FIRST TIME IN ESTONIA (Tallinn blew my mind!) 🇪🇪

First impressions of Tallinn, Estonia.
It was our first time in Estonia. We took a 2hr boat trip from Helsinki, Finland to Tallinn.
We didn't expect this city to be so beautiful!
The explored the Old Town with its medieval history, went to the KGB museum to learn more about the Soviet USSR occupation, and tried Estonian traditional food!
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Heading to "Little Finland" (or, leaving "Big Estonia"?)
1:46 - SAUNA IN OUR ACCOMMODATION!!
4:59 - First time in Tallinn: The Old Town is awesome!
6:47 - Is Estonia blood sausage better than Finland's?!?!
9:29 - Where Nordic meets Slavic, you get Baltic? (history of Estonia)
11:35 - KGB Museum (Estonia's Soviet/communist period)
13:32 - Denmark's flag comes from Estonia? Or, the sky in Estonia*
15:07 - ESTONIA HAS THE BEST BEER IN NORTHERN EUROPE??
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[@oheissk]

Estonian ussr wasn't established - Estonia was occupied by ussr. That is a huge difference and a vital question for Estonia until the very day, as we still have that agressive neighbour who talks about the need of occupying us again.

[@sage0001]

absol BS! Im from estonia tallinn, and nobody talks about it, only western propaganda cnn and BBC talking about that

[@thattoomas1217]

Never has our neighbour even mentioned occupying us. Bro sure loves spreading false information :)

[@oheissk]

@@thattoomas1217 , hey girl, you have never heard what ruzzian state propaganda says about Baltic states? Have you lived under a rock?

[@user-zy1vp2sw9c]

Actually, yes they have. Not Putin personally, but people connected to him in Russian main stream media are constantly saying things like "Do not even think we will stop at Ukraine" What do you think that means? Occupying some other neighbour? Maybe Norway (who also, by the way, has nuclear weapons)? Or China?@@thattoomas1217

[@UncleRoma0]

@@thattoomas1217 The warriors agree with OHei. They probably speak Russian better than you do.

[@tiinar9943]

Great video and not to put a damper on it in any way but worth noting that the ‘Soviet Era’ was through forced occupation, not by choice. Estonians never wanted to be a part of the USSR and suffered tremendously throughout the occupation. More than 15% of the population was killed or deported and economic development on standstill for 50 years. Our language and culture aren’t similar to russian.

[@ConcordDown]

it wasn't forced. Sadly US and UK gave us up to USSR as part of the agreement to assist them in fight against Japan :/ but we did not wish to be part of the USSR that's true.

[@mjfan653]

Thats what forced means. The russians forced a soviet occupation on Estonia. Also Latvia, Lithuania. Also a de facto occupation of europe up to east germany. The forcing went quickly, because 1944 red army had a lot of power, while Estonian army was lost in the whirlwind of ww2. Estonians tried to arrange a new army, but even getting food was hard, getting guns was dificult, and finding young men who werent already forced into german/russian army was hard. So Estonia was forcefully occupied, firstly already in 1940, but again in 1941 and 1944.

[@KohaAlbert]

​@@ConcordDown yes, ussr crap was very much forced upon.

[@ConcordDown]

@@mjfan653 You probably forgot how it all went, Russia was pushing back Germany as they moved towards Berlin. And when the war was over England and United States signed a agreement that allowed Russia to keep those territories if they aided them in War against Japan. You make it sound like I said that we chose this, no. But it wasn't forced, we just had no say in it and I totally agree that it was occupation and I wish it didn't happen.

[@squirrelballs3387]

@@ConcordDown Having no say in it literally equals forced....

