Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
Once the Danish fortified trading town of Reval, the Estonian capital is a stunning city that is beautiful at just about anytime of year. Whether the city is covered in snow or in the middle of the summer heat, it manages to look just as pretty! Geography Tallinn is located on the Bay of Tallinn, …
Located inland, in the heart of old Livonia, Tartu is a university town like no other. The oldest city in the Baltics, it has lost much of its historic core to the ravages of war and Soviet town planning, yet what remains is surely impressive. The city was better known as its German name of …
Ordensburg may seem like a foreign name to most, but back in the medieval ages, you couldn’t make your way though old Livonia without running into one. Viljandi was one of these Ordensburgs, a German name for crusader’s castles that were constructed in the Baltic Region by monastic orders such as the Teutonic Knights and …
Located on the border between two nations, it may not seem that Valga and Valka are different cities. “One Town, Two Countries”, the old Livonian town of Walk’s has only ever been one even through occupation by the Livonian Order of the Sword, The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden and Russian. It would not be until 1920 …
