Answers to the question “What did you fancy the most in Berlin?” usually include the East Side Gallery, the Brandenburg Gate, the many parks in town or, from a non-tangible point of view, its shocking, impressive history, which one can … Read More

Young means young everywhere. Definitions could be various but for me being young has nothing to do with age. Instead - young equals being curious, full of energy and enthusiasm about things that (hopefully) matter. However it, as well, is … Read More

Clicking through the photographs, I pause on one called View from Viru Hill. It’s a great vantage point overlooking the lively street, possibly noon time, a flood of pedestrians strolling on the right hand side, a black Volga entering the … Read More

4 months of Erasmus exchange studies in the Northern capital of Iceland, Akureyri. Plenty of absolutely new and breath-taking experience. If you think about it - you can do a lot in 4 months. You can live every minute of … Read More

It seems that in October 2013 none of us saw that coming. Especially us – three Latvian students that were excited to buy super-cheap flight tickets for January in Kiev. All of us had visited Ukraine before and we were … Read More

Not too far from my own home in Berlin lives Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke, writer, translator and head of the literature project “Baltic Sea Library”*. We meet on a grey, rainy afternoon in his appartment, have coffee at the kitchen window and … Read More

It’s already 2014, but some wishes and promises related to the coming boating season are in order. Because the omnipotent Santa can get me anything, I will not limit myself to wish for concrete things such as technical devices (which … Read More

I was sitting in the church on Christmas Eve and I realized that it would be a very interesting blog about Estonian Christmas traditions. Luckily my camera was with me so I started shooting the pictures right away for the … Read More

Alike probably all other nations, also Finns have a love-hate relationship with winter, with the difference that people in Finland are more likely to abide with snow and all, but also society and infrastructure don’t crash which make the entire … Read More

It’s the pungent notes of ginger, vanilla and cloves that triggered my attention. The cookies’ crunchy texture with subtle aromas of nutmeg and ginger make it hard to resist. Like Italians’ who enjoy their much loved fruit bread, pannetone at … Read More

As many of us I, too, sometimes have those moments of solitude to be filled with plenty of questions in mind. About the concept of home, about the size of our world and even the mighty universe (that is the … Read More

Last weekend of November I went to Helsinki, Finland to visit some good friends of mine. I have already been to Helsinki twice before, but that was some years ago, visiting other friends that did not live in the capital. … Read More

Today we can celebrate the darkest time of the year in Estonia. The days are very short, the sun rises at 9 am and the sunset is as early as 3:20 pm. On cloudy days it feels like the sun … Read More

The Baltic region has again received a fair share of harsh winter storms. It is common knowledge that weather plays a big role in boatman’s life and, perhaps surprisingly, winter time makes no exception. Namely, in many parts of the … Read More

We Finns are enthusiastic about winter sports being a nation all the way up at the Northern edge of Europe. And above all, we are an ice hockey nation. There is no other sport that connects the nation like the … Read More