to cross europe, it seemed a little much), spent 24 hours there, and have spent the last 2 nights in Tallinn. We're still in Tallinn, but [View Full Entry]

By Antonia
July 28th 2005

Wow! Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Off the main path

I never thought I'd go to Tallinn but my new Canadian friends said there were a lot of "crappy" buildings! Yes, that is a good thing in my book. The ferry ride was only two hours, and I took my first picture five minutes after I walked off it! A few minutes later I put the camera away and just walked around. It was beautiful. The Old City mainly. For lunch I had the best tomato soup ever and something with potatoes and cheese. Coffee and rum cake a bit later at an ultra cool coffee shop/bowling place/I don't know. If [View Full Entry]

By D G
July 27th 2005

Tallinn Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

My Birthday Dinner.. .

We arrived in Tallinn at 5.40am morning of the 25th after a nightmarish overnight bus journey from St. Petersburg. It wouldn't have been so bad except for the border crossing, one for exiting Russia and one for entering Estonia. You think leaving a country would be easy crossing the border out of Russia was quite a big ordeal. 2am in the morning we all have to get off the bus, take our rucksacks,bags etc and got through immigration which took ages and then through customs which took another hour or so. After boarding the bus again finally we travelled through no [View Full Entry]

By saraballon
July 27th 2005

And now, for the rest of Estonia... (Saaremaa, Otepaa, and Tartu) Europe » Estonia » Otepaa

In Saaremaa

No stories, just pictures! [View Full Entry]

By saraballon
July 24th 2005

To the Baltics and beyond... Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Me & Herring

Well, I have spent some time over the past few days compiling my next blog, and I went to publish it tonight and POOF! it disappeared. I am not sure what happened, but all of my observations about camp and Estonian life have been erased. I am not going to try to recreate it because it is late and I am tired. And b/c you probably just look at the pictures anyway. But, I will try to hit some highlights and let you know what's up. Today was the last day of camp. A lot of kids have already left, but [View Full Entry]

By WildcatMike
July 22nd 2005

a bit of a surprise... Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

hi guys, made it to tallinn and was a little surprised by how expensive everything is here. the room that i am staying in costs more than my room in edinburgh and its not nearly as nice. Truth be told i haven't done too much sightseeing here in Tallinn. I have just walked around the old town center which is really nice and tried not to eat because i haven't found a grocery store to buy food at. Last night i was walking down the street with my redsox hat on and a guy stopped me and asked me if i [View Full Entry]

By saraballon
July 17th 2005

500 steps to the top of St. Olaf's! (Plus, Tex-Mex in Tallinn) Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Me & My Homeroom

Greetings again from Turisalu, Estonia. I am just going into the third week of camp (one left to go!), and things are, well, pretty much the same. We started camp with about 85 kids and 50 of them left last Thursday. 25 new ones came in their place, so now there are about 60 kids here. It feels empty without all of the old kids around. I have to say, even in just the 2 weeks I knew the students and they knew each other, everyone got pretty close. You know camp -- a day is like a week. The relationships [View Full Entry]

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