One of the cool things about being in the Foreign Service is all the places you get to see that you might not have otherwise.
This weekend, because my wife had not yet made it to Tartu, we decided to hop in the car and go there.
Tartu, as I have mentioned before, is a beautiful city, the second largest in Estonia at just more than 100,000 residents. I have been there several times for work, as well as during my language immersion, but we had just not gotten around to making the two hour trek there for fun.
We watched a bit of the Tartu Marathon (which we hadn't known was happening), wandered the town a bit, took a few pictures, and had lunch at a nice little cafe in town hall square. Then we wandered along the Ema Jogi, the country's most important river, and spotted some swings on the river bank. We spotted this rainbow as well.
For whatever reason, Estonia is the land of rainbows. Maybe God just really loves Estonia. Or they have put up with enough that it is a message to them that he won't put them through that again in the future.
At any rate, we spotted this double rainbow on the way home, and then another at home before the sun set. And I spotted one from my office window a few minutes ago.
I will be doing a bit more wandering this week. My wife is going to a conference in Budapest, Hungary this week. I can't join her for all of it, but I am going to fly out for one night. I am never been there and we have good friends living there now. So why not?
Now when in my past life could I have said, Hey, why don't I fly out to Budapest for the night?
Not. Ever.
This weekend, because my wife had not yet made it to Tartu, we decided to hop in the car and go there.
Tartu, as I have mentioned before, is a beautiful city, the second largest in Estonia at just more than 100,000 residents. I have been there several times for work, as well as during my language immersion, but we had just not gotten around to making the two hour trek there for fun.
We watched a bit of the Tartu Marathon (which we hadn't known was happening), wandered the town a bit, took a few pictures, and had lunch at a nice little cafe in town hall square. Then we wandered along the Ema Jogi, the country's most important river, and spotted some swings on the river bank. We spotted this rainbow as well.
For whatever reason, Estonia is the land of rainbows. Maybe God just really loves Estonia. Or they have put up with enough that it is a message to them that he won't put them through that again in the future.
At any rate, we spotted this double rainbow on the way home, and then another at home before the sun set. And I spotted one from my office window a few minutes ago.
I will be doing a bit more wandering this week. My wife is going to a conference in Budapest, Hungary this week. I can't join her for all of it, but I am going to fly out for one night. I am never been there and we have good friends living there now. So why not?
Now when in my past life could I have said, Hey, why don't I fly out to Budapest for the night?
Not. Ever.
2 comments:
I love reading your blog. My husband (FSO) and I are finishing his first tour in Norway, and we've taken total advantage of being in this part of the world. Several women from the Embassy and the international school took advantage of this past long weekend and made it to Tallinn. You have a beautiful city there, although we never did make it out of Old Town.
I love reading your blog. My husband (FSO) and I are finishing his first tour in Norway, and we've taken total advantage of being in this part of the world. Several women from the Embassy and the international school took advantage of this past long weekend and made it to Tallinn. You have a beautiful city there, although we never did make it out of Old Town.
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