Mr. Raccoon is back again with some more amusement while Mr. Wasp is flapping his drunken wings and trying to hit the lightbulb back to England…
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Cheers!
Estonian season’s greetings from The Wasp and Mr Raccoon! After several years of saying I would get myself over to Estonia at Christmas time, I finally made it over and seem to have fallen into one or two beer bottles as wasps tend to do which may partially explain the deafening silence that has [...] As it’s time again for my Summer visit to Estonia posting may be a little sporadic for the next three weeks and possibly non-existent for a few days due an unfortunate internet router death at my friends appartment. Please feel free to have a root around amongst some of the 900+ posts using the [...] Completely random musing of the week… Estonia’s national flag is a simple design of three equal width horizontal bands in Blue, Black and White from the top. I had heard it said that the flag represents the familiar winter landscape of the country. Wiki has the following : There are a number of interpretations [...] Via Pravda, an amazing observation to make for a politician : Prime Minister Vladimir Putin considers a sharp increase in excise taxes on alcohol unacceptable. The measure would not reduce alcoholism and [would] trigger the growth of black market substitutes, as well as growth of moonshine production, says the prime minister. Earlier the idea [...] After my last visit to Estonia I wrote about swimming in open waters to demonstrate the difference in attitude to Health and Safety in Estonia when compared to the UK (go have a quick look at the linked article to educate yourself on the finer points of drunken swimming). Estonians generally tend to take [...] Having left the emerging springtime UK last Friday, arriving in Estonia was much like travelling back in time three months to mid-winter all over again. Being English, the weather tends to come up as a topic of conversation and it is interesting to hear people talking of how long and hard this winter has [...] | ||
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