NordenBladet – Yesterday was Purim* holiday and thus in our home a small celebration. I listened to Purim Dance Mix, sipped up two bottles of champagne, sent some text messages (which most certainly needn’t have been sent, because I have the habit of starting to tell how things are done as soon as I’ve had the booze :D) and then I attended an auction, from where I got an additional beautiful piece to my currently already quite extensive collection of paintings. The evening was chill! In the night I slept like a baby, until this morning at eight Ivanka Shoshana patted me on the shoulder and reminded me that it was time for me to start preparing oatmeal porridge for her. I also made omelette (ahh, those proper eggs from the chickens and geese that have been freely running around in the countryside, those are already something!) and served it with avocado, beet, pickled cucumber and cottage cheese.

Then – outside I went. Today I went walking even several times. The weather was wonderful, the sun was shining and there was already a hint of spring in the air. I am so keen on seeing the weather get even a bit warmer so that the ice coating would melt from the roads, then I will launch my habitual walking race once again. I have been looking forward to doing that. By this evening I had covered 5 km. As a start, this is quite good, but the goal is to reach again the daily 2-3 hours of outside activities, and to walk 10-15 km. Being physically active gives me a good feeling and it is definitely good for the body weight (which is especially useful for those of us who love to bake something good every day… haha). Today me and Ivanka baked, based on the recipe I created, some really yummy, mellow, and juicy cinnamon rolls. Really yummy! You’ll find the recipe below, after the gallery!

Recipe: Juicy cinnamon rolls with cloudberry yoghurt filling

You will need:
500g puff pastry (Eesti Pagar)
200g cloudberry full milk yoghurt (Alma)
100g Võideks butter (Tere)
4 spoonfuls wheat flour (Veski Mati)
4 spoonfuls sugar
vanilla sugar, cinnamon

How to prepare:
Melt the puff pastry and then roll it somewhat slimmer into a rectangular plate shape. Melt the butter and while stirring, add to it flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, and cinnamon (plenty of cinnamon!) and spread the result on the dough. As the next layer, spread on the dough also the yoghurt, then roll up the dough and cut it into 2 cm long units. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius until the rolls are golden brown.

Bon Appetit!
Hugs!

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*Purim is a Jewish holiday, celebrated on 14th of Adar.

Purim in a nutshell:

Megillah or Esther’s Book tells a story of how two people put into practice the gifts God had given them – Esther her beauty and Mordechai his wisdom – for the sake of saving the people of God. When the wicked ruler Haman persuaded King Ahasuerus of Persia to destroy the Jews, then Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai came out with a clever plan how to make the plot fail. The conspiracy was overthrown and Haman was hanged. This story is being read/told every time at Purim. In the synagogues, all of Esther’s Book is read on Purin evening and on Purim day. According to Jewish law and traditions, Purim is the time for celebrations. It is even the only day during the year when people are supposed to drink alcohol, in order to wipe away the memory of the obnoxious Haman. Every time when megillah (Esther’s scroll book) is being read and the name Haman is said, the children will rattle the ratchet to make noise, and grown-ups will bang their feet on the floor. Children wear carnival costumes, carnival masks are being worn, and there is the tradition to give friends, the sick and the poor gifts of food and sweets. A part of the celebrations is food: it is a tradition to eat triangular pies called the Hamantashen.

Read more:
* Three prayers to be said before reading the megillah (Esther’s Book).
* Shoshanat Yaakov “The rose of Jacob” (the Purim hymn)
* Recipe of the Purim cookies (Hamantashen)
* Purim videos for children

Do read also my previous blog posts (all posts are available in four languages – Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and English!)

NordenBladet – This year everything has been different (corona pandemic restrictions and many twists in my own personal life). Even Estonian Independence Day* was completely different. Although me just as well as many other fellow inhabitants of Estonia spent an indoorsy peaceful day. The table full of flowers – Valentine’s Day roses and tulips from February the 22nd (a secret landmark which will remain undisclosed at this point). Probably for the first time in my life I didn’t switch on the TV-set during the entire day, to watch the country’s anniversary celebrations (actually I am not even sure if those were held this year). Commonly I have been closely observing the president’s reception gala (along with the so-called “penguin parade”).

