For trains from Tallinn to Riga & Vilnius book at ltglink.lt. Train times in Europe: int.bahn.de. Ferry operators to Estonia: www.tallink.com (Stockholm-Tallinn, Helsinki-Tallinn) Time zone & dialling code: GMT+2 (GMT+3 from last Sunday in March to last Saturday in October). Dial ...
Riga is a great place to visit, with more of a 'big city' feel than Vilnius or Tallinn. There are two basic options from the UK to Riga: Overland by train via Brussels, Berlin, Warsaw & Vilnius, or by train from London to Stockholm, overnight ferry to Tallinn, then bus to Riga. ...
Installing and setting up SQLite takes a matter of a few minutes. You can use SQLite from the command line tools, but there is a GUI-based utility which lets you use SQLite through a decent graphical interface. For this tutorial, you will be usingDB Browser for SQLite. To start, you wi...
While few EU or NATO leaders are as openly welcoming of Trump as Hungary’s Victor Orban, others among NATO’s newer members such as Poland and the Baltics states and those in the EU’s southeastern flank, which have most to lose from US abandonment, will simply put up with Trump, inclu...
Arriving in Vilnius I assumed it would be a similar story to Tallinn and Riga on my trip down through the Baltic States. As I wandered from the bus station down the streets to my hostel I got the distinct impression time was moving much slower here. Buildings appeared to show their age ...
Just south of Finland lies Estonia (Tallinn), with probably the dirtiest way of saying cheers: ‘Terviseks!‘. Use it with discretion. Go a little further down south to Latvia (Riga) and boast your knowledge of ‘Priekā!‘ as their way of toasting! Remember that it’s impolite to drin...
Hmm lets see… out of four nights in Tallinn I was out drinking like a fish on three of them and as such my misc cost are 75% beer 25% food. From the bottle of Vodka we bought (Tip buy the bottles that you can’t read the labels of) to the beers consumed it’s surprising I...
less crowded. They are very tech friendly here (it has the most tech start-ups per capita in Europe) and have a visa specifically designed for remote workers. It’s just a short ride from Helsinki, Finland and Riga, Latvia too, offering access to some of Europe’s most overlooked ...
Start from places where you will be understood in Russian. In Tallinn, Riga, or Montenegro resorts, you can communicate in your native language, while gaining the skills of independent travel. Alternatively, the options are even more straightforward – Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan....
Funnily enough, I still found plenty of time to enjoy myself, too. But the best part of it all was the sense of pride that arose from finally making choices that aligned with what I wanted in my heart–for this thing called blogging to be my ticket to the life I’d been chasing fo...