Estonian storks

A down day.

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July 24th 2013
We should have known better when we saw that the restaurant had only one other customer! Having spent a cold, wet evening in Cesis, and an equally cold and drizzly morning walking round a lovely park and the old and new Cesis castles (the new one now being a museum), we drove on to Estonia, passing the deserted Latvia/Estonia border control buildings with no one to care who we were or where we wer ... read more

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After centuries of Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian rule, Estonia attained independence in 1918. Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940, it regained its freedom in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since the last Russian troops le... ... read more