[@lkrnpk]

Thing is neither people in the Baltics have ever felt “Russian” in any way, much of our history is actually pretty much being the frontier or border region whete various powers and coslitions of the “West” have fought each other or Russians for that matter. Russia has always been for us either the place we go to war to, or they come with war to us. It has never been a place we see as our own or some attachment to

[@tiinar9943]

Yes, Estonians absolutely love a good sauna. Growing up in the countryside most houses had a sauna, that traditional in our culture. Same as our brothers in Finland 😊

[@2506754250675]

yes definitely. there is so awesome sauna cultures and saunas all around in estonia ❤ especially if i come roadtripping to estonia from finland i always have few nice sauna places to visit which are not that reachable by public transportation. and i dont know who ever has commented estonia being "little finland" we are brothers and sisters

[@user-ee1ci2rb9v]

I live in Estonia 😊

[@carleryk]

Fun fact - the earliest Viking artifacts were discovered in Estonia (Saaremaa island also known as Ösel), and some of the oldest too. Western and Northern Estonia used to be inhabited by Estonians and Swedes. That is until WWII when most Estonian Swedes left their homes in Estonia and fled to Sweden. Some families remained on islands and parts of Western Estonia to this day.

[@Howdyx-ui7uk]

Yeah, Finland originates from Estonia

[@rongike]

there were also a lot of Germans for centuries but most of them fled with the Nazis.

[@KohaAlbert]

@@Howdyx-ui7uk In part, not solely. There were also Finnic migration from the east.

[@KohaAlbert]

@@rongike yes, but also no. Baltic-Germans were transferred to "fatherland” (in reality mostly to western Poland, to "freshly vacant" farmsteads and apartments) at the beginning of the war rather than at the end of it - this wasn't particularly voluntary migration either. Baltic-Germans had their own German-dialect, based on hochdeutch, and with influences from low-German (which had been widely spoken here prior 18th century) along with from local languages. Similarly, Estonian-Swedes spoke various dialects of Estonian-Swedish (arguably the Rünø dialect could have been considered a language of its own all together). - Aibofolke's earlier presence remained to echo in Estonian dialects which neighbored them (vocabulary, phonology, etc). Markers from their longtime presence are still preserved in Estonian language itself (personally I'm unaware of another non-Germanic language which utilizes V2 wordorder for example). Contacts reach back to proto-Germanic and Proto-Finnic.

[@Tomignostics]

Hotel Viru, "one part cement and one part microphones, by KGB"

[@adidzis]

about 50/50

[@Gaming4Justice]

Estonian history is very complex and can't be told generally. For example almost the entire time Estonia was in the Russian Empire, it was actually ruled by Germans that were there since the crusades. That is why you had sauerkraut with bloodsausage as sauerkraut is a German dish that became popular with locals. German culture has had overwhelmingly biggest effect on Estonia. Next is the North Germanics as that connection has been there for thousands of years. And in current times I think American is replacing whatever we have left from Russian culture. As for sauna, I don't think I ever tire of repeating that saunas are not Finnish but Finnic in origin. The idea is thousands of years old. Estonia and Finland with some remnant groups in Russia are part of the Finno-Ugric group.

[@Kivikesku]

As a Finn, I'd say that Estonia indeed produces the best beer in Northern Europe. Also, if you come back to Finland, you should try an ancient beer variety called sahti. Sahti is the oldest type of beer still in production. It can't be exported, because it gets spoiled within a week, and it gets spoiled even before that, if stored in a warm temperature, or shaken.

[@user-wv1zk9me7w]

I'm not sure he's ready for the Sahti yet.

[@argopaid2098]

Olde Hansa seves beer that has been produced from the same recepie as they had in midevel days

[@ConcordDown]

A. Le Coq or Saku? :D

[@tonikaihola5408]

Estonia is beautiful. Hello from Finland 🎉

[@Sven...]

❤❤🤘✌️

[@ville82]

Estonia is awesome country and been travelling in there quite a bit. Tartu in southern Estonia is awesome city and also currently the cultural capital of Europe and definitely worth a visit.

[@hanskukk8751]

Mad respect for taking shoes of when going indoors in estonia

[@eugenem.762]

I was in Tallinn once. When I was a soldier in soviet army. My unit was located near estonian border. Even then it was like in other country, like Europe. And I like it very much.

[@SiiriRebane]

interesting. were you in official border guard army unit? green 'pagons' (shoulder marks).

[@Zarniwooper]

Now you know why we Finns like to travel to Estonia 🍺

[@user-zy1vp2sw9c]

No. Why?

