Winter holidays in Estonia

Two weeks before my plane took off from Bergen, Estonia was hit by very low temperatures, like minus thirty, etc. My boyfriend was genuinely enjoying emphasizing the freezing weather in his homecountry, which made me not being very about the trip there. Try to understand me, my host family was heading to Las Palmas with its lovely over twenty degrees  for winter holidays and I was about to go to Estonia and freeze to death. In addition to that, it was foggy, rainy, snowy, slushy in Bergen...I definitely „was“ in the mood for travelling.

There were several reasons why I had to overnight andspend exactly 12 hours at Oslo Gardamoen airport:

1) My plane from Oslo to Tallinn was scheduled on Sunday, 8 am.

2) There were no connecting flights, trains or busses between Bergen and Oslo that early in the morning.

3) I booked my ticket on a wrong date, when I changed my reservation, there were no late night flights.

4) I considered it as a waste of money to spend a night in a ho(s)tel.

All in all, I survived a cold night at the airport but will never do it again.

Nobody was expecting me at the tiny Tallinn airport (it’s impossible for me to remember its name), no boyfriend with flowers, just no-one. To make the most out of the waiting, I decided to buy some tickets for public transport. With new currency, euro, the single ticket prices went so up! Lucky me, I still have my Estonian ID and permanent address in Tallinn, so I paid about 9 euros for a 10 day ticket – that was quite a fair price.

On the way back home, we stopped in several shops, after living in Norway for more than half a year, I thought that the prices are more than friendly! Yes, I did some clothes shopping. :-) When we came to our little apartment, I was thinking about two things: It’s small and Viktor keeps it clean! Good for him!

A bit blurry but you at least you get the shape:)

One day,  during the week before my arrival, my boyfriend woke up and felt old enough to get married. So he got dressed and went to a goldsmith's and bought me an engagement ring. When I received it, I thought he was joking. It took him several days to convince me he was absolutely serious. We even went to a wedding dress shop to try on several dresses. Surprisingly, Viktor didn’t looked bored but as he was enjoying it. Unluckily, we didn’t like the same dresses, we cannot agree on which hand we will have our wedding rings, it’s left hand in CZ, it’s right in EE, we disagree about my future surname,...etc.

  

I suspect him a bit that he proposed because he wanted me to come back to live with him...but honestly, being married doesn’t mean I can’t just travel around, at least I hope.

There were other great moments during this trip including:

1) Watching Black Swan in the cinema – it was breath-taking! Even my boyfriend, who didn’t want to see it, gave it 9 points out of 10.

2) Meeting my substitute in MarkIT, she seems like a very nice girl!

3) Walking on the frozen see.

4) Shopping.

5) Cooking, especially lasagna. It was nice to eat together again.

6) Bathtub filled with hot water!

Walking on the frozen sea.

Moments I didn’t enjoy:

1) Hairdresser, the haircut she made would be perfect on another hair type but mine. 

2) Doing what my mum asked me to do. I am still so angry with her that I don’t want to get into details here.

3) My flight back to Oslo had more than an hour delay, I missed my train to Oslo Central Station, I had to buy a new ticket for 200 NOK but fortunately caught Oslo-Bergen train, otherwise it would get damn expensive. (In Norway you can buy a ticket in advance for a certain day and time for a very customer friendly price, the hook is that you cannot change it.)