MORNING
The day began when the smartphone began beeping and all over many greetings, texts and memes arrived. Quite some time passed as I scrolled the phone to go through the messages and my friends’ social media posts. I noticed that there were very many delightful images and recipes of various dishes. For example I saved one recipe of a black bread cake which I definitely intend to try. Similarly, in my mind I “saved” the idea that next year I wish to gather and dry cornflower blossoms, since it is cool to garnish the dishes with those! After that I looked out of the window and gosh what a hideous-tailed fox was wandering in our garden. I googled for some time to find out what could be the problem of the fox – most likely it was either stress, rabies or scabies. A very bold fox that was indeed, circling the corners of our garden for at least an hour.

Breakfast was very simple and ordinary – coffee, tea, egg, sandwiches. I skipped the sprat sandwich or any other sprat dish, just didn’t feel like it.

LUNCHTIME

Dinner was jolly – I made potato pancakes (Latkes), with pearl onion, tomato, olives and sour cream, and for dessert I made oat cookies.

Recipe 1 – potato pancakes
You will need:
1 kg potatoes
2 large onions
50g flour
2 tablespoonfuls of baking powder
3 large eggs
Salt, pepper

Preparation:
Clean/peel and grate potatoes and onion (you may even choose to liquidize). Whip the eggs, stir while pouring flour, add baking powder, salt and pepper. Pour egg mix on potato-onion mix and stir both together. With a spoon, place portions of pancakes on the frying pan and fry from both sides in hot oil until they are golden brown, 3-4 minutes each side. Serve with sour cream. The dish matches well with onion/pearl onion, olives, dill, green onion.

Recipe 2 – oat cookies
You will need:
500g whole grain oats
300g flour
200g sugar
200g Taluvõi butter
4 eggs
2 tablespoonfuls of vanilla sugar

Preparation:
Melt butter and mix with sugar until the mass is uniform. Add eggs, vanilla sugar, oats and flour. Bake at 180-200 degrees Celsius ca 15-20 minutes, until the cookies are golden brown on the outside.

EVENING
For dinner I made heart-shaped potatoes and minced meat-bolognese sauce, serving it with Letšo salad that I had made in late summer for winter time, and with the pumpkin that I got as a present. For dessert there was vanilla curd (Tere vanilla curd paste), with frozen berries (blueberries and raspberries) and with warm fresh butter cookie.

Recipe 3 – butter cookies

You will need:
250g Taluvõi butter
80-100g sugar
250-300g wheat flour
4 tablespoonfuls of vanilla sugar
(you may choose to add 1 egg, this time I did without an egg)

Preparation:
Melt the butter and stir with sugar, vanilla sugar, flour. Should you desire a harder, cookie-shaped cookie, then add the egg (without the egg the result will collapse out of concrete shape as can be seen on the following picture. That would be good when you head for crushing the cookie to get tiny pieces for coating.

It was EXTRAORDINARILY slippery outside, thus no more outdoorsy action except for fetching the newspapers. The day was spent indoors and in a cozy manner – cooking, dining and reading books. Oh how good it feels to just lay down to read! I read through J.K. Rowling’s children’s book “Ickabog” and browsed, but now reading MJ DeMarco’s “The Millionaire Fastlane“. We talked a lot, and watched a movie (evenings we are re-watching via YouTube the “Magnificent Century” 😀 iccc). Ivanka Shoshana was in Mõigu with her grandma and grandpa and posted to me via WhatsApp two of her lovely drawings – the Sipsik and the Snow White.

Hugs!

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* Estonian Republic’s anniversary is February 24th, which marks the declaration of the Estonain Republic back in the year 1918, on February 24th. On that day in Tallinn the “Manifesto to all peoples of Estonia” was launched, announcing the country to be an independent and democratic Estonian Republic. February 24th is a national holiday in Estonia and is our independence day. Independence Day traditional events begin with festively hoisting the Estonian tricolor flag blue-black-white to the top of the tower Tall Hermann. During the post-Restoration of Independence time the tradition of the initial Independence Day parades by the Estonian Defense Forces has been revived, as they are common in many countries. Also there is the tradition that the Estonian president holds on our independence day a festive reception gala, where national decorations are awarded to people whose names have previously been published in the media.

Do read also my previous blog posts (all posts are available in four languages – Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and English!)

NordenBladet – The week has passed in a blink of an eye. The keywords are tasks at home, ceramics, and writing-illustrating the children’s book “His Highness Mouse the First”, also the daily publishing of articles, developing the collaboration networks for NordenBladet + OHMYGOSSIP websites.

