BONJOUR L'ESTONIE

Brothel Watch

Two years ago, a women's rights organization claimed there were 60 to 100 brothels operating in Tallinn , the capital of the former Soviet Republic of Estonia. The police cracked down, and now it's believed there are fewer than half that number. You can't deny the progress, but if you look at the numbers for very long (old or new, take your pick), you start to see brothels everywhere. You start to think your neighbors are operating bordellos. Which mine actually happen to be.

I live in what is supposedly one of the more upscale residential suburbs. It's a small enough neighborhood that I know most foreign residents. At the beginning of last summer I heard English spoken on my neighbor's deck. They were just over the fence, through the hedge. The accents and voices changed daily, and it struck me as a very social family.

I wondered if I should I stick my head over the fence and introduce myself? "Hi, I'm Scott. Strange we haven't met before." But for some reason I didn't. Something held me back.

"It's probably a brothel," my wife said. "There's one up by the petrol station which they just closed. They're all over."

A week later, I ordered a taxi and got a driver who liked to talk. He was 70 years old, had been driving since Soviet time.

La Tour Eiffel de Hiiumaa - Estonie

The ‘Eiffel tower’ of Hiiumaa-31 meters high, was built by one man in 4 months only! This crazy tower situating in Reigi village, created by local man without architectural or engineering background have to be taken apart by the end of September, as it is considered dangerous both for visitors and for the creator and was built without building permit.

Russia ready to destroy island drifting in Estonian border lake

MOSCOW - Russian authorities plan to destroy an island drifting in Estonian waters over threat to a Russian hydroelectric plant on the Narva Reservoir, Estonian media reported on Tuesday.

A four-hectare tract of land that was part of Russian territory split off in June and floated over the border before getting stuck near high-voltage lines.

The island is currently 106 meters from the dam at the Russian hydroelectric plant.

An emergency plan to destroy the island will be put into effect if the island moves another 50 meters, the Delfi web site reported.

Both the Russian and Estonian sides are unable to predict the island's movements, but say it could damage nearby buildings.

People are banned from approaching closer to the dam than 500 meters.

There are more than a dozen of islands drifting on the Russian side of the Narva Reservoir, which is on the border between Russia and Estonia.

From the Google Eesti-English translator ... !

Väike õhtune vahepala sellest, kuidas äsja avatud Google translator eesti keelest inglise keelde tõlgib :

Hiir hüppas, kass kargas, vanakaru lõi trummi = Jumping mouse, the cat jumped, vanakaru created the drum'n'bass

Julge hundi rind on rasvane = Brave in front of the wolf is a high-fat

Aias sadas saia = Rainfall in the garden of pastry

Tee tööd siis tuleb ka armastus = The job must be in love

Parem pool muna peos kui varblane katusel = Right hand side of the egg when the roof of sparrow

Vara tööle, hilja voodi nõnda rikkus majja toodi = Assets to work, late to bed in the house so violated

Hirmul on suured silmad =  Frightened eyes are large

Kes püüab kõigest väest, saab üle igast mäest = Who is going all out trying to, can be transferred from each hill

Estonian women make much better wives than American women

An American woman has several fundamental problems that will never go away and that will get much worse a few years after she is married :

1. Her inherent anti-male bias and pre-occupation with fairness that was drilled into her at high school, college, and through the media. Her constant confrontations and trying to prove herself and to make a point.
2. Her self-centeredness, her ridiculously high expectations, her sense of entitlement, her high-maintenance, superficial, and stuck up attitude, her snootiness and her sense of superiority. This "princess" syndrome means that she will always think that she is better than you, and that she deserves and she is entitled to whatever she wants from you.
3. Her general mental instability and psychological disorders.
4. Her using sex as a weapon and reward to get things.

Estonian women generally don't have any of these problems. Marrying an American woman simply does not make sense. The ONLY reason men stay with American women is because they did not have enough exposure to Estonian women. Any man who spent a few months in Estonia or Eastern Europe will not even look at American women again.

Estonian bear caught trying to enter Russia

TALLINN - A brown bear was caught by an Estonian environmental inspector in the Narva River swimming toward the Russian border, the Eesti Paevaleht daily reported on Friday.

