Semester in Estonia/Tallin

Spending a longer time of your life in another country can teach a lot. It can make you rethink your construct of the world that you have in your mind. It can show you styles of life's and see yourself from another perspective.  Public transport is free Which does not mean that it's the best idea to make it for free. The transportation is mostly quick and on time. For me this was very convenient during my semester to go for example to university or visit the beach. Still the market of E-Scooters, taxi and car rentals are booming. You can literally always see a rental car on the streets. I can only assume why. I think that the free availability makes the public transport in Estonia a transportation for poorer people. Not taking public transport can providing social status. On the streets you can see a lot of expensive cars. On the other side students from wealthy countries like Germany prefer the convenience of a taxi or short car rental(here provided by bolt) instead of taking ...

 299 students and me went to Lappland, organized with the best promoted travel organization at university's in Estonia and probably the whole north of Europa. We went to Saariselkä. The Village has currently 311 inhabitants and has around 10.000 beds for tourists. The place is beautiful different than what we are used from central Europa. It is cold. Soil is poor of nutrition. Life is slow and rare. We had temperatures from -4 to -15°C. Sun went down at 15:00. Everything is frozen and nothing moves. The atmosphere is lifeless, timeless and completely calm After 2 hours of hiking I was so surprised to find a living creature. This squirrel seems very prepared for the winter The sun disappears early. Ski Loipe and hiking paths have lamps in the forest. Santa Claus We visited the real Santa Claus in Finnland! It is a beutiful decorated village with a lot of things to do(if you have enough money). We visited Santa in his village called Santa Claus village and actually there are 3 Santa ...

 Clarissa and me went to a short Trip to Riga. Since I am in the Baltics I must visit the City. Even with cloudy weather and some rain it is a nice city, cheap prices, big old town and the interesting contrast that I know from Tallin. The Center of Riga seems rich in the first sight, but when you drive some minutes outsides of the city you will definitely find numerous gigantic old soviet blocks. In the old town there are preserved or reconstructed a lot of old impressive buildings, like the Headquarters of gilds. Riga started to grow as a city when Albert of Riga a German bishop from Bremen went to Riga to crusade the city and bring Christianity. For this reason you can find a lot of churches in Riga. What are the Bremer Stadtmusikanten doing in Riga? Tourists are confused. Buildings in the centre once owned by one of the Gilde in Riga Churches everywhere in the centre 5 Old German Zeppelin are reused as market halls since 1930. They are busy visited by locals and the prices are a...