VisitsAugust 17, 2008 4:28 pm

Guy and Solene in Estonia

Living far from your home country is usually having to get used being far from one’s family and friends. We must say that we have been quite priviledged on that part, for last year we have had up to 6 people from both our families come over as well as a couple of friends who made the trip all over to these northern lands.

This year, we were honoured to receive my uncle and cousin from France who have been faithfull readers of this blog and very good guests. It was a real pleasure to take them around and we must say we ate so very well during their stay. We had rented a car to show them around some of the more isolated places and for more comfort. We felt as kings enjoying a spa in Haapsalu, like Indiana Jones (some would say Tarzan) in the tree adventure park in Otepää, and finally like naturalists, strudying the plants and wetland lanscapes of North Estonia.

In just a few days, they made us feel at home, with nice conversations and laughs over card games late in the evening, but strangely we were like estonian hosts, proud to show our favourite spots.

VisitsSeptember 5, 2007 3:50 pm


At the very end of our friends stay here in Estonia, we decided to rent a car and go for a 4 day road trip to the southern and eastern part of Estonia. It was the best way for them and for us to discover places that we hadn’t seen yet and also to go to other places we wanted to show them. In such a short time, we saw so much of Estonia, mostly staying out of big cities, camping, staying in Margus’ farmhouse (one of our trainers) we really had an intense estonian experience.
Our itinirary was basically going to Lahemaa national park, then continuing East until we hit the russian border (where we still could see a statue of Lenin), then headed South, along the Peipsi lake and then down some more to Tartu, Võru, Mnt Munamägi (Estonia’s highest point 347m), Rõuge, a nice southern village, and finally Otepää, a place we had wanted to go to for some time where we did some good tree climbing before going back home… We stopped along the way quite a bit, to see more or less interesting sites not to far off the road. It was a good way to see the change in landscapes, habitat, vegetation.
The summer is almost coming to an end and I feel we got the best of these few days.