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The Baltic Sea, shared by Estonia, Finland & Sweden (plus some others)

Hello again, Blogonauts!

Hankering for more Jaunticles? You're in luck (or you're at least a sucker for pun-ishment)!

Once again I'm sitting in Boston's Logan Airport, preparing to wing my way across the Atlantic to visit lands bordering the Baltic Sea (and two of them nervously bordering Russia).

Midday tomorrow, Lufthansa will land me in Tallinn, Estonia, a country that was reluctantly a former state in the USSR. Now in NATO and the E.U., this small but culturally rich nation is a bit off the tourism trade routes, so we'll get to know more about it together. (Estonia's best known classical composer? Arvo Pärt.)

After spending a few days exploring Estonia, the journey's next leg leads to Helsinki. The Finnish capital is reputedly a very modern city, but the land of Sami, sauna and smoked herring has a culture older than its architecture. (Most famous Finnish classical composer? Jean Sibelius.)

Then after taking an overnight ferry, I will disembark in Stockholm, Sweden to wander this city of islands. The most recent Nobel Prize winners will have just been notified a few days before I arrive. The naval heritage of this historic European power means many nautical museums to explore. (The most recognized Swedish classical composer? Dietrich Buxtehude.)

After spending a couple of weeks bounding around the Baltic, I'll head once again to Manchester, England for the (last ever) QED conference. (You may remember I have attended each of the previous 2 years.)

All in all, it should be a beguiling Baltic bouquet of boats, lingonberries, & smorgasbord. And as usual, you are invited to join me via my attempts at prose and photos.

Enjoy yourselves with these posts, and if you leave a question or comment, please include your name (or a recognizable alias).

Blog to you later!

Larry 

Location: Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), East Boston, MA 02128, USA

Comments

  1. John DaneOctober 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM

    Puhleze Larry, Buxtehude is more Danish than Swedish ! Although born 1637 in Helsingborg in Skane, which was then part of Denmark, he lived and composed mostly in Helsingor, Zeeland, and Lubeck.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM

    Safe travel and have a wonderful time! We were missing your jaunts. Joe and Anna Viadero

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