Lots of pictures but everybody always says they like pictures so I hope this isn't over the top.
I have a friend who's partner is from Estonia so when he bought some new furniture she wanted him to drive the old stuff it replaced to Talinn for her parents place.
Consequently me and two mates (Sandy and Dave) ended up driving to Estonia to drop off the furniture and spend a couple of days hanging out in Soomaa National Park - effectively a huge marsh (but very nice). Sandy has a DD same as me but Dave prefers his Henessey. We did a lot of driving stopping off to hang in Germany, Lithuania, and Estonia but we had to stay in a motel in Poland because we left it a little late to look for a site and then couldn't find anywhere we felt comfortable.
Two things of note:
Soomaa was great, wildlife everywhere including beavers and apparently even bears (we didn't see any bears though). Unfortunately being a marsh it is thick with mossies in the pictures you can see Dave in a head net for protection, what you can't see is that I'm drenched in DEET (and the little *******s still managed to bite me through thick socks). But they have lovely camp sites with free wood and fireplaces with benches - and even huts you can use free of charge (if you're unlucky enough not to have nice comfortable hammocks).
You may notice a lot of pictures of our stop near a church in Lithuania. That's because a tree fell over in the night inches from both the car and Sandy's hammock - in fact you can see Sandy tied his hammock to one trunk of a tree that split into two big stems a foot or so above the ground and it was the stem he didn't tie to that broke. I don't think he had anything to do with it though - as you can see it was pretty rotten and it rained heavily so I think it was just an amazing coincidence that that was the night the weight of the rainwater "broke the camels back".
Hearing a huge crash I stumbled out of my hammock and finding a fallen tree where I knew my mate was sleeping, thought I was going to be visiting either the hospital or the morgue but by incredible good fortune he was absolutely fine (and weirdly unconcerned - yes, sometimes ignorance really is bliss).
Anyway, we had an excellent trip - Estonia is a lovely country with wonderful food and drink, hotter than hell saunas, and great places to hang - in fact it's mostly just one huge forest.
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