[@lvlbrkr_editz]

@@user-zy1vp2sw9c Beer/Alcohol, i Think it was supposed to be cheaper here?

[@user-zy1vp2sw9c]

Oh, ok. I thought it was because of the amazing Tallinn Old Town and stuff like that. ha ha. Looking at how the Finns are behaving over here, I wasn"t really thinking anything like that. But the one thing I cannot understand is that are you guys so poor that you take all the trouble to come here so that you can have a couple of beers cheaper and save a few euros?@@lvlbrkr_editz

[@hhelina]

saun is inherent part of also estonian culture. for thousands of years all estonians were born in one (unheated ofc hehe). everything important in person's life happened in the sauna building - being born, being prepared for one's wedding and later also funeral.

[@TheEyeTrax1]

If you happen to make a supermarket tour here, then you gotta try a dairy dessert called "kohuke", curd/cottage cheese snack that looks like a candy bar found in the fridge aisle. Very popular dessert in the Baltics and some other Eastern European countries.

[@andruspurje7940]

At this point, we cannot fail to note that during the Soviet era in Estonia, most of the orders from Moscow were not fulfilled or their fulfillment was marked. At the same time, things were done the way they used to be, their language, culture and traditions were preserved. Even during the Soviet era, Tallinn was not like other Soviet cities, gray and boring, even from Petersburg, that is Leningrad at that time, people traveled to Estonia as if they were "abroad". If we had not been so stubborn and principled, we would probably have become Russia, like most of the "republics" of the USSR. We did very well...

[@Pokerit]

Finland misses you two already.

[@jannekoskinen7269]

Only if they learn how to eat Karelian pasty even some how decent way :)

[@parsaukko3411]

I don't.

[@brasni1]

Your first Estonian Saku beer, canned, you got already in Tampere on the 1. of May. I saw you walking with it in your hand in the video. It was fun for me to see the Viru Hotel. It is built by a Finnish construction company in the early 1970, and my Finnish Godfather was a foreman and a construction engineer for the build. He told us already then about the whole floor reserved for espionage and KGB. He lived some years in Tallin during the building process. He said that it was a nightmare. The corruption and theft of all the building materials took his health and nerves.

[@AllHailMafakas]

Just as a fun fact of the day for you. The theft, gang wars and everything related to those ended with the 90s.

[@robertparn8835]

The last part about corruption- it was totally normal all over Soviet Union. I am Estonian in my 30s and I have heard so many crazy stories about cronyism, bribery and theft (from state and your employer) from my parents and grandparents. It’s one of many reasons why it was so hard for us to get rid of this poisonous mindset in the 90s and why many post communist countries are still so messed up. Look at Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and so on. I think only Baltics have made big progress, but we are still much more corrupt than Nordics and Western Europe.

[@MichaelChiklisCares]

Saku beer is the worst beer ever, tastes like water or piss.

[@raunce91]

Every family knows someone who's built their whole house from materials they've stolen from work from that period.

[@scanpolar]

During the communist era , the Estonian watched secretly Finnish TV .

[@TheTerkzzz]

Only near the capital. It wasn't available everywhere..

[@Ivarls]

Not only in the capital. I was growing up with Muppet Show, Happy Days, Dallas, Shogun, Battlestar Calactica, Knight Rider, Dempsey and Makepeace, Bergerac etc etc and I'm from little town in Northern Estonia. And, it wasn't secret, everyone had antennaes and Pal-blocks installed to the Secam TV-s. It was more like it was impossible for CCCP to jam the signal without spoiling it in Finland too.

[@postoffice146]

@@TheTerkzzz TV electromagnetic waves didn't make a difference between the capital and rural area, from Finland they reached across the sea the northern parts of Estonia.

[@ruisiauto]

Whoever was listening to OKSID! Thumbs UP!

[@xwiirastusx]

There's no such thing as "communist era", there's Soviet occupation of Estonia, like it or not.

