The line of craft beer bottles on the back wall behind the bar was intimidating. Not just because the room was so dark you couldn’t see the contents, but because neither of us were beer drinkers.
Category: Culture
Estonian World: Week of Seto culture takes place in Paris
A week of events about the traditions of the Estonian Seto community will take place in Paris this week – the first event of its kind to ever happen in France.
Estonian World: Meet the Japanese friendship society that loves Estonian food and culture
It isn’t easy to find blood sausage, black bread and herring in Japan, but every year more than 100 people come together to cook a traditional Estonian meal in Tokyo.
Baltic Times: Ten Estonian writers to be given state grants
TALLINN - Ten Estonian artists and writers will be given an annual salary for three years by the government under a new scheme to encourage the arts and bring “precious creations” to light.
ERR News: Government gifts newborns books to motivate reading
All babies born in Estonia in 2015 and onwards will receive a book from the government to encourage their parents to read to them.
Estonian World: Students create giant wooden megaphones to help people listen to Estonian nature
If a tree falls in the forest and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? So the old saying goes.
ERR News: Medieval objects found in Tallinn building site ships
Cooking pots, barrels and clothes have been pulled from the wreckage of three medieval ships uncovered in a Tallinn building site.
Baltic Times: Medieval Ships Uncovered Beneath Tallinn Building Site
TALLINN - The remains of several medieval ships have been uncovered in a residential area of Tallinn by builders constructing new apartment buildings.
ERR News: Language is not the only way to integrate says foundation
There are more ways to integrate than simply speaking the same language, Estonia's Integration and Migration Foundation has said.
Baltic Times: Estonia Commemorates 1941 deportations
TALLINN - Thousands of people across Estonia paid their respects to the memories of more than 10,000 of their fellow countrymen and women, who were deported in 1941 by the Soviets.
Helen Wright 