NordenBladet – In September we went to Saaremaa after a hundred years. The children go to Saaremaa often, but I hadn’t been there for like five-six years, if not more. Allan had to go check the servers in Saaremaa airport and we decided that I and Ivanka will join him on his trip to Saaremaa and we will remain there for a longer time.
On Friday morning (September 8th) we started off from home so that by 10 o’clock we arrived in Kuressaare. I went shopping with Ivanka (we shopped until lunch in Auri center and the shops in the city center). A positive surprise was Saaremaa Department store’s food world, it had been made really stylish and beautiful. At lunchtime we went to the hotel. We had booked the Grand Rose SPA hotel (142 euros for three people), which also included the SPA visit and breakfast. So the three of us spent the evening indulging in the SPA and the next day we shortly visited the Saaremaa Food festival. By lunchtime we were already on the barge from Kuivastu to Virtsu and in the afternoon we were back home.
Ah yes… PS! The water samples taken from Kuressaare water supply system still show contamination with E. coli and other coli-like bacteria and thus the Estonian Health Board does not recommend using tap water for drinking before boiling it. Though we only drank bottled water, we still used tap water in the hotel to brush our teeth. For quite some time I was afraid that maybe we caught the coli bacteria but since now it’s already been a while since our Saaremaa trip it seems as if we are safe.
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