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And so, I hang up my notebook and pen for another year. The tales of my adventures is complete — recorded in these pages: Adventures in Estonia …complete with an Endnote and an Afterword. Which means that I can get…
Continue readingEmotional Farewells and Fond Memories Day 11. 6 August 2003 Wednesday. Bed at 2am, I wake at 8 after an interruption at 6 when Shaun leaves without so much as a goodbye leaving his lunchbox behind for us to remember…
Continue readingThe Crazy Gang At Large in Tallinn (reprise) Day 10. 5 August 2003 Tuesday. Today I lie in to the grand ol’ hour of 8 o’clock. I’ve slept well — having settled surprisingly well back into the comfort of beds…
Continue readingA selection of photographs culled from the mammoth collection I have (thanks sorrowthorn and Alice) are now available in the Estonian section of visuals … so head on over and enjoy!
Continue readingAmber Shops and Elevants Day 9. 4 August 2003 Monday. Wake at 0700 hours. Seleft reasonably well last night despite the 2am-ish finish of the Truth or Dare and the cold feet in the early hours of Monday dawn. I…
Continue readingOkay, so it’s long, and he doesn’t yet know about LJ-Cuts but check out sorrowthorn if you really don’t believe me…?!!!
Continue reading( well, at least the sitcom…?!! ) My LiveJournal Sitcom plate and motorcycle (TBS, 10:30): shepline (Kate Beckinsale) and oxfordslacker (Vincent Price) don’t believe in Scientology. Soon afterwards, tinyjo (Chloe Sevigny) buys a wheelbarrow from writing_101 (Ellen DeGeneres). Then, moonglade…
Continue readingBoat trips, native horses and tug-o-war… Day 8. 3 August 2003 Sunday. The second of two leisure days. So, what’s on the itinerary? A boat trip, riding native horses (but round a paddock rather than the countryside) and a trip…
Continue reading“And another thing I’d like to remember to you…” Day 7. 2 August 2003 Saturday. “The interesting thing is that…” there’s something else that I have to tell you. Ester is one of those people – a historian, archeologist and…
Continue readingEnjoy days 1 to 6 of my recent adventures in the Baltic State, now illustrated from the archive 572 photographs… …days 7 and beyond appearing in a web browser near you soon!
Continue reading( Alice – see Adventures in Estonia – hijacked my computer to post this ) help!!! am trapped in house in bicester with two members of crazy gang. have got copies of our photos – an impressive 560 in total!!…
Continue readingBathing in the Baltic and al fresco dining Day 6. 1 August 2003 Friday. “Pinch, punch, the first of the month, and no return.” Steve, Vicky and myself are woken at the breakfast table from our weery state of semi-conciousness…
Continue reading1. When you were ten, what did you want to be when you grew up? So many things. I started writing when I was 9 – so of course I wanted to be a writer. But a vet, that was…
Continue readingThe woods, frisbie, liqueurs and tongue-twisters Day 5. 31 July 2003 Thursday. We return to the farm in our school bus but this time not to transfer to a collection of faithful if ailing vehicles. The woods where we are…
Continue readingIt is not a spoiler to say, that last nights The Tempest by the Creation Theatre was a truly magickal experience. Go see it you must, and if you could just tell me how they do that bit at the…
Continue readingHay Making and Rides in the Mobile Sauna Day 4. 30 July 2003 Wednesday. Our thirty-seater German school bus arrives shortly after 9.15 to take us to the farm and to our first day of work. It is after barely…
Continue reading“So – that’s it. I think.” Day 3. 29 July 2003 Tuesday. It’s the first morning on Saaremaa and I wake early – this time due to the uncomfortably hard beds – or boards – as we like to call…
Continue readingWhatever happened to…? Day 2. 28 July 2003 Monday. Rising from my slumbers at six-thirty, I shower and repack my rucksack for the day ahead. Later, as others emerge from their rooms, and we discuss how much sleep we have…
Continue reading( or The Crazy Gang and the Curse of the Sacred Tooth ) Crazy But Cool Day 1. 27 July 2003 Sunday. Shortly after 3pm I was joined at Gatwick by Vicky – as promised from the Gatwick Express –…
Continue readingLured by the attraction of Estonian photos, a renowned Thomas prepared meal and genuine Estonian honey liquor and Valla Tallinn, soulsong braved hot weather, humidity and thunderstorms and drove out from Reading to Bicester to experience all of the above….
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