[@Whatshisname346]

Love Estonia and the beer. I did the Tallinn marathon once and when we finished they gave us free Saku in the finishers tent. After a good 3 and a bit hours in 20+ celcius, feeling like chopped liver, it was properly the best beer I tasted in my life! Have a great time guys, try and make it to Tartu which is quite lovely and a bit less touristy.

[@user-zy1vp2sw9c]

Afetr torturing yourself with a marathon (cannot understand why people would do a thing like that :) anything will taste good and feel good. Just not running anymore would feel like the best thing you have ever experienced. I remember my camping trips with my dog Etna we would have where our summer house was. She would lead the way, decide the route and the length. And mostly she chose 9 or 10 house walks. Except that they were not walks because we moved in her running paste. And after that, whatever I ate, tasted like the best thing in the world. (She is in heaven now)

[@tikkanen92]

You two should go to the Põhjala Brewery & Tap Room. Really good place to drink and eat. Also do not forget to taste those dark beers.

[@jakobsyven8477]

Yes!!!

[@mitro72]

Glad you had time to visit Tallinn. Great city and wonderful people. We Finns who live in southern part of Finland tend to visit Tallinn few times a year. Only thing I must say that 53€ euro for 2 person lunch is just a tourist rip off...😢

[@AllHailMafakas]

For those meals, absolutely. You could buy it yourself and make everything for about 15€.

[@mitro72]

@@AllHailMafakas In Tallinn if you are not in old town you can have lunch for two and a beer for ~25€

[@user-zy1vp2sw9c]

Yes, it really weird to see so many people falling for tourist trap. Price is one thing. But they have absolutely no atmosphere, no soul, these places. Some cheap furniture thrown in the street, and not in the most interesting parts of the Old Town. The tourists tend to limit their visit to only a few streets of the Old Town. Estonian food? There is no such thing. I am too lazy right now to explain why but trust me. The real Estonian food, the one from the times before the Danes and the Germans and the Swedes and the Russians, yes, but trust me, you would not want to eat that. Seriously. I really recommend Olde Hansa restaurant. You will get the vibe of mediaeval Tallinn in there with all your senses. It is also expensive, but it is worth it. They also have a street section if you must eat in the street. Personally I do not prefer being in the elements while eating, I like to be inside, also in summer. I am not connected to Olde Hansa in any way, I am not promoting them. I just really recommend it from my heart. It is not a cheap tourist trap while it works very ell for tourists. And the locals as well. I go there sometimes when I feel lik eI can afford it. Because it IS expensive

[@zappath1108]

Since you guys are hockey fans, you should head to Prague for the World Champs next week. It's a big party that closes the European hockey season.

[@JetLagWarriors]

We will be there! We have tickets for Canada - Finland

[@erroristmusic]

I'm from the island called Saaremaa, even for me it's fun to explore the old town of Tallinn every now and then, amazing place.

[@mistermusicmaker]

being from tallinn old town i have to say, i have a lot of fun going around kuressaare. love! ;)

[@konetampere]

Next time you're in Tallinn I highly recommend dropping into that Italian place you pass around 13:42 in the video, Controvento. Excellent pizza and pasta, and a staple of our (many) visits to this lovely city!

[@margustoo]

What you had on plate itself was quite traditional. We usually eat (usually during Christmas) bloodsausages with bacon, oven baked potatoes, sauerkraut with pig's fat and lingoberry jam. Quite traditionally there is usually also pork meat that you can eat with sausages or instead of sausages.

[@rbenjamin1429]

Estonia looks beautiful! And no cars in that central square 😁🤗 Pregnancy suits beautiful Ivana! 🤗 She looks so healthy and happy… 😄 Have a wonderful time, both of you! 🥰

[@user-zy1vp2sw9c]

No cars in the Old town actually. Well, there are a few idiots but in general very few cars and you need a permit to drive there. Also, people walking anywhere in the Old Town always have first right, also in the middle of the street

[@user-fp9wl3me5x]

Love you too! Gonna keep watching you, have a lovely time in Estonia! ❤

[@filipohman7277]

Awesome Greetings from Helsinki, Finland

[@sanmanchan]

Hehe, we def love sauna, it's a huge part of Estonian culture!

