Estonia - Submarine base, swings and bogs
Apr. 12th, 2017 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaIn Estonia, I visited a waterfall, walked around manor houses and was told stories about ghosts and red-haired women who bite men.
I wandered around an abandoned submarine base, where they used to do degaussing, and stared up at the graffiti and crumbling concrete.
I tried swinging on a large traditional Estonian wooden village swing, standing up. They are often used for celebrations and many villages have them. I was told about kiiking, which is a sport, where you have to try to get the swing to go over the top of the bars, and they compete over who can do this with a swing with the longest swing arms.
I learnt about vodka socks.
I ate strawberry soup at a tavern, before wandering through the bogs, the mysterious bogs, in Lahemaa National Park.
Submarine base:
Swing:
I wandered around an abandoned submarine base, where they used to do degaussing, and stared up at the graffiti and crumbling concrete.
I tried swinging on a large traditional Estonian wooden village swing, standing up. They are often used for celebrations and many villages have them. I was told about kiiking, which is a sport, where you have to try to get the swing to go over the top of the bars, and they compete over who can do this with a swing with the longest swing arms.
I learnt about vodka socks.
I ate strawberry soup at a tavern, before wandering through the bogs, the mysterious bogs, in Lahemaa National Park.
Submarine base:
Swing: