We had planned to spend a weekend with the wacky parachute jumpers who'd asked whether it is possible to take the back door off our plane and jump from it, but circumstances got in the way.
Rapla houses a young and enthusiastic bunch of over 100 jumpers. They are media savvy and know how to work social networking. This meant that they had an article about us published in the local press and 3 hours after we touched down a TV camera from Channel 2 news rolled up along with a print journalist. Fantastic!
Only problem, we didn't check up on permissions for travelling to the Baltic states and it turns out that w had to ask permission to bring our home build into Estonia, d'oh!
So figuring that discretion is the better part of valour 2 months into a 6 month trip, we decided not to wait until business hours to return the missed phone calls from the Estonian aviation authority, but to depart the next day (Saturday), leaving Kuressare, a reportedly beautiful island and town and Kihnu an island where locals wear traditional dress every day for a future trip. Just as we'd been getting keen on trying parachute jumping and celebrating midsummer with the jumpers after their glowing reports :-(
If I were planning a trip to Estonia again, after getting permission, I would fly into Rapla instead of Talinn airport (contact the Rapla club first) and leave the plane there for a few days and take the train to Talinn - it's around 60km away and the train trip would be quicker than the formalities of an international airport.
Rapla houses a young and enthusiastic bunch of over 100 jumpers. They are media savvy and know how to work social networking. This meant that they had an article about us published in the local press and 3 hours after we touched down a TV camera from Channel 2 news rolled up along with a print journalist. Fantastic!
Only problem, we didn't check up on permissions for travelling to the Baltic states and it turns out that w had to ask permission to bring our home build into Estonia, d'oh!
So figuring that discretion is the better part of valour 2 months into a 6 month trip, we decided not to wait until business hours to return the missed phone calls from the Estonian aviation authority, but to depart the next day (Saturday), leaving Kuressare, a reportedly beautiful island and town and Kihnu an island where locals wear traditional dress every day for a future trip. Just as we'd been getting keen on trying parachute jumping and celebrating midsummer with the jumpers after their glowing reports :-(
If I were planning a trip to Estonia again, after getting permission, I would fly into Rapla instead of Talinn airport (contact the Rapla club first) and leave the plane there for a few days and take the train to Talinn - it's around 60km away and the train trip would be quicker than the formalities of an international airport.
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