[@JetLagWarriors]

I am learning to love it too :) . I have been using the one in our apartment every day! Although, I am not ready for over 80c yet. Still around 65.

[@AllHailMafakas]

@@JetLagWarriors When I go into the sauna to check the temperature and it says 80 degrees, I tell everyone else that it's not ready yet. ((: You'll get used to it eventually.

[@reimoristla7145]

​@@JetLagWarriors well, in Sauna and Sauna there could be a HUGE diffference. Especially if its Sauna in apartment (electric heater). I highly reccommend you to try the wooden heated Sauna if you have any chance. :) a good Sauna is wooden heated and with good air circulating. Then you enjoy 110c very easily.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

It was the Finns, who gave the idea to build the Viru Hotel-or Finland's president at the time did, as in Urho Kekkonen, and it was the Finns who built the hotel: "Original Sokos Hotel Viru - check into the legend". Finnish tourists traveled to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, so Finns knew what it was like there: "What Did Soviets Think Of The Finnish Tourists in Leningrad?". The Soviets were tried to keep in the dark what it was like in the West: "DJahv Disco and Atomic War - Trailer". The geopolitics and Finland's trade with the Soviet Union led to all sort of things. E.g. the Soviets played with Finnish sticks in 72' Summit Series. From CBC Sports columnist Malcolm Kelly report after the Game 4: "So, here we are. Down 1-2-1 to a team that all wears helmets (everyone?), can't find enough matching gloves to be presentable and uses hockey sticks made in Finland, of all places (Does anyone know if Koho is a person, a place, or a thing?)."

[@MehKatsCloud]

Fun fact? I believe that one of the ways people think Tallinn may have got its name was that it was called Taani-linn, which translates to Danish city. Or at least that's what i remember

[@painterlegsboro3685]

Amazingly. The first beer i had in Tallinn was a Newcastle Brown

[@Davfel72]

Hell Hunt, the first pub in Tallinn, after the curtain fell..

[@grzegorzpiasek9076]

I've been to Tallinn dozens of times as a truck driver, but unfortunately never long enough to explore it. As far as I've seen, it's a very nice city, I hope to go there privately. I also had the opportunity to visit the Saku brewery, delivering "Aleksander" beer cans from Finland. I really like these countries. Greetings from Poland ❤😁

[@jl6332]

Aye, these meals where certainly priced for tourists D: . As an Estonian, I feel bit ashamed about that.

[@Deltroyer1963]

Your apartment could be an old attic with storage rooms.

[@ConcordDown]

I find food at Raekoja plats over priced a very average, I was little disappointed since many tourists eat there and might leave wrong impression of the food culture. We have such amazing restaurants everywhere :D

[@chaw294]

Loved watching all your marvellous videos....enjoyed travelling virtually. Thanks !! You both are excellent content creators. Hats off to you guys, Steve lvana. Safe travels and take good care.

[@jv-ns4gh]

This apartment looks defferent for Estonian aswell:D Actually most of the old town is original and just renovated not rebuilt.

[@Nollegee]

High quality videos keep em up! Greetings from Finland!

[@postoffice146]

It looks like an old attic transformed to an apartment. Ventilation in the sauna has to be built right in order to have airy and hot löyly experience, hope its a good one.

[@Metalbraut97]

Fun fact: oldest Viking grave was found in Estonia, on the island saarenaa

[@edizoni]

Põhjala Tap Room in Noblessner - MUST GO! 🍺 And a recomendations for KOT, chicken burger joint in the same area. founded by a Michelin-starred chef from Finland

[@KohaAlbert]

4:21 1. Yes, saunas are important for Estonians as well, and integral part of Estonian culture - it's nothing uncommon, that to wherever they go, they manage to bring saunas along... 2. I don't know the details, but this looks like an attic apartment, thus possibly latter converted into as such. For oddities, usually confinement inspires innovations (it's another matter, whether it's good or not).

[@timoterava7108]

I'm pretty sure that apartment is in a pre-soviet occupation building. My guess is it was built in 1930's.

[@tuomokorkka7919]

Or older. The thickness of the outer wall would support this, as would the shape of the apartment.

