Showing posts with label estonia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label estonia. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Facts about Estonia


Facts about Estonia:


Fun to watch: Kati and me (EstDocs 2012 Short Film Competition - Third Place Award)


Facts:

•Estonia is the smallest of all the Baltic States, being only slightly bigger than Switzerland or Denmark, population 1,3 million
•Tallinn is our medieval capital and by far the biggest city, with a population of around 400,000
•Estonia is almost 50% forest.
•has over 1,500 islands
•has the highest number of meteorite craters per land area in the world
•are 550 schools (most of them have les sthan 300 students)

•have free WiFi almost everywhere;
•lot’s of e-services like E-income tax declaration!
•We are Skype homeland;

•In 2011 Tallinn will be the European Capital of Culture
•In 2011 we also have EURO

Medeval and new city of Tallinn
Sports, folk dance and song festivals 
4 seasons weather +35 to -35 C degrees


Flag: blue sky or sea, black earth or bread and white freedom

Situation map (Europe)



National anthem:


President: Toomas-Hendrik Ilves (opening Keynote form ICGOV2011 - in english language)



Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia

VisitEstonia http://www.visitestonia.com/en/
Estionan official gateway: http://estonia.eu/

 

Estonian education

 
Information of education http://www.hm.ee/?1
 
 Estonian education tree




ICT and education possibilities thru my eyes: click here

 

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Estonian cusine


Recepies: http://www.healthy-life.narod.ru/wor_ek66.htm

Pictures:
Potato, blood sausage, sauercraut, bacon, cranberry jam
Herring, potato, sour cream and onion
Sprat, egg, dill, tomato and cucumber
Chiken, tang mash, pickled cucumber
Pork shank, potato porridge, cranberry, tang mash
Black bread (rye)
Rubarb cake

Kama, whipped cream and cottage shees with strawberries
"Snowballs" with kissel
 
 
Links:
Learning the Traditional Foods of Estonia http://www.thepauperedchef.com/2006/07/learning_the_tr.html
Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_cuisine

Estonian folk and pop music

Folk music







National song festival






Pop music








 


Estonian national clothes

Every Estonian county has their own clothes.

Some examples