As we came to the end of the Estonian leg of our trip, we decided that we should probably drink up some of the bottles we’d collected over the past three weeks or so (it also meant we wouldn’t have to carry them around any longer!). We took advantage of a quiet evening in Võru …
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 …
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 …
En route from Riga to Tallinn we decided to stop for a few nights in Pärnu, a beach resort known as Estonia’s Summer Capital. As we came out of season it was pretty quiet but that drew no complaints from us. It also saw Poppy’s first experience of staying in a hostel – I think …
Thanks to some very cheap Ryanair flights, our first stop on the tour was Riga. We’d visited Latvia’s capital city before but having enjoyed it last time we looked forward to exploring further, including finding new beer places. In the three years since we were last here, a raft of new craft beer bars have …
