25 July 2026 – Narva, Ida-Virumaa Day 1 I departed Haapsalu early in the morning with the sounds of Handel still ringing in my head. A partly cloudy sky overhead as I walked from my charming nook of a rental home to the Haapsalu bus station, nearly a mile from the centre of town. A long trek was ahead of me, as I headed back to Tallinn for a mere 90 minutes before I’d board the next bus to Narva, on the far eastern side of Estonia’s Gulf of Finland coastline, directly borde

ecp’s Années de pèlerinage 2026: Estonia 24 July 2026 – Haapsalu, Läänemaa I left the United States on the 28th of June and had already endured an extensive twenty-five day tour across Europe: a week in Nottingham, England to support my wife who played in an ultimate frisbee world championship tournament, a three-day layover in Amsterdam to watch the Netherlands Radio Choir and Orchestra give a spectacular rendition of Johannes Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem at the Concer

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