Not-Tallinn city blog: Into South Estonia
Surprisingly fast the city (to be fair remarkably green in summer) gives way to silver birch and pine forest. Slim trunk dark walls line either side the road, for long periods the world beyond the […]
Articles by Simon Barker
No truth’s a panacea
Just sometimes the big questions turn out not to be all that important. One such issue to get my goat lately is the battle between absolutists and relativists, each a pejorative from the opposite perspective […]
Tallinn, Estonia – a swift 100 years by way of introduction
Tallinn, capital city, population 392,331. Language, Estonian and Russian. Independence stated 24th February, 1918. Handed back, by pseudo-authoritarian Konstantin Päts in a shady May protection pact, 1940. The red bear swallowed the country whole by June. […]