The bear had swum almost 100 meters until it was noticed by the official, who was on a barge. Frightened by the barge horn, the bear swam back to Estonia.

However, when the barge moved away, the bear reentered Russian territory, swimming to Ivangorod, some 160 kilometers west of Russia's St. Petersburg, before later swimming back to Estonia.

Mystic poster from partytown Tallinn

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Lenna ahead in the top boobs competition, ahead of Nicole Scherzinger

Lenna Kuurmaa (born September 26, 1985 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian musician, singer, songwriter, and a member of the girl group Vanilla Ninja. Born to Rain and Anne Kuurmaa, she has one brother, Raido, who is 3 years older.

At the young age Lenna joined the ETV girls choir and had a great interest in, and studied music. At this time Lenna was learning to play the violin.

Lenna's hobbies are music and sport, she likes soccer (football), enjoys dancing, listening to music and of course she likes to sing. Preferring R'n'B, Hip-Hop and Punk, she was influenced by the 80’s music era and likes bands Depeche Mode, The Rasmus and P!nk.

Lenna Kuurmaa grow up in Tallinn and there she was educated and attended the same secondary school with Maarja Kivi.

After leaving school Lenna with her class mate Maarja Kivi and 2 other Estonian girls of similar age Piret Järvis and Katrin Siska, met a producer in Tallinn and together formed the band Vanilla Ninja. Lenna played guitar but also developed into the lead singer and the band had great success across Europe and in Japan. The band were also contestants in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Later Lenna expanded into writing songs for the band, with one of her songs entered for the Estonian 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, titled ‘Birds Of Peace’. However the band were unsucessful and the entry not chosen.

Lenna Kuurmaa lives in Tallinn the capital of Estonia. She is Fluent in Estonian, German, and English, and Lenna cooks and likes Chinese food. Lenna is unmarried, has a dog (labrador) named Ninja. She has green eyes, has a pierced tongue and has recently had a controversial tattoo to her left leg. Lenna’s natural hair is fair - light brown, but she styles it blond or black.

Francais : si vous ne voulez pas etre dans la merde ! Reflechissez 2 fois ...

Deep in the merde !

A French citizen was rescued from a Vilnius apartment on Oct. 16 where he had been handcuffed to a radiator for several days after being robbed by a woman he met on the Internet.

According initial reports, the French national met the Lithuanian woman online and came to Vilnius for the weekend. The girl invited him into an apartment, where she and a friend deprived him of his cash and credit cards, and then handcuffed him to the apartment’s radiator.

On the morning of Oct. 16, the Frenchman tore the radiator off and started yelling for help from the window. When water starting to pour from the broken pipe, neighbors thought the commotion was a fire and called the fire brigade, who rescued the captive.

Tallinn stag weekends - a stag party guide to Tallinn, Estonia's Capital

Stag weekends in Tallinn :

The city centre of Tallinn is like a chocolate box picture, it is simply stunning. Its old city centre is walled, and within the walls almost all the building are original, with spires and quaint churches everywhere. Go up to the castle for a great view.

For a stag party Tallinn is great, as most of the bars are on a few streets around the city of the walled heart of the city, so you can easily walk from one to another. There are a couple of bars almost directly opposite on another is the centre called Nimega (Bar with a name) and Nimeta (bar with no name !) -

Nimega is a great place to go for pre clubs drink and it has its own little dance floor at the back. Ask for a guy called Adam, behind the bar and he will be able to give you some good advise on places to go to and places to avoid. Nightclub wise I would recommend Venus and Hollywood which are in the city centre and Parlament which is a taxi ride away. On lap dancing clubs I would recommend X Club - it not cheap but then again neither are the other, and this one is very good !

Accommodation wise we stayed in a hostel, on my first trip we stayed in one terrible hostel on the first night (and it really was terrible), and then moved to a pretty good hostel called Old town hostel. The second time I went we stayed in a hotel about 3 miles from the city centre and I really would not recommend it to be honest - its a real pain in the neck having to get taxi's into the city centre - a word on taxis here, everywhere we went in eastern Europe we got completely ripped of by them, they all have convenient buttons under the dashboard they press to rig their meters and I am not joking when I say we paid sometimes 8 times the price for exactly the same ride, by different firms !!

