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Expats corner: Carlos Ivan Vargas, attracted to Estonia by a digital society

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In “Expats corner”, we catch up with foreign-born residents who have made Estonia their home, to find out what they really think of the country. Carlos Ivan Vargas is the president of the Mexican Talent Network in Estonia. Carlos Ivan Vargas is an energetic and a tech-savvy doctorate student from Mexico City. Apart from studying, he works […]

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Tallinn Airport voted third best in Europe, ninth best in the world

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According to the airport guide, Sleeping in Airports, Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport is the third best airport in Europe and the ninth best in the world, based on the overall experience determined by travellers who had taken the site’s 2016 airport survey. In the annual survey, the guide asked travellers to rate airports worldwide based

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Five cultural differences when I moved to Estonia: a British expat’s view

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Every country has cultural differences. These are the five that David Bailey, a British expat in Tallinn, immediately noticed. I moved to Estonia in the summer of 2014. Married to an Estonian with three young children, I wanted to try my chances at living in another country. So I packed up my belongings, convinced my

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Saaremaa among the “best under-the-radar islands” in Europe

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Business Insider, a US-based online newspaper, has listed the Estonian island of Saaremaa as one of 17 best under-the-radar islands in Europe. The newspaper says that “Saaremaa takes visitors back to the time of the pirates and Vikings who once called it home”. “It’s easy to imagine them as the dense pine forests, thatched-roof houses,

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How I fell in love with Hiiumaa and discovered the Estonian passion

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Iris van Genuchten, originally from the Netherlands, writes how she ended up in the Estonian island of Hiiumaa and fell in love with it, discovering the Estonian passion along the way. Some encounters pass by gradually, almost unnoticed, until some years later that encounter turns out to be a key moment for your future life. I

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