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Memories of a "frozen" Erasmus
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Dark-Haired´s decision
“Europe´s living a celebration! Todos juntos vamos a cantar!” That was the song. The only one that my friends and I sang when I chose my Erasmus destination. (Thank you Eurovision!! At least everybody could located Estonia in a map). “Why Estonia? You are gonna...
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The beginning
It is more than three years since I went to Tallinn but I still remember the day I arrived there: the 8th of August of 2009. I was terrified because my tutor could not go to pick me up from the airport,and I did not know that much about the city, so once I arrived I...
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Beach time!!!
Summer time in Tallinn is pleasant, sunny and mild. It is possible to enjoy the big amount of solar hours and the good weather while doing different activities such as walking, riding a bike or going to the beach. Yes, there are beaches in Estonia!! And really nice...
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Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city of Estonia, and it is, also, considered as the intelectual city of the country because there are historical and new universities in there. If you decide to visit this city you must have a walk in the main square, you should visit some...
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From Tallinn to the world
Living in Tallinn is amazing. You can enjoy doing different activities everyday of the year, not only in summer time but during the winter time too. The city is really pleasant, divided by the old town and the modern part. It is full of gardens surrounding it, so in...
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Stockholm trip (Part 1)
Some days ago I talked about the two Stockholms; the summer and the winter one. So now, I am going to talk about the trip to Stockholm. As I said, to go from Tallinn to Stockholm there is a ferry during the night that leaves Tallinn something around 18.00pm. It was...
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CHRISTMAS TIME (Part 1; Finland trip: Helsinki time!!)
It is christmas time, at least in the place where I live, so let me talk you about my christmas time in Tallinn. It started at the end of November with the trip to Finland organized by ESN Tallinn.We were a big group of people, I do not remember the exact number, that...
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CHRISTMAS TIME IN TALLINN (Part 2; Finland trip: The zoo)
As I told you some days ago, actually last year, my christmas time in Tallinn started at the end of November with the trip to Finland. Last time, I wrote about our day visiting Helsinki. After it we took the bus. The trip was long enough to sleep. It took us 10 hours to...
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CHRISTMAS TIME IN TALLINN (Part 3; Finland trip: Rovaniemi)
Finally we arrived to Rovaniemi. The bus left us in the hotel´s main door, once inside we were divided in rooms for two or three people. I slept with my pillow´s brothers, we had really fun those nights. Although it was cold we decided to go for a walk around the...
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Üks kohvi, palun
Learning Estonian is not so easy, but we did our best during the language course. Since the beginning the teachers tried to make us speak Estonian, it was really fun, there were times that we did not know what were we talking about… But we could learn the basic...
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Shopping time!!
Two days ago I debated if the stores should be opened or closed on Sundays. It made me think about Tallinn. It was our first Sunday in the city. We woke up that morning without any concrete plan. It was a sunny day, so my roomates and I decided to go to the downtown to...
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The visitor
“9th of October. Three people are ordering some coffees at Robert´s coffe in Viru Keskus. Two of them are Erasmus, and they live in Tallinn since August. One of them is a visitor. She comes from Spain. Autumn in Spain is being really warm. The three of them go to...
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Sauna
It was a normal afternoon during my second week in Tallinn when I discovered how many useful things you can do with a sauna. I walked from my estonian friends´ apartment to the Academic Hostel. I just wanted to have dinner and to make the “transformation”...
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Saarema
When people listen to the word “Saarema” they may think on the island, maybe on the water brand, maybe about vodka… But when I listen to that word I only think about our trip to Saarema. The trip was organized by the EBS during the time we were taking the Estonian...
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Stockholm
In my opinion there are two Stockholms: - Summer Stockholm: When the sun is shinning, it is beatiful to get lost among the downtown´s streets, to lay down in a garden´s grass and to walk for hours while eaten an ice cream. "Summer Stockholm" shows the tourist its...
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ESN Tallinn
I would like to recommend to all the Erasmus in Tallinn to join ESN Tallinn. ESN (Erasmus Student Network) is a non-profit organization that helps Erasmus students to make their Erasmus period rewarding as posible. ESN Tallinn, concretly, helps Erasmus people to meet...
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Summer time means cycling time
It was still August when our intensive course´s teachers prepared a bike riding tour from the city center to Pirita. The weather was nice, an tour seemed interesting, but... It was like ten years since I did not ride a bike, so I was a bit scared. First of all, we met...