On Friday I transported the first set of works (ceramics) to the Estonian National Museum (ERM), where with my daughters Estella Elisheva and Ivanka Shoshana we will display an exhibition “Our home’s witch kitchen”. For that purpose there are constant preparations ongoing. The plan is to launch the book “His Highness Mouse the First” by the time the exhibition opens. This challenge is accompanied by the goal of illustrating the entire book by myself, and not in any ordinary manner, but with an individual angle. First I will make acrylic paintings, and then scan them to the computer… This will then result in an illustrated book as well as a number of acrylic paintings. The upcoming art exhibition will be built on four pillars – ceramics, paintings, Elisheva & Shoshana handicraft cosmetics, and herbs.

For the first time I approached the ERM museum building from the backside, from the loading area for goods, more precisely from the side. I suddenly felt so important, as well as insignificant at the same time. The large entrance where one can transport goods with full size trucks, and me with my car, with a few boxes of handicrafts. This is really the proper comparison – handicraft is indeed exclusive, it takes time to prepare and it then never comes in large quantities. Nearly half of the ceramics works to be displayed at the exhibition have already been transported to the museum repository at the Estonian National Museum. On the spot we also held a meeting to discuss the exhibition hall plan – I outlined my current conception on the paper board (these lines of thought still need to be elaborated on, and then conveyed to the project partners in ERM at earliest convenience, so that the project staff members on their side can commence building up the carcass design for the exhibition (walls, partition ceiling, shelves, etc).

After the ERM project meeting we headed to my younger sister’s place, she lives in Tartu. In the afternoon we celebrated her birthday – dined, wined, discussed all aspects of the world as we know it, conversed about the exhibition, about real estate, about our future plans… Ivanka was busy drawing pictures all evening, and also enjoyed a hot bath. We actually agreed on a common bedtime at 23 pm already… We finalized the evening with a warm cup of camomile tea along with the film Legally Blonde, which we didn’t complete due to dear Sandman bringing an exceptionally early dream to everybody. Hahaa

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The week also accommodated lots of baking as always, but there is just not enough capacity to take pictures of everything. Here I will add pictures from two dinners.

Dinner version 1.
Oven meat (Rakvere grilled meat in blueberry marinade) with french fries or quinoa. Accompanied by fresh salad in sour cream dressing, grated beet and/or corn torch.

Dinner version 2. (today on Valentine’s Day)
I prepared in oven Bimar’s fried and quick-frozen potato pancakes and Vici breaded fish fingers, these I garnered with onion and sour cream dressing. For dessert there was raspberry-curd cake with vanilla sauce, almonds and coating.

Happy Valentine’s Day my dear friends and all readers of the blog!
Hugs!

NordenBladet – Good morning! What a magical snowy day! A gardener need not train extra, since the workout happens at home – in the wintertime the snow plowing will do the trick and in the summertime the same with lawn mowing. The only worry is that there is so much snow that the bulk may begin to do damage to the roof and will be a great burden to trees and bushes. We have already ordered from Bauhof the snow collector (27 EUR) with a telescope handle, for the purpose of cleaning the roof – we’ll find out if the tool is suitably functional for that task.

The weekend accommodated work as well as recreation.

The tasks that were completed:
✓ Many hours of snow ploughing
✓ cleaning and doing the laundry
✓ writing a book – I finished the second chapter of the children’s book “His Highness Mouse the First”! Yeeah!
✓ I also painted – for the above mentioned children’s book a dozen illustrations-paintings have now been completed (posting a few photos of the recent painting also here, see below)
✓ I also took some more pictures of the ceramics works handmade by myself for the upcoming exhibition in Estonian National Museum (ERM) (see images at Elisheva & Shoshana blog HERE).
✓ Articles and translations for NordenBladet + OHMYGOSSIP site pages

Fun:
✓ We bought the CashFlow game! It is even cooler than Monopoly! CashFlow is a social board game for grownups, creating skills for exiting the squirrel’s running wheel. It teaches you how to develop a strategy for investments, using real estate, entrepreneurship, stock and precious metal. Briefly, it builds knowledge for handling finances and accumulating wealth! The task of participating players is to exit the 9 to 5 working life and attain a regular passive income. One must accumulate property and remove duties and make money work! A delightful game! I made coffee with whipped cream, also some sandwiches, bought some eclairs, and we kept playing for several hours! We didn’t get to the end, but we surely continue on at some point.
✓ A visiting dinner (seafood evening with friends). That made an entire separate blog. It is available here: Helena-Reet: PHOTOBLOG + RECIPES! This is exactly what the dinner table looks when two top chefs invite you over for a Friday night!
✓ I visited my parents in Mõigu borough, and also my younger sister from the town of Tartu was visiting them, she had prepared rice-chicken salad and blueberry pie. By the way, my sister has a birthday today, the 8th of February! Congratulations! This weekend I am planning a journey to Tartu, a visit to ERM (Estonian National Museum) is pending, as well as birthday celebrations!. Already very much looking forward to it!

