On Cleaning Up a Room in Tallinn, Estonia|
posted on 26 December 2011 | posted in
Construction and Industrial
I'm an avid hitchhiker and I stay with local people all over the world. I've done a big hitchhiking trip across the Eastern Sea, from Hamburg to Denmark, through Sweden and Norway to Finland. Together with my girlfriend. We took a ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. I had contacted a good friend of mine in Tallinn, she's a journalist, and she told us we were welcome at her ex boyfriend's place. We arrived there, a really interesting Soviet era apartment in a huge building which is part of 40 plus or so similar enormous building. We could sleep in the living room, but we were caught by a room that was chock full of junk, old furniture, papers, books, clothes, toys, anything. We took it on ourselves to clean up the whole place, as a nice gesture. Mind you, it was a huge undertaking. I've worked in jobs like oil tank installation and this one was up there with the most difficult of jobs I'd carried out - no good deed goes unpunished! However, it's nice to give back when staying at other people's places all the time. It took us an hour or five but it was a very satisfying experience. Afterwards we had some excellent Estonian food and hard liquor.
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