Not wolves, bears or lynxes – the meanest critter in Estonia is 2mm long, and almost impossible to avoid. Ticks are much like spiders and...

On 20 August 1991 a column of Soviet tanks and armoured vehicles advanced towards Tallinn from Russian Pskov in the southeast. This...

For a slice of Estonia’s living past, try paddling a hollowed-out, sideways-stretched aspen log. We found the haabjas surprisingly light...

“My fatherland is my love; abandon it I shan’t,” sing the words of poetess Lydia Koidula. In 1944 our grandma did leave Estonia, dad in...

Ever thought of looping 360 degrees on a swing? Invented in Estonia, the sport of kiiking is just that; to win, you go full circle at a...

Ranging from the size of a fist to that of a house, the millions of blocky crystalline stones strewn along the Baltic coast cannot fail...

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...

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...

Estonia's problem from a defensive point of view is that it is basically flat. Great for cycling but not for repelling invaders, and...

We had 10 saunas during our trip, the pride of our Estonian hosts, often, the centre piece of their homes. The Estonian word is saun ,...

On 23 August 1989, two million people linked hands across the Baltic States, a line 676 kilometres long. Stretching from Tallinn to...