[@Manawald]

@@tuomokorkka7919 Exactly. Looks nothing a soviet-era staircase or apartment shape.

[@juhanivuorinen6981]

About the Viru Hotel. In fact the Finns built it.

[@xwiirastusx]

Built by Finns for the Finns, pretty much.

[@gmr.center]

@@xwiirastusx naah, built for the 1980 summer olympics to have a place to accommodate the Olympic tourists

[@xwiirastusx]

@@gmr.center No it wasn't. It was built between 1969 and 1971, long before it became known that Tallinn would be hosting the Olympic Regatta of 1980. Hotel Olümpia however was.

[@gmr.center]

@@xwiirastusx my bad, Hotel Olümpia was that hotel😁

[@isaaclee1634]

Spring is also the best time to visit Spain since you are about 4 hrs away by flight. Now it is beginning of summer (very early), temperature is puuuurfect but in June onwards can be too warm. Have a nice trip in Estonia

[@vuokkijaba2906]

Saku beer is really great

[@kaiz121]

Hi - about the mustard - Estonians mostly eat strong mustard - those soft ones came to market after the soviet era

[@saintjacques8137]

Thank you for your video. Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's obsessed with Medieval Estonian history I strongly recommend the relative video by Schwerpunkt. Keep up the good content

[@3p1c_gs49]

glad to hear you like here.. welcome!

[@martinkoitmae6655]

Glad that you enjoyed Estonia

[@alexandrupatru2892]

Wow! Kinda looks like Timișoara, but without the x10 53 EU price tag for a lunch. Sheldon's Flag Podcast section was very informative as well. Glad you finally found good beer in the Nord! Cheers!

[@Latvialainen]

Unfortunately hockey is not very popular in Estonia but otherwise a great country 😁 I hope you went to Latvia vs Norway game yesterday and saw the loudest fans in the world. 😊

[@MrManiacKid]

That's right. Estonia is more like a basketball country.

[@moonshineman5691]

If you have time and are interested in trying out more beers, there is a beer shop called Koht in Old Town. I think they have like +700 varieties in their shop and bar.

[@ooOraindropOoo]

Glad you enjoyed it here :)

[@user-ce9ni9ot3c]

Nice knowing you liked our country

[@salesmancom-ec9dv]

heyyy, really funny story. I saw you filming in Tallinn when you were talking about the soviet history :D

[@soundomab]

Sauna is really common thing in Estonia

[@andreskivimagi3904]

@6:07 you can see Viktor Levada, owner of Tallinn Levadia football club 🙂

[@eleanor_faltis]

Omg it is him! 😂😂😂

[@Tiax776]

Nice and sunny in Estonia. Finland is going to get more snow.

[@KertAllik]

There is so much more at Estonia to look :)

[@JuDasCS]

Its amazing how many tourist are coming to estonia it may not be a super huge beach or have any big pyramids or anything amazing but the town is one of my fav places.

[@TheBenjux]

Come to Latvia Too , ITS fun and have lot special places

[@antoniokasljevic]

LOL sweden 2% beer or whatever they're selling 😂😂

[@JohannesArm]

the red jam is suppose to go on the blood sausage, they are perfect together.

[@rasetheking1377]

Congratz to Canada for winning U18 icehockey world championship, I was there

[@wanhapatu]

+1 for pronouncing sauna the correct way.

[@Ivarls]

Sauna is saun in Estonian. :)

[@wanhapatu]

@@Ivarls Yeah you people like to drop letters from words 😁

[@wanhapatu]

@@Ivarls Yeah you people like to drop letters from words 😁

[@margustoo]

I do hope you guys visit Open Air museum and Kadriorg in next few days. Definitely quite a lot to see still :)

[@midakassi]

Um, at 6:06, while you were talking about the football pitch next to the old town, the gray haired gentleman is actually Viktor Levada, owner of a top Estonian football club FC Levadia. Just a funny coincidence.

