Explore Estonia

Estonia's flatness has always been a problem from a defensive point of view, but it's great for cycling. In these pages, we'll talk about where Estonia is, and what it's like.

So you want to buy a house?

The Estonians I met during my travels were initially astonished at the idea that I might buy property in the old country. Why, was the first question. Who knows, the Russians may invade and then your asset will be no more. It’s true there is a lot to think about before taking any further steps. It has become a fashion to restore old farmhouses and surrounding buildings, the barn, woodshed, sauna house, potentially a well, and a cellar, dug separately half into the ground to k

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What land is this?

“What land is this / there is not single mountain / only forests, cut down, and boggy meadows / But the people here are awestruck / and strange are the lines of their song.” The first verse of a song Siiri Sisask wrote and performed in 1998, the tenth anniversary of the start of the Singing Revolution that heralded Estonia’s reindependence in 1991. I travel to northern Estonia, to a remote outdoor concert ground in fine weather, to see and hear a diva, and expecting to hear M

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