Something that I still found interesting about Europe is the small size of most of their countries, travelling from Tartu (South) to Toila (North east) takes a little more than one hour, that means that you can have really nice weekends travelling to different places near from your home, besides there are many lakes, rivers, historic places and parks to visit.
Our first stop was on Lake Peipsi, It’s the third biggest lake in Europe and it’s shared between Russia and Estonia but most of it is in Estonia’s side. The lake, as everything in Europe :P, is sooooooooooo flat that if you want to swim you must walk inside about 200 meters and probably the water will reach your knees only, but the view is amazing you will think that you are watching the sea instead of a lake.
There is small part of the lake in which the two countries are about 500 from each other and literally you can swim to Russia from there.
After this we went to a famous fish marketplace and bought two Latikas (Smoked fish) and later we bought the rest of the Lunch (Salads, bread, ketchup, sausages, juice, etc) at a store in the middle of nowhere.
Our second stop was Toila and the biggest attraction was the cold Baltic Sea. There is a nice cascade on a cliff near the sea and a view point with some scary stairs, the place remind me the Angel’s fall but of course ten times smaller, still was a great place to take pictures.
We went a few kilometers further to a nice beach and had the first part of the lunch with our hands, we brought forks but that fish had so many bones that it was easier not to use the forks. Of course we stunk all the way back.
The Baltic Sea is also flat and cold, in summer it is possible to swim there but this time I just washed my hands there. On summer the color of the sea is kind of brown but right now it’s dark blue.
Our final stop was in Kaiu Järve (Lake Kaiu) and there Manu a Kadri were waiting for us almost two hours :s, we had a nice fire right next to a lake and had the rest of the lunch-dinner.
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