It's not always sunny. Here's a picture of Sarah in her wet weather kit, note the sexy neoprene booties
We've had a really nice time in Estonia. Attractions include excellent cakes, proper cups of tea to go with the cakes, good roads, good drivers, cafes with tables outside and menus we can read and of course cakes.
We spent a few days resting in Tartu and went to Tallinn on the train. Both really interesting but the little villages along Lake Peipsi were the best. You can see from the map that we rode along the side of it for about 50 km - you can't see the other side which is in Russia. The villages are inhabited by Russian Old Believers. Back in the 17thC the top beard in the orthodox church decided to change some of the rules. The Old Believers weren't having any of it so were persecuted and settled by Lake Peipsi. It seems they were still persecuted and the Soviets repressed them too. In spite of all that they survived and live in beautiful wooden houses. They fish and smoke the fish. We bought what we thought was their product in the supermarket only to discover that it was made in China. Along the way we overtook 2 runners from Belgium. They hadn't run all the way from Brussels - only Tallinn a mere 175 kms!
Some towns have no restaurants so we have developed the 'room picnic' to a fine art. Here is a picture of the gorgeous collection of E numbers we ate our way through last night.
We keep saying this, but I think we will quiet for three or four days as we don't expect much in the way of internet caffs until we get to St Petersburg which, as you can see from this picture is now not too far. We visited Sillamae on the sign which was a top secret location for the extraction of Uranium from oil shale. Stalin had the town built from scratch in 1949 and laid it out in a Soviet version of a 19th C Baltic town complete with pastel stucco and a recorded Big Ben type chime on the town hall clock.
