Tag: estonia
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“Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again…”
Estonia is great, I’m Tallinn ya! Thursday-Friday, June 26-27, 2025 I wanted to subtitle this post, “Eesti meets Westsiders” (“Eesti” is the Estonian name for Estonia). But Stef overruled me. The Tallink ferry, “MyStar“, was more like a luxurious ocean liner than, say, the Staten Island Ferry. We were among 2,800 passengers who left Helsinki…
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“Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again…”
What the Hel[sinki]…. Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Finland was under Swedish rule until 1809, when the Swedes lost Finland to Russia. The Finns won their independence in 1917. But then they lost it again under the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, when they had to fight the Russians to a cease-fire in 1944. Nonetheless, Finland established…
Something to Declare 