It pains me that some of my friends and even my own mother struggled to find what to do in Helsinki in one day. If only they’d asked me; I’ve been to Finland’s capital thrice (four times now, as of December 2017) and it has a special place in my heart. As my itinerary below […]
Growing up with Estonian friends, I was fascinated with their folktales, their history, the countryside and their futuristic ways. They’ve made e-citizenship and voting for politicians online work – how could I not see a place where history and the future co-exist? I ended up going to Estonia twice and I found enough things to […]
Four hours. No more, and, thanks to Lux Express’s punctuality, no less. That’s all the time I had to visit Pärnu in winter (February 2017). Visiting a beach resort town in winter was probably one of the craziest things that I’ve done but I didn’t know if I was going to pass that way again. Hence, I […]
Our group had been walking into the dense spruce forest for fifteen minutes, but the Viru bog (Viru raba), the last item on our tour of Estonia‘s Lahemaa National Park, was still nowhere to be seen. The motorway, the noise and our minivan were far behind us; the air was fresh, and the thread-like moss that our driver Tarmo […]
Tartu is the last stop on what has been a delightful maiden visit to Estonia, a week which began with a stay in Tallinn and my first time on a kiik (Estonian swing). By the second afternoon in the city, I have walked the centre’s streets in both directions. Being midsummer, there is still plenty of daylight left even […]
As the minivan for our day trip pulls into Turbuneeme, a village within Estonia‘s Lahemaa National Park, our driver Tarmo turns to address us. ‘I have a little something to show you,’ the young lad says. His face fails to betray any excitement within though. He leads us – me, a German couple and three Americans – up a slope […]