I shall now commence writing the third chapter for the children’s book “His Highness Mouse the First”. Then I’ll do one pile of laundry, collect my children from school, and then some more of the snow ploughing is awaiting!

Have a nice Monday and have a great week ahead!
Hugs!

NordenBladet – It crossed my mind that I could write one combined post about last week and the weekend, but it can’t be done. This blog section needs a post of its own! My blogs actually oftentimes depict food topics, food recipes, etc. but this current blog will be 100% a food blog! More precisely, I wish to share with you the positive impression that befell me this weekend.

My circle of friends has considerably changed during the past year and a delightful new friendship in the closer circle is a married couple who are both top chefs, and this Friday marked another milestone when they demonstrated their great gift in gastrology. Namely, I was invited to a cozy family-centered evening with seafood. I find seafood very tasty, the casual scattering of seafood dishes on the dinner table is already a positive vibe… yet once they are skillfully and magnificently prepared, and served along with the best of sauces so that it also pleases the eye, then it is a rough task to really describe the feeling you get and the taste experience when you’re around the table!

Lobster; delicious blue mussels with a special spicy herbal wine dressing; shrimps seasoned with coriander, dill and pepper; wonderful smoked eel; caviar with pleasant potato cutlets (Latkes), served with sour cream and onion; light seafood soup, etc. On top of all that the salads (potato-meat salad, pumpkin salad, cherry apples, etc.) for the guest that doesn’t have a fondness for seafood. My-oh-my!! So super!

I enclose a gallery about the Friday night dinner table and of my own recipes (blue mussels in white wine dressing and dark chocolate cake). Following my current recipe you will definitely attain a good result, but for the sake of giving it all a final touch as miraculous as with the experience I had, one would need to practice that a couple hundred times before:)) Besides, I am convinced that the chefs have their one hundred little tips and secrets that they apply in the process!

(my recipes are indicated after the gallery)

I prepare the blue mussels as follows.

You will need these ingredients:
1 kg blue mussels
5 spoonfuls of oil
4 cloves of garlic
1-2 fresh chilli
ca 10 plum tomatoes
250 ml white wine
1 lime
And for seasoning chopped parsley, coriander, pepper and salt.

How to prepare:
Pour oil to pot, add chopped garlic, plum tomatoes and chilli, season, and let slightly boil in low heat. Pour wine into the same pot, as well as the blue mussels (PS! only closed ones, because the ones that are open have already gone bad and you may end up with food poisoning!), then season and stir. Now boil until all shells have opened. Then once more check each mussel individually and now throw away those that did not open. These, too, are not edible! Then, serve the blue mussels that are open, and season (press lime, add parsley, coriander).

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Now for the dessert the dear hosts served chocolate volcanoes or chocolate fondants with home-made ice cream (all previous food as well was of course prepared by themselves!). Chocolate fondants are also known under the name “Molten chocolate cake” and “Chocolate lava cake”). The classic fondant contains dark chocolate, butter, sugar, wheat flour, and egg. Not quite sure what exactly was the full variety of ingredients in those fondants but they tasted sooo good… but here I add my own home-made strong chocolate fondant‘s recipe.

You will need:
250g dark chocolate
220g butter
230g sugar
110g wheat flour
6 large eggs
cocoa powder

Preparation is really simple:
The fondant is easy to prepare in ceramic containers that can take high temperatures (for example ramekin dishes), or they can also be prepared in ordinary multi-slot muffin plates. Cover the dish with butter and pour over with cocoa powder. Melt the dark chocolate together with butter. In a separate container, whip eggs with sugar, and then mix result with the melted butter and chocolate. Then whip all of the previous together once more. The whipped mixture done, add flour and stir carefully. Once the dough is done, pour it to the dishes prepared as previously mentioned, and cook at 180-200 degrees Celsius in the oven for ca 10 minutes. Make sure that the cake is not in the oven more than necessary! Given the portions in my dishes, this food will suffice for eight people. When serving, add powdered sugar, ice cream, and nothing can beat a cherry on top!

