The bus from Tartu to Valjandi was a little over an hour, and couldn’t purchase tickets at the times I’d planned out in my head for a day trip here. So with taking what I could book, I arrived at the ungodly hour of 9:30am, while the majority of Estonia still slept. Thankfully there was…

Immediately obvious is that Tartu is a university city. The city centre is filled with millennials, 20 year old’s wearing hipster fashion to make them stand out from the other sheep, and with a music festival heating up the coming weekend, the muso’s and goths began filtering into the city by the end of the…

The bus station was a 45min walk from the Old Town. A small station that had buses running to a variety cities, from St Petersburg to Vilnius in Lithuania. With the cold weather and the grey sky above threatening rain, it was hardly a surprise the bus was close to empty, as Pärnu was known…

The town of Rakvere was just over an hour train ride. And the train station was situated just outside of the Old Town I was staying in, so a brisk 20mins walk brought me to Estonia’s modern rail system. Picture if you will – buying tickets online, boarding a perfectly clean train with broad and…

The cruise from Helsinki to Tallinn, Estonia’s capital, took just over 2 hours, on calm waters with only the lullaby hint of being on the sea. There must have been a good 500 people, and having a walk around to check out all the bars and buffets, I was pretty sure I represented the only…