Carolina Hotel Parnu

... carriageway. The town has a nice pedestrianised centre and pastel coloured shops and restaurants lining the way. Nick wanted to go to the beach and I needed to take Saskia's toe to be looked at. The last couple of times I'd changed the bandage, some pus had oozed out of one of the holes made by the stitches.

I picked up a tourist map, and identified the little red cross symbol for a doctors, and went looking for the clinic with Saskia. Nick wandered off in ...

... shall we say. Put it this way, Mel pointed out that he could clearly see the hole for the mini-golf because there was a weed growing in the middle of it. To be honest, I'd thought the concrete overgrown area was the remains of a building's foundations, rather than mini-golf.

The climbing wall was not much better. There was one tall tower, that needed a harness and sported a slightly frayed rope. There was also a traversing wall, with the holds fixed ...

... first pictures in front of Kersti's house, bought some water cause all the signs showed it was going to be a hot day, and started walking towards the suburbs. First car driver, heard that we didn't take a tent for this big adventure, was kind enough to offer his tent to us. It also turned out that his mother had been given Kersti some lectures about social sciences in university. A few ...

... had traditional saunas for men and women, one Turkish-style steam sauna, one 15m swimming pool, one smaller pool with warm water (27°C) and jacuzzi for 5-6 people. Unsurprisingly, the jacuzzi was full most of the time. Maybe other spa treatmets like infra-red sauna, massage etc make this a good spa (didn't try those) but I wouldn't come here for the pools.

After taking a part in a minor sauna competition with some other Finnish guys and walking to the showers I nearly ...

... of Tallinn. Instead of stopping by at least for a day and taking a proper look around, all I got there was just a brief stop-over. They say the town becomes pretty sleepy come autumn, but in summer it allegedly springs to life with life on the beach, dozens of festivals, night clubs and the big party crowd that moves in here for the season. Of course, for us from the Mediterranean, saying that a town above 58° of ...

This blog is now finished. I will stay in Estonia for a couple of days, celebrate the weekend in Riga, and fly to Singapore on Monday. I will be living & working in Singapore for about 1-1,5 years (well, that's at least the plan), traveling around the neighboring countries. If and when I manage to create a blog about my trips around there, it will most probably reside in blogspot.com. Life goes on. Enjoy every moment.

... one too fast (so almost got fined) Generally, it feels very strange, looking back at the past weeks. So many different places, so different people, so different experiences. A bit unbelievable that I was in South Africa only yesterday. But what do you know - just a bit more than 20 hours of flying, sleeping, eating, driving - and that's that!

We are in Talinn. This is a great city. We had been here in 2001 so we have noticed the enormous progress the city has undergone since then. We arrived here yesterday afternoon. Last night we had a meal provided in the hotel so we did not venture out. This morning we left on a tour of the city. It was a public holiday here celebrating their Independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Last night there had been a huge singing festival to celebrate this event. Our guide ...

After arriving 2 days ago with the promise of Estonia's greatest beaches, where the locals flock in droves to - we discovered, you guessed it RAIN. Beautiful beach yes - long, wide and golden sand but not much fun in the rain, I'm certainly not singing! As for the place, nice little town with 25,000 people, and we did meet our first ...

... Somebody call the X-Files, I think we have a story here! Anyway, the Museum was actually pretty interesting and a nice place to spend some time. Then we went back to the city centre for a little shopping. We ran into that German couple again, while they were sitting outside having lunch. Including today's bus ride and the ride from Tallinn to Saaremaa, that's three times we have seen them. We stopped at an art ...