It’s common sense that wherever you can find students you can usually find plenty of beer. Heading to Tartu, known in Estonia for housing the country’s oldest and most prestigious university, therefore seemed like a sensible option. As well as the university, the “city of good thoughts” as it’s known is also home to one …
I hadn’t originally intended to write about anything in Tartu. Tartu is one of the major university towns in Estonia, and aside from its academic prowess and associated architecture, it was meant to be a break for us after a hectic week in the capital. What we didn’t plan is a long weekend of solid …
On a previous visit to Riga I had visited the KGB cells Museum and was taken aback by this huge block of recent history that is somewhat unknown in the UK, especially for people my age. Estonia was part of the Soviet Union until its break-up in 1991, and in Tallinn especially there are two …
After a few days spent relaxing on Saaremaa, it was time to head to Estonia’s capital city of Tallinn. We’d done our research and had a list of pubs and bars recommended by friends, people we’d met and, of course, the Internet. Our first task, once we’d managed to haul our backpacks up to the …
After four nights by the beach, it was time for us to head off to the island of Saaremaa for a few more relaxing days. Our apartment in Kuressaare (I tried to convince Poppy to stay at the €7 a night campsite but she was having none of it) was roughly three hours from Pärnu …
