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We have just arrived in Tokyo, for the start of a 7.5 month trip through Asia, that will end in Muscat, Oman. Besides Japan and Oman, we also plan to visit Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates.

Another summer in Estonia, heading to Asia.

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2006-04-13 19:47:11

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We have just arrived in Tokyo, for the start of a 7.5 month trip through Asia, that will end in Muscat, Oman. Besides Japan and Oman, we also plan to visit Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates.

But first a short update of what we did this summer.

We spent most of the summer in Estonia. Yet again we rented an apartment in Tallinn for 2 months. I worked on a project to build a freeware package for the analysis of website traffic.

We traveled around Estonia as well, which suddenly seems to have become a very popular destination. Surprisingly also for people from Southern Europe, such as Mariapaola and Roger from Italy and Spain who we met in the youth hostel in a small town on the island of Saaremaa.

On Saaremaa we also re-visited the Kaali meteorite crater and the leaning lighthouse of Kiipsaar on the Harilaid peninsula. The continued existence of this lighthouse is threatened as the sea slowly eats away the coast.

To the north on the island of Hiiumaa, we explored bunkers the Soviet Army built during the occupation and together with Mireilla, a friend of Maris visiting us from Holland, we traveled to the North-Eastern part of the country and peeked across the border into Russia.

The photos of all these places and others that we have visited this year and in previous years can all be found on my Estonia page.

Stockholm
To get to Estonia, we normally drive through Poland, which is also the way that I arrived in Estonia this summer. But this time we decided to drive back over Sweden so that we could visit Jessica, a friend who we know from Guatemala. In order to go via Sweden you must however first cross the Baltic sea by ferry.

The last time we did that was on the 18th of August 1994 when we took the Estonia ferry from Tallinn to Stockholm. A little more than 1 month later in the ...