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Muhu Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Muhu, Estonia
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Sareemaar Islands
This is a top pick! The last few days of my cycle trip have been very enjoyable, perfect weather, beautiful countryside and sociable evenings. Estonia is a country I will definitely visit again. It has such a relaxed atmosphere, the people are genuinely polite and ...
Our first island : Muhu
... THAT small... We left Ele after a breakfast that consisted of porridge and apples, and took a bus to Kuivastu Harbour on Muhu island. Prices in Estonia are no longer as low as they used to be in "Eastern Europe" but bus tickets and ferry prices are ...
Saaremaa - pilgrimage to the old family homestead
On the weekend I took a trip to Saaremaa, a large island to the west of Estonia where my grandparents originally lived. After spending a morning walking around Kuresaare, the main town in Saaremaa, I took a taxi to Piila, a tiny hamlet in the middle ...
Second island : Saaremaa
We cleaned the summerhouse and got fresh wood for the sauna. Then we went to the bus stop, and we waited and waited and waited...until a minivan drove by, stopped 100 meters further, waited 10 seconds and then drove off again. It was only later that we ...
Meteorite Craters
We got up really early, ate some sandwiches and went to the bus station. There we met Piret, her parents and grandmother who were there to say goodbye to Piret who was going back to Tallinn to take a flight for Brussels where she lives now. We took a ...
Estonian Islands - Kuressaare
Kuresaarre is the capital of Saaremaa - the big, windy island off the coast of Estonia. The rebuilt Kuresaarre castle is complete with double moat, symmetrical towers and a spiky portcullis dangling at an alarming angle over the bolted wooden doors. It is ...
A Dumb and Dumber moment – starring us
... to the lesser explored Saaremaa Island to get a taste of Estonian island life, a culture we’d heard was the true 'old Estonia’. With the total island population of under 36,000 spread over an area 3.5 times the size of Calgary, we were pretty ...
Anybody wanna HitchHike ?
... were many dragon flies, so we had a great time taking macro shots of them. We walked up to another Orthodox church (most of Muhu was converted to the Russian-Orthodox religion) and finally had some luck because we got a lift to the cliffs. Well, we ...
Gravel roads, scenic? Not so much.
... jaunt and ferry ride to Hiiumaa - leisurely bike around Hiiumaa, with short visits to the only operating thatch roof church in Estonia with a lovely cemetery and supposedly scenic views of a long splint (?) of rocks extending into the sea (and then ...
Leisurely touring, butts healing, much better
... the ground," (aka, a 100 meter meteor crater, called a meteoriidkraater in Estonian...really, check out my awesome Estonia skiiilliids). Motty also accidentally ordered an alcoholic beverage at lunch, which could have proved disastrous for the afternoon ...
Kuressaare - Estonia
Saaremaa really is 'old Estonia'. A sizeable island off the north west coast, just south of Finland, during Russian occupation the island was 'off limits' and as a result the island has changed little for decades. It really does have the ...
Sareema
On the island Sareema, I found a small hostel located within a school. I was the only person I saw staying there. A beautiful little place, not very touristy at all. Most tourist are local and I think all would have cars, as when I tried getting around ...
A day in Kuressaare on Saaremaa island
A big sleep in this morning as we did't leave until 1000 for our tour of Kuessaare.. The hotel manager was our local guide who toured us around the highlights of this town working to become a resort town.. We went through the Kuressaare Fortress built in ...
Island of Saaremaa
... I know it'll only be a month or so before the first snow comes. So the island of Saaremaa isn't very populated (like all of Estonia) but it has several towns/ villages. We decided to see the island by bike so we all rented bikes and were off on an ...
Still dirty, but now also thirty
Today I turn 30 ... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well, what do you do? At least I'm turning 30 while doing what I love to do. And I must admit that celebrating a birthday in Europe for the 3rd year in a row is pretty cool. ...
Second and third island3
We took a small small road as it was evening and time to stop. We saw an even smaller road and Mara went to have a look. She came back happily waving her hands, it was a dream of a campplace at the sea-side: and old little harbour with a bench and a ...
lost on an island...
monday morning we left to that popular island in estonia called Saaremaa. we slept in marii´s aunt place 15 km west of kuressare, the "capital". Marii learnt us tat onthe island there are wolves, bears, etc... but we have seen the biggest mosquitos of ...
Its hot, the food is good and the beer is cold!!
After a four hour journey from Tallinn (Including a wee ferry trip!!) I was in Kuressaare, the capital of Saaremaa Island. Upon arrival it appeared to be a slightly dusty and unfriendly town, but after finding a place to drop my stuff and go out for a ...
Is "Panga Pank" the new "Hanky Panky"?
I had some trouble sleeping last night - I was coughing and wheezing all night long, and couldn't really breathe. Perhaps my body is breaking down now that I'm 30! Mary Moment #22: Mary screamed in the middle of the night, scaring the ...
Off to the islands
Off again by 0800 and on the road back to Estonia. After stopping to change money and pick up lunch for the ferry we headed to the 30 minute ferry crossing from Virtsu to Muhu island. While crossing we went through thunder and lightning storm! Rather ...
Second and third island
The previous time we were waiting for the boat to take us from Vormsi to Hiiumaa, our second island. Well, about that one we'll be very short: from what we could see trough the raindrops it made a very wet impression on us. Add to that we already took ...
Kuressaare
... the guy who works at the front desk of my hostel he informed me about a small town called Kuressaare which is on Estonia's largest island off the west coast. Apparently not too many backpackers head out this way so it sounded perfect. The next morning ...
The Baltics' best castle way out on this island
Long but worthwhile trip to the best castle of the trip in this beautiful, old town. The Google Earth image is fuzzy, the the map pin is right on the castle. ...
The islands and the coast of Estonia
After visiting the north coast of Estonia before going to Tallinn, we continued along the coast for some 500 km more. Most was on the two biggest islands of Estonia. Of those we like especially Saaremaa, the biggest one very much. It was raw,, the road ...
Kuressaare: the Island Where Time Stood Still
After a couple days in Tallinn I hopped a bus south to Kuressaari on the island of Saaremaa. The ride involved a ferry crossing and the final stop in what seemed, at fist glance, like a dirty town. Five minutes of walking revealed the much ...
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