Hotel Kubija Tartu

Nüüd siis kui lennuki piletid on olemas, on täpselt õige aeg hakata uurima, kuhu siis täpsemalt minek on ning millega tuleks sihtriigis arvestada.

Peale väikest otsingut selgus, et esmane info mida google pakub on see, et tegemist on riigiga kuhu võimalusel ja vajadusel siis pigem mitte minna. Üksi liikudes sind tõenäoliselt röövitakse pa...

Tartu is supposed to be nice. I wouldn't know. We didn't have time to stop and look. Finances, time and route planning meant the 'burbs and the railway station were all we saw. We headed south, determined to get to Kaunus for Nick's flight on Sunday evening. We skirted Voru on the way, waving a greeting to my penpal Silva, who lives there, but w...

-->Beautiful weather, fewer classes, and party time! Well, I think it's been about a week and a half since my last entry, and there's a simple solution for that - nothing exciting happened for about a week :) The last few days have been more interesting, though, so I now have things to write about. Genevieve and I finalized the dates and time...

After 56km trip we are in Karupesä Hotell in Otepää. We left Tartu at 9.00, following the Estonian cycling route 3 which follows the main road number 3. The road was in a pretty good shape,
with wide, 3-4m gravel road shoulders. Drivers were very friendly, every bus, truck and car gave road to us in intersections and passed us by at safe dist...

After our weekend in England, I headed to Estonia with Peter. We spent the better part of Sunday traveling, by bus, plane, and bus again. Shortly after arriving in Tartu, we met a couple of Peter's friends and went to the grocery store. I always love grocery shopping, especially in foreign countries. So I was excited to wander around and see wha...

It's been over a week since my last entry and quite a lot has gone on, but it's all becoming part of the normal day-to-day life here and time has been absolutely *flying* by. I've been here for 7 weeks. SEVEN WEEKS. Yikes. However, this past week demonstrated to me one of the ways in which I've changed in my time here: spoken language. Obviously...

Well, the excitement from 2 consecutive travel weekends has worn off as I had a normal week of school and then nowhere to go on Thursday. Classes were fine and we received our group assignments for the case study project in "The EU and the Challenge of Enlargement" class; I'm working with two others on Belarus, which should be interesting since ...

Next weekend a few of us international students are going to go skiing at Otepää, a town in southern Estonia that's home to the highest point in the country - a whopping 318 meters. International students get a ridiculous discount for equipment rental and lift tickets, so that'll be a really good and cheap experience of Estonian life. Two weeks ...

It's beautiful outside. A few days ago they had a big snowfall and the ground is fully covered with white. Temperature is just below freezing. We are looking forward to our second Sabbath on this trip and this time it will be in the Smiltene Baptist Church with Pastor Robert Schultz. Most of the Church has been keeping the 7th Sabbath Day. One ...

It is my best intention to write entries such as this after every country I visit. While the reflections might be of interest to the casual reader, the practicalities probably will not, but I hope they might be of use to someone planning a trip to the country I have just visited. Reflections: I have wanted to come to Estonia since I was 12 and s...