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Baltic Notes (1)

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Aug - Oct some essential facts: all lithuanian boys are stupendously good-looking while latvian and lithuanian are mildly related, estonian is related to finnish. all languages are not slavic, so not related to russian in any shape or form tinned bear is a thing this region is classed as northern europe, anywhere east of germany is not necessarily 'eastern europe' estonia was the first country to consider internet access as a human right squirty cream is available in most petrol stations' coffee machines 'water', 'bear', 'beer' are problematic words with a british accent in europe there are 50 types of peat moss, 37 of which grow in estonia Apples I'm turning down what I now call the 'Apple District', an area where the air smells of apples and the ground is covered in their brown crushed mush. Plastic bags on fences, bowls on doorsteps, baskets on bikes, wooden crates on stools: all are full of apples. Women on bikes also stood here durin...