Hotel Kongo Haapsalu

... it is. This means infrastructure--new roads, tall skyscrapers (much taller than in Helsinki), flashy malls, and higher prices. It means glitz and glamour everywhere, an infusion of products, a cornucopia of things for everyone to see and take part in. The young people have embraced this wholly, especially the girls, who seem to invariably wear pounds of makeup and shockingly short skirts (even for me). Something I really like about Helsinki, and Finland in ...

... after this Yngve comes to me and says my name while greeting. It turned out I and Tom knew the family already, but we didn' t recognise Yngve from inside the car. Then we got introduced to her baby girl and Urmet, the father. We had two fantastic days in Vormsi. Yngve and Urmet recomended good places to go to, told us some history of the island and her relatives house. We could stay in their cosy warm house. We went to see the cemetary and the church. Cemetary ...

Well what a journey from Tallin to Tuksi - how can they call them roads???!!!Honestley, these have to be, and we're hoping will be the worst roads we will have to go on throughout our travels, as they were unbelievable - dirt track after dirt track, rubble after rubble for nearly 2 hours - can u imagine if we'd gone the wrong way - aaarrghhhhhh!!We were very shocked our Winnie was still in one ...

... ever, two huge plates of pork schnitzel and salad and chips for about 12 Euros, quiet tasty. The most memorable thing about Haapsalu was the camp site, it was very basic, but when we booked in and told the lady we were from Australia she gasped and repeated Australia in a surprised manner. The next thing we know a little Australian flag was put up along with the German and Finish flags. It was quiet touching; we didn't think they would have one.

... excellent camping lunch at 5pm at a bus stop in Nõva -- black bread, sausage, yummy tomatoes, cucumbers, cheese (thanks to Bethany for superuseful Swiss army knife, circa 1990, still sharp) - probably some church, can't really remember much else, it was a long day - finally getting to Haapsalu after many many hours of hard biking ...

Destination 23:   km43'335 Der Sonderausflug reduziert sich nur auf Insel Saaremaa, da Fähre nach Hiiumaa nur 4x täglich fährt. Darum gehts weiter um sicherzustellen, dass WM- Match FRA-SUI in Tallinn gesehen werden kann... Beinahe gestürzt während Fahrt, da Strasse Baustelle war und dies in Estland heisst: Fahrbahn ist nicht mit Schotter, sondern mit bis zu ...

... geschlichen und dann unters Vorzelt....... Eine Katze!! XXXXX The cold weather has gone and it's getting warm! I stoped in Liiva for a special trip to the islands Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. I feel deep bad about the occurence from yesterday and even I got shocked by night as there was a cat crawled under the outer tarp.........a cat!!

... Estonia. He decir que en estas fotografías no aparecen todas las personas que han sido importantes para mi, de una u otra manera.....vosotros ya sabeis quien sois, y si no estais en este "catálogo" es porque o no tenía una foto vuestra o no me gustaba la fotografía (hablando estéticamente). Todas estas fotos están ahora mismo formando un mural que cuelga de la pared de mi habitación en TAllinn... ------- I ...

... question as advance turned to disoriented retreat back toward the centre of town - warm mud was to be our solace roday. Alas that wasn't to be either - the local tourist information service advised us that the two spas dealing in mud were both closed for a couple of weeks after new year and that one would be open on the 16th. Stiff do do til then. Then they ...

After a refreshing night in the summerhouse, we had a healthy breakfast with porridge and sandwiches. Ele's supercar then took us much further, all the way to Ristinina and Vihterpalu, where there are still some beautiful manors (richly decorated houses that belonged to the nobility). I don't remember all the names, but there were some near Padise and Kurkse. Most of them are privately owned, and therefore not accessible, but one had been converted into a ...