[@Miponex]

4:03 Not sure about other Estonians but i go to the sauna daily its become apart of my routine

[@pekka2089]

You really want to visit Pärnü

[@Swiftieforever143]

The blood sausage is actually our cristhmas food in Estonia. Iknow that it is difficult to walk in old town because my school is there and I have to walk there every day

[@ameeliaapsolon3082]

I LIVE IN ESTONIAAAAA🥳 AND I LIVE IN TALLINN TOOOOOOOO

[@Kerppaheikki]

Try Finnish Jaloviina mixed Dr.pepper it is best drink what u get home!

[@juhanivuorinen6981]

Steve: it was not your first Estonian beer. I saw earlier you were drinking Saku, Estonian beer.

[@kalev6418]

The blood sausage is tratisionaly served with sour crout lingenberry and potatoes we eat it on christmas.

[@DjResR]

3:01 - That's modernish building, maybe from 2010's. Commie blocks were all modular. Also sauna in an apartment is more of a luxury never seen in soviet era and even now it's pretty exclusive to new developements mostly. Blood sausage is mostly christmas food here._

[@akirakivi1122]

and i really like videos like this

[@rudolfaun1235]

At 6:06 dude casually filmed the owner of a biggest Estonian football club FCI Levadia

[@mikesmith-ut1lt]

Alcohol is much cheaper in Estonia than in Finland. The alcohol prices have gone up in Estonia over the years. The difference used to a lot bigger. Traditionally Finnish tourists in Estonia are "booze cruisers" there to stock up on cheap alcohol.

[@gamerfox8256]

i am an estonian and sauna is a veeeeeery popular here, just like finland

[@vinnipuhh1]

The sauna belongs to Estonia as strongly as it does to Finland. it's even debatable who owns it more 😊

[@capitalism5527]

4:02 yes in fact we do

[@xxcyclone]

If you want the actual expericence of the country go to rakvere and find the restaurant named 12 months or 12 kuud/slaavi köök its basically the best estonian/russian food you can possibly get

[@Xayronraid]

my grandfather said that we dont go sauna before theres 100 degrees Celcius

[@Rolikpolik-uu3rz]

Go to Narva Jõesuu its a paradise (in Estonia) (Noorus Spa hotel it has a waterpark and spa. And go to the lake near it and get bread to feed the ducks)

[@Mart77]

I'm sad that you didnt buy any almonds from that Olde Hansa cart. They have their own secret recipe for the coating and these taste absolutely amazingl Kind of like a mix of sweet and spicy, kinda like gingerbread but different.

[@JetLagWarriors]

Aw, I wish we tried this!!

[@Mart77]

@@JetLagWarriors No worries, you can get these next time. They have been parking every day at that same spot for many years

[@SK-nw4ig]

"Crank it up to 65, gonna have a swedish sauna all night" :D Now that's a bar. Have fun!

[@estonianplusgeorgia]

6:25 thats the place most of my classmates go to mcdonalds or just to chill lol

[@user-tj1lp1zr4s]

Im glad you liked in estonia cus: im a estonian

[@sten9596]

i'm estonian and even for me the apartment looks odd :D never seen an apartment like that in estonia

[@badt1]

This big door with the knobs was the only safe place where spy-s meet back in the soviet era. KGB use to put mic behing the knobs there, thats why some of them are missing and you can see some little holes in it. :)

[@sombrero4316]

Finland holds the "home of sauna" title as it is more famous and a large exporter of its culture but this is a shared tradition, did it migrate after the fact or before these two tribes separated, it doesn't matter.

[@LCDVF]

Watch “smoke sauna sisterhood” if possible…

[@Willemies]

4:10 It's a Harvia stove so that's Finnish already. ;)

[@GGgamer_11]

Estonia!

[@Coleford_Whittier]

Nice video! Congratulations on your upcoming baby! We have been fans of yours for quite some time and watch all your videos! We are leaving to travel SE Asia ourselves shortly. We are from the GTA as well, so if you are looking for accommodation on your return, send us a message! Happy travels!

[@JetLagWarriors]

Thanks so much!! Enjoy your trip 😃

[@Sombljeer0]

Estonia have every winter Saunamaraton, 20+ different saunas, 25 + countries attending and more. Next is 8.feb 2025.