Baltic Visitor

Earlier in 2007 the Estonian Ministry for Economy and Communications said that Ryanair would be flying to their nation’s capital by the autumn. There’s still no sign of the aggressive price-cutting carrier in Tallinn, but the Baltic Times reports that representatives of the ministry held talks with the airline on 12 October, and there are […]

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An article in the Baltic Times claims, with good reason given the growth in visitor numbers, that the three Baltic countries are ‘losing their novelty appeal for international travelers’. This is not meant in a negative sense. Baltic travel expert Neil Taylor, author of several guidebooks including the excellent Tallinn Mini City Guide for Bradt, […]

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This afternoon the author of Bonjour l’Estonie posted an article on the British visitors brought to Estonia by cheap flights since October 2003. It starts off as mildly comical (indirectly comparing the British invasion to the 14th century arrival of the Teutonic Order), moves through being depressingly accurate (with its portrait of drunken Brits abroad) […]

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