Part 2 – Estonia Workshop and Weekend Conference Our Estonia stay began with a two day conference at the Esna Manor where a variety of people gave presentations and slideshows of their work in the Baltic States, mainly Estonia, but Latvia and Lithuania as well.  We’ve managed to avoid anything like this over the years where we had to sit through programs with talks all day, but in this case there was little choice as it rained for two days […]

Before we left for Europe we attempted a small amount of research via the internet on the countries we would visit just to get a little better idea of where we would be going.  When searching Estonia, the web provided only a small amount of information and consequently I don’t think we had high expectations for that tiny country that for so long was part of the old Soviet Union.  The short version of this story is that our perceptions […]

We’re landing in Tallin, the capital city of Estonia, the sun is just setting – it’s 11 PM. We spent the first week of our trip in England and as the English would say, our stay was “lovely”, the weather sufficiently wet to last us for a while, the countryside a monotone green except for the electric yellow flowers of the rape fields.  Todmorden landscape. The first two days we spent on a tour of straw bale buildings with our […]