For our new year’s celebrations, Kristi and I (still being in Estonia from Christmas) went round to some friends, laden with booze. We kicked things off with making various cocktails and eating the food put out by our host.
A few drinks later, and out came the board games. Several more drinks later and it […]

Estonians love their saunas. If they have the space, most Estonians will have a sauna installed in their home, and its not uncommon to be invited to join them in the sauna when visiting friends or family. This is exactly what happened when Kristi and I visited a couple of her old friends during our […]

This year I spent the first, and probably not the last, Christmas in my wife-to-be’s home country of Estonia. Not the first Christmas I’ve spent in another country, but certainly the first I’ve spent with a family from a country other than my own.
I found it quite interesting how the traditions vary from that which […]

Because one of the questions a married couple will be asked for the rest of your happily married life is: How did you get engaged? I had spent some time thinking of the ideal way to propose, and eventually came up with a cunning plan.
The previous night I had mentioned to Kristi that we […]

The second day aboard the EasyCruise ship, and we were awoken to the Captain informing everyone the ship was passing by some interesting rock formations. I quickly got washed and dressed leaving Kristi to finish getting ready while I went out on deck to investigate.

Our first night at sea was not quite as peaceful as I would have hoped. The engines made quite a bit of noise as they started up in the early hours of the morning, and the rocking motion took a while to get use to. But in all I didn’t have too bad a night’s […]