I have visited many good restaurants in my lifetime and I have been honoured to be able to participate in several food festivals and food presentations, but this level of GOOD FOOD DAY can be counted just on the fingers of the two hands that I have. This dinner was among those few! Many thanks to the chefs! Yummmm!!!

Have a great evening!

NordenBladet – What wonderful weather! The entire garden has been covered with snow and it just won’t stop snowing! In Tallinn, the snowfall was 25 cm in the night. Looking out of the window it seems like you entered a fairy tale! I woke today morning at 6.15 and prepared two different breakfasts (all of us have different cravings…haha). Then I took my children to school – Estella Elisheva (14) goes to Tallinn Jewish School and Ivanka Shoshana (12) goes to Tallinn Tondi School. After that I drove back to Saku and went to a beauty salon to have my eyelashes done.

VIDEO (My snowy garden)

Version one breakfast: herbal tea from herbs gathered by myself, chopped apples and two sandwiches.
Sandwich recipe: Leibur multigrain toast (warm crispy toast of course!), salty Voimix, Rakvere Viru ham, fresh cucumber, Eco mild lucerne sprouts, Figaro pitted black olives.

Version two breakfast (for me): Löfbergs lila French press coffee with Alma 2.5% milk and a delightful light salad.
Salad recipe: 1 pack (185g) Captain Grant chopped tuna fish in tomato sauce, 200g Coop classic cottage cheese, fresh cucumber and Eco mild lucerne sprouts. For the garnish fresh oregano and grapes!

A few words about the past week. On Wednesday I went with Ivanka Shoshana to Saku general practitioner’s practice to give blood. Since last summer she has been drinking lots of water and has gained nearly 8 kilos during the last four months. In September the school doctor mentioned that the child is anorectic, now they called and said that the weight gain is excessive. Indeed, there has been some feasting on sweets, especially in December, yet from autumn on, based on recommendation of the psychiatrist, she has been taking little quantities of Rispolept medicine (this is an antipsychotic drug). To my mind this medicine affects the body mass. Yet the drug itself has been of great help. Ivanka’s autism sometimes manifested in aggressive behaviour (for example once she kicked a random parked car with her foot while we were on our way back from a SPA, she sometimes used to be just like a moody teenager, fighting with the entire world) or also she might manifest a behavioural disorder (for example she kept repeating a sentence and had also tics – unwanted movements). Now, after having taken the medicine the problematic behaviour is largely under control. However, since the weight gain has been skyrocketing and the school doctor indicated the need, we booked a time and had an extra health check-up. Oh dear how scared I was – I was sure that she would struggle and not let the nurse take the blood, but the contrary. Ivanka was very well-behaved and calm. Now we also have the feedback about the results and her blood is very good, and physically she is as healthy as can be! 🙂

Last week, in relation to our upcoming exhibition in the Estonian National Museum (ERM) this summer, I also commenced photographing and packing mine as well as Ivanka Shoshana’s ceramics. Additionally, I started uploading posts of the photos from the ceramics collection on Elisheva & Shoshana website (See HERE). Huh, that’s a vast undertaking! Ceramic trays, plates, mugs, etc – there are so many of them. All day long I packed and packed and at one point the stove surface was all covered with exhibition stuff. Although there is a lot of time until the exhibition opens, I will begin transporting them to the ERM museum.

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On Thursday my mother took Ivanka Shoshana to her place for two days and I decided to immediately utilize the freedom that befell me. Friday morning I drove to Pärnu. During the day I browsed the city streets – more precisely I went to Port Artur department store (Hommiku street 2) where I bought Cat Artur’s cake (hahaa..) and I also stumbled on a nice inexpensive clothing store Pepco where I bought about 20 pairs of undergarment to my children. The rest of the time (all of Friday and also Saturday morning) I spent time in Viking SPA hotel (Sadama street 15) water park and saunas.

Now again I went to the town (and collected Ivanka from school) and prepared food. For the main course there were potatoes, minced meat and sourcream-onion sauce, and for dessert whipped cream with home-frozen berries and muesli. For a couple of hours I work, then I go and collect Estella, then again work a while, and then enjoy the evening!

