I’m gonna make a change, for once in my life It’s gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference Gonna make it right… When I agreed to join thousands of other bloggers in writing a post on the topic of poverty for Blog Action Day, I was forgetting one important detail. I, ladies and gentlemen, [...]
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I’ve said this sort of thing before, you know, but Tallinn is So Damn Cool. Today Riho and I joined the hatted and mittened Tallinners out for a Sunday afternoon stroll, crunching through piles of yellow, orange and red leaves and taking in the sights in another nearby area, Kopli. It’s a… how shall I [...]
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I’ve just been reading one of Bill Bryson’s hilarious books and laughing merrily to myself all the way through it. The man both delights and saddens me: the former because he writes like I can only dream of doing, making the most mundane things seem utterly hilarious; the latter because, well, he writes like I [...]
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Since recent posts seem to have involved supermarkets and customer service, I thought that this would be as good a time as any to tell you my tale about the time I was attacked with a lettuce by an angry Chinese woman. Doesn’t everyone have a story like this to tell? When I was a [...]
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So I’m wandering happily around the Rimi (local supermarket). It’s late in the evening – my favourite time to shop, when there are no queues and the only other people around are those as disorganised as myself who still haven’t managed to make dinner by 9pm. Take… onnnnnn… meeeeeee! I sing merrily as I contemplate [...]
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Having made the decision to stay in Estonia for while, the time has come for me to learn the language for real. The CD thing was – let’s be honest – a complete disaster, as it taught me random words that were of absolutely no use whatsoever when it came to trying to get by [...]
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Last night, feeling a bit restless from having been cooped up indoors for most of the day, Riho and I went for a spur-of-the-moment walk around the local area. Tallinn by night is something of a new experience for me, given that when I was here in the summer I very rarely saw any hint [...]
Filed under: cold, darkness, Estonia, Famous Five, Fear, freak-out, fun, paranoia, rats, walking | 2 Comments »
Last night I finally got to go for dinner at Peppersack, a really nice Medieval-style restaurant in Tallinn Old Town. You know… good hearty cuisine, candles, wooden beams, waitresses in traditional costumes, sturdy furniture, stone walls, and a bit of a swordfight when you’re waiting for your coffee. I’ll admit that this last one is [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
