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I nearly fell off my chair when I saw this supra-incredibilistic thing !!! 😮

Imagine what you can do with that contener! Your camping week-ends will be totally different from now on … all you need is a strong power supply ;-)!

Back from Estonia

Actually, I’m still in Stockholm waiting for my return flight from Tallinn… But as I have some time to kill, I’m already writing a small trip report.

So Tallinn must probably be the most beautiful city I’ve never seen!!! Or at least the old town is.

[Ok, I’m back in Brussels for about a week now…Time to continue with this post 🙂 ]

So the old town is full of medieval buildings: old dungeons, remparts, … When you are walking in the small streets, it’s like you came back 600 years in the past:

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But aside of this external medieval aspect, the city is very modern, with a lot of interesting pubs and restaurants, many of them offering wireless internet access. Unfortunately, the laptop from my work isn’t equiped with Wifi…And I didn’t bring my personal one! 😐

Alcohol seems to be a great tradition in Estonia, and it’s going from beers to vodka, through some liquors. Personally, I tasted some local beers (Le Coq, Saku, …) and brought some vodka ( viru valge – not tasted yet) and liquor (vana tallinn – should have brought 5 liters of it!!!! To good!) back home.

I stayed in Reval Hotel Central ***, nice simple hotel, with great choice of food for the breakfast, and covered by Wifi. There are a lot of others hotels in Tallinn, either in the new city or in the old town.

Estonia, and Tallinn in particular, is a destination I would recommend to anyone. If you are a EU citizen, you national ID is enough to enter the country, but the Euro is still not used there… Happy travelling! 😉

Spa

I spent the last week-end in Spa, a small city located in the Fagnes (Belgium). It is well known for its Formula 1 race track “Spa-Francorchamps” but also for its thermes, where I also spent some time. It’s a big complex of baths filled with thermal water at 32°C, in which you can enjoy an amazing view on the valley! There is also a lot of water games, whirlpools, sauna’s, hammams, …

The thermes are located on top of a hill. You can choose to go there using the funicular from the center of Spa, or by foot, following a little path in the hill (or alternatively, you can drive to it 😉 ):

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There’s also a casino in Spa, if you are in the mood for loosing some money (I clearly wasn’t):

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For sure, it is a great place to relax :yummy:!!!