Have a pleasant and productive beginning of the week! Hugs!

NordenBladet – Last week turned out to accommodate quite a lot of activities – many things that were accomplished at home, also the clay workshop with Ivanka Shoshana and myself, the writing of a children’s book “His Majesty Mouse the First” (Chapter One is now ready!), working with NordenBladet, and I also commenced designing the poster for the upcoming exhibition of mine in the Estonian National Museum ERM. Never have I really calculated the hours, since giving up my home assistants, that are spent on duties for home (cleaning, sorting clothes, doing laundry, heating the rooms, clearing the road from snow, making dinner, doing the dishes, driving my kids to school and hobby schools, etc.), but the average daily time would be minimally ca 3-5 hours… During summertime, when I also work in the garden and in the green house, and mow the lawn, then the hourse are even more than that.

On the one hand this is really nice – I do enjoy doing all of it by myself (the wife really is the heart and soul of the home), yet on the other hand from time to time I feel more like a “cleaning lady, chauffeur, shiftman” instead of a business woman, artist, and journalist. Media channels – the directing of six-language NordenBladet and the editing work in OHMYGOSSIP entertainment site branch offices – consume an extreme amount of time and commitment, the Elisheva & Shoshana brand requires further development, and painting, ceramics, and authoring the book each take time. Ohhhhh…yeaaaah… sometimes I do not understand how on Earth for so many years I have coped all the work load and all the stress. Sometimes it seems I’ve had enough, but oftentimes I enjoy the hasty life and the fact that there are a million things piling up. Still, indeed, to be completely honest, I have slowed down a lot on the work end of the day since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, and should the initial working schedule be restored (frequent travelling, fairs, seminars, meetings etc.) then it would make a lot of sense to use external assistance once more.

On Wednesday I underwent a minor operation (I have nickel allergy and the blouse zipper or something similar irritated the body so that it needed immediate intervention). Cosmetically it is nothing to worry anymore, but in any case I take anti-inflammatory medication Duracef twice a day and spread Braunovidon on the wound. My parents took Ivanka Shoshana to their place for the weekend and for a change I decided to visit Viljandi. Estella Elisheva was quite happy to be left home alone… hahaa.

After a peaceful, long and pleasant breakfast I started off through Rapla and Türi towards Viljandi. I like antiquity stores, I almost always find something to purchase (be it an old blacksmith-candlestick, cast iron bowl, tablecloth with handmade embroidery, old silverware or a carafe). I looove to buy all kind of old crap 😀  In Rapla there is a nice antiquity shop “Station’s old stuff” (address: Viljandi Road 89) and near Türi central square, from the roundabout towards Pärnu-Rakvere-Sõmeru Road there is a stylish second hand shop, it is something like the third building to Viljandi direction. Those being browsed, I made a minor coffee break in Türi town Earl Dracula pub, and then departed towards Viljandi. in Viljandi I like the shop Friend to Friend (Kauba street 4). From there I almost always find a cool wooden bowl or copper container. And in Viljandi I always feel obliged to visit the Amrita Cafe (Tallinn Road 29a), since they have the world’s best pizza! (on the pictures below on the left hand side you can see Türi Earl Dracula pub and on the right hand side Viljandi Amrita Cafe).

After that I parked the car and took the luggage to Grand Hotel Viljandi (EVE Hotel). Viljandi has free parking everywhere… so great, I had already forgotten it meanwhile! From the hotel room window there was a view to the park in front of Tartu street, and next to it there was the beautiful Lossi street. I like Viljandi old town, but curiously the local people do not think much of it. Inhabitants of Viljandi prefer the suburbs where there are fewer tourists and more convenient parking. Currently the situation in the old town is nothing to boast about – every other shop is closed 🙁 On Friday I had a couple of meetings in the city centre but the rest of the day was spare time and I used it just for walking and enjoying the surrondings. I also paid a visit to Post street where the sculptor Mati Karmin has erected the infamous statue of singer Jaak Joala, also I read Sakala newspaper and towards the evening got a bottle of champagne from a nearby Coop grocery store and then back in the hotel the life on Earth seemed in full bloom!

PS! While pleasantly spending time in Viljandi, also a nice new business idea emerged in my head, and it seemed just as nice the next morning!! I am a non-exhausting idea generator, just can’t help it! Heh… so it seems my to-do list will be stretched again?!! 🙂

Until next time!! Hugs!