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Discovering Estonia


The best way for learning more about a country which offers much more than his famous capital Tallinn.

Meet  people, visit villages, discover histories and misteries here on Discovering Estonia

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Sunday, October 26 2008

Discovering Estonia: Paldiski and the Missed Chance

"Did you hear about our scandal? Did you hear that a Russian family wanted to send a kid to an Estonian school?" an official from Paldiski City Hall tells me about one of the hottest issues here and I finally start thinking that, maybe, someone realized the paradox of the 2-schools system.
But, as usual, I have been too naive.

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Sunday, September 28 2008

Discovering Estonia: Paldiski, Russians and the Coastline


Whatever people will say, that pork steak we had will stay as adorable as I immediately said: I never found anything tasting “so Sardinian” in the whole Europe.

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Tuesday, August 5 2008

Understanding Estonia: Singing Revolution

Discovering a country it is not only travelling around and enjoying the landscape. It is also understanding the culture, learning (at least trying to) the language, and above all knowing the history of a country as it is the basis of people's behaviour, hates, hopes, beliefs...

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Monday, August 4 2008

Discovering Estonia: Arrival in Paldiski

If last week a nice sunny day showed me a Sillamae I did not expect, this weekend our beloved Estonian weather followed us till Paldiski and reminded us that summer will be over soon.

Since when we announced that Discovering Estonia second step would have been Paldiski, we started to receive negative feedbacks from readers and friends: described – again – as one of the ugliest places on earth, this city does not seem to be much appreciated by people. Especially by those who have never walked in its streets.

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Sunday, August 3 2008

Discovering Estonia: From Tallinn to Paldiski



A bit packed in a white car gently offered by one of our coolest supporter in Tallinn, our Estonian cafebabel delegation is ready to move on the way to Paldiski: another former closed city with a nuclear past, a not so great present and a quite unpredictable future.
Let's try to know our reporters a bit better.

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Wednesday, July 30 2008

Discovering Estonia: *Update*



After the unexpected success of our new section which attracted more than 600 readers over the weekend, we decided to bring it forward and to start planning our next steps.

And, as we could not survive without you all, everyone is invited!

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Monday, July 28 2008

Discovering Estonia: Sillamae *Photogallery*



Curious to see how the city looks like?
Well..don't miss the photgallery then!

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Sunday, July 27 2008

Discovering Estonia: Fear and Loathing in Sillamae

Someone told me it is just because I ended up here on an incredible sunny day but, seriously, Sillamae did not look as one of the ugliest and most dangerous places in Estonia as, even yesterday night, someone wrote me on Facebook.

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