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Estonian etiquette
Keep at least 3 metres' distance from someone you haven’t met before, says a website on how to socialise in Estonia. We thought we’d...
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Nov 6, 20233 min read


Death at the stroke of a pen
More than two years ago I discovered among our father’s papers several typewritten copies of a two-page document he had never mentioned,...
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Oct 25, 20233 min read


Estonia's most dangerous animal
Not wolves, bears or lynxes – the meanest critter in Estonia is 2mm long, and almost impossible to avoid. Ticks are much like spiders and...
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Oct 20, 20232 min read


An old farmhouse
Deep in our family memory is the farmstead, the talu where grandma grew up and where dad spent a winter and spring during the war. While...
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Sep 28, 20234 min read


Soul of Estonia
More than half of Estonia’s land area is forest, and so the forest figures large in the Estonian imagination, in myth and legend, culture...
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Sep 23, 20232 min read
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