Days: 31 (+5 in Tallinn) Km: 540 Paid accommodation: 22 nights Free accommodation: 8 nights Best food: Roast Moose Best drink: Vana Tallinn Favorite word: terviseks Favorite place: Hiiumaa Estonia in one word: Nature We were really new in this long hiking thing when we started on May 1, but we learned a lot: How… Continue Reading
With relaxed muscles and recovered energy, we started our next day of hiking. And a great start it was: The sun was shining bright and we could follow the Pärnu river on a pleasant bicycle path for the first kilometers. After a huge bridge, we crossed the last neighborhoods of Pärnu. The houses became smaller… Continue Reading
The long way to… could be the title of many of our posts. As we try to stay as close to the coastline and as far away from the main roads as possible, we often walk a much longer distance from A to B than the direct way. This was true for the week in… Continue Reading
What difference a day makes! We woke up on day 14 to beautiful sunshine and blue sky outside and we were ready to start our island hopping tour. There is very little information available about the route of the E9 hiking trail through Estonia. That left us room to plan our own route along the… Continue Reading
Day 11 and we were on our way to Haapsalu. After more than a week in the countryside, the thought of arriving in a bigger town had created big expectations: Nice cafés, good restaurants, supermarkets, some entertainment, some relaxation. We were in such a hurry to arrive there, we even took the train line. No,… Continue Reading
On day 8, we started hiking on a very pleasant path in the middle of the forest. After a while, the vegetation lining the path on the left and right changed from pine trees to birch trees to shrubs. The ground alongside and on the path became increasingly wet – we were in the middle… Continue Reading
With new energies from a rich breakfast and our clothes clean and dry, we started day 4 of our hike. This time, we could walk on the beach for almost 8 km, sun shining all the time. As the stretch of sand grew more and more narrow and the rocks to our left started to… Continue Reading
We are on our way! We know that many of you thought about us on our first hiking day and we really enjoyed the kind messages we received. As you are certainly very curious about how the first days went, we will advance this post before the one about Tallinn. It deserves a post of… Continue Reading
Crossing the Gulf of Finland separating Helsinki and Tallinn, one leaves behind the very Western, design-oriented and modern capital of Finland and reaches the Estonian capital, with an Eastern past and a Western future, celebrating the Middle Ages as well as its youth’s creativity. As many others, we did this passage onboard a nine-deck cruise… Continue Reading
12 crossed countries
319 hiking days
89 resting days
Updated on 11/06/2016 – ARRIVED IN LISBON!