Hotel Tartu

We stayed in Vikerkaare Külalistemaja guesthouse in Tartu. The room was large and cozy. The breakfast was a good one, but wasn't included in the room's price. The breakfast table had cereals, tea, coffee, milk, yogurt, boiled eggs, cucumber, ham, salami, cheese, dark and wheat bread, butter, porridge, kiwi and juice. Room price for twin room was 45 EUR, plus 5 EUR per person for breakfast.<br>

... other products. It was really quite amazing to be able to go walk around in that kind of atmosphere. The week of Student Days is technically not over as they have events all the way into Sunday evening. Not sure how many of those I'll end up participating in, however, as they're largely announced and explained in Estonian, and my grasp of the language is not that good yet. I had some relative successes this week, though...the market/grocery store next to our dorm has a hot bar in ...

... spend the night in the airport, and then fly the next day to Malta. After a few days of crashing on Brittany's floor, the two of us will fly to Florence, maybe spend the night in the airport (or get a cheap hostel), and then fly to Zadar, Croatia for 5 days!!! Zadar is a beautiful beach town right on the Adriatic and, just inland from the city, we can go hiking in the hills or go to the capital city (Zagreb) and see some Roman ruins and many other historical things. After a few ...

... of with our BSC commercials later this year. Setting up the AM station has been a big trial. At one point an attractive frequency in the 700 kilocycle range was granted, but then when the AM transmitting tower was set up it was found that that frequency had also been allocated to a Lithuanian station. It could have been taken to World Court, but it would have been too much to do that, so they were assigned another frequency in the less ...

... ask how I can get a taxi and if she call one for me. She would not, saying it was not possible. But, she pointed me towards the street and told me where the bus could be found. It was cold out and in the shelter I found a man whom I asked about how to get the center of town. He said that it was not really possible with one bus. Anway I followed him until the bus change. At the bus change I must have waited about 15 minutes and caught a bus that would hopefully take me ...

... banannas and apples (which we picked from the side of the road). Lunch would be some cheese, crackers or bread and gerkins , wich we were going through at the rate of a large jar a day. Dinner was generally spent at a pub \ reteraunt where we could sit , eat a little soup, stash the bread that we got with the soup in cath's beanie (for the next days breakfast), use the bathroom to do our teeth and hopefully watch a bit of tele before retiring to sleep in our car parked in the ...

... with Russia c. 1700, and many others burned in three great fires in the 18th century. In 1795, a law was passed, outlawing any but stone buildings in the old town. (You wonder that it took them three fires to figure this out? They're as bad as congress!) It is still possible to see some wooden buildings, though, and I visited one today in the form of the 19th Century Tartu Citizen's Home Museum. Constructed in 1744, the home is furnished in 1830s style. The museum ...

... return home. When Johnny came back to the apartment he had a big grin and said: "Good News and Bad News!" Which do you want to hear first? I always want the bad news first to get it out of the way. The bad news, he said, was that we have to get them back from the post office. The good news is that the Bible Study Courses printed in Ukraine have come to the Post Office. Wowsers! The final link has been ...