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... of beach towels. The clinic wasn't hard to find. They took pity on a confused English tourist and took a look at Saskia's toe despite being a psychiatrists. They probably gave it some therapy too. The psychiatric nurse cleaned it up and disinfected it, the way I'd been doing, but this time with some bright green antiseptic that made Saskia's toe look like it belonged to a witch. They said the stitches could come out tomorrow and they didn't seem worried about the ...

... a line at exactly the right height for the person who has set them. In other words, if you aren't six foot two, you are stuffed. Both would probably give you splinters, as the chipboard they are fixed to was swollen and split with age and weather. It was only for the brave, believe me!

So, I set up the tent while the kids bounced on the trampoline. Then Nick made pancakes on the little campstove I'd bought all those weeks ago in England. He managed to set ...

... later we were already in Latvia. We had promised ourselves that we only hitch hike cars, no lorries, but after a nice lorry driver offered us a ride in a parking lot, we couldn't say no. So we had to eat our words already a couple of hours after after promising that. It was also our first experience with Russian on this trip. Next driver, a quiet nice man, told us a joke about Estonians ...

... 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!

... our way through them. We stopped for awhile , hopefully to let the rain abate. When we regathered it was lighter. Uve , our guide, showed us the Town Hall Square which was much the same as we remembered except there was a large stage erected for a concert that afternoon. We then went down to Catherine street which was where the Dominican Monastery once was. The tour ended not much further on but we stayed on in the old city.We had hardly seen any of the surroundings ...

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 ...

... of Tallinn station, an early start but one that was necessary for the day trip I was embarking on. Viktorria had given me a travel tip to take a trip out to Saaremaa, an Estonian island on the west coast. It would be an 8hr round trip so to have any time to explore the island I needed to leave early. She had mentioned that its something she and her mother like to do when she is home and when she also mentioned that it's also off the tourist trail somewhat I was eager to go. Once ...