Also never, ever ask a taxi driver for recommendations for .......

Prostitute accused of murdering elderly husband

A greedy prostitute murdered her elderly husband after becoming dissatisfied that he could no longer fund her lavish lifestyle, including a £800 for a breast op, a court heard today.

Pretty blonde Tatjana Edwards was working at a massage parlour when she first met 72 year old marketing consultant Gwyn Edwards who fell in love and began lavishing gifts on her.

Within months the unscrupulous 27 year old had married Mr Edwards's, moved into his Chestey home in the mistaken belief that was wealthy, and began fleecing him.

The couple took regular holidays to the Mediterranean and the Baltic and she even spent more than £1,200 on hairdressers in just six months. She regularly sent cash back to her family in Estonia.

In letters found on her computer written in both Russian and English she complained of his miserliness, detailing the lack of flowers at the wedding, his failed attempts to buy two houses, a luxury bed and his inability to pay for the breast operation.

When the money finally dried up Tatjana stabbed Mr Edwards in the stomach killing him in June last year, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Wendy Joseph QC told the court : "She .......

Oooohh ... George !

Bush's funny pictures ....

What many foreigners do for little money in Tallinn

* Just 50 miles across the Gulf of Finland from Helsinki, Tallinn gets a whopping injection of cash and conviviality from the more than half-million Finns who head across every year -- frequently on multiple daily ''booze cruises'' -- to exploit Tallinn's significantly cheaper alcohol.

Pockets filled with kroons (about 13 of them equal a dollar), motivated pleasure-seekers (not Finns only) can smoke Cuban cigars at La Casa del Habano, watch rugby over a pint at Scotland Yard, sip cocktails in the Scandi-chic interiors of R.I.F.F., boogie at the huge Club Hollywood or elite Club Prive, watch women lose their clothes at the Soho strip club, and then lose their own shirts at Bally's Casino.

Penguins are getting to cold Tallinn !

Brits ... If you are short of money for your car insurance, you may try this ...

* Cullen Skink wrote :

Hi, just passed my driving test and wondered are there any insurers in Estonia who are cheaper than most for new drivers ?

Rumour has it :

Get an EasyJet or Eurolines one way ticket to Tallinn. Buy a car there (very cheap) - it will come with compulsory traffic cover (issued by The Estonian Traffic Insurance Foundation). Legal for use in UK as 3rd party only cover. Give your Tallinn Hotel as your address when bying the thing.
Take short holiday whilst there and see sights, etc.
Drive it back.
Use it for 11 months.
Ignore parking tickets (other than in tow-away zones), speed cameras, London Congestion Charges, etc.
Drive it back and exchange it..Use a different hotel.
Drive replacement car back to UK.

YMMV. Does this work ? So I have been told ...

A woman without her man is nothing

An English professor wrote the words "A woman without her man is nothing" on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

- All of the males in the class wrote : "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
- All the females in the class wrote : "A woman : without her, man is nothing."

Punctuation is everything.
What do you think ???????? !!!!!!!!
Best wishes,
Zara

Germany and Estonia in marzipan feud

LUBECK  (UPI) -- A bitter dispute has erupted between Germany and Estonia over bragging rights as to which is home to the sweet candy marzipan, a Christmas staple in Europe.

Major festivities are planned next year in Lubeck on the Baltic coast of Germany, where Germans claim European production began 200 years ago at the Niederegger marzipan works.

"We will be throwing open our factory to all our customers around the world," said Willi Meier, a Niederegger senior executive.

However, in Tallinn, Otto Kubo, the founder of Estonia's marzipan museum said his country shares the founding distinction and just might have its own celebration.

"The sweet manufacturer Kalev was established in 1806, so it is exactly as old as the Lubeck confectioner," Kubo told The Times of London.

Those unable to attend either festivity can find a recipe on the Internet for making marzipan at marzipancakes.com.