The cold is very cold, not yet biting.
Not far from -10°C.
The snow is here.
Swirling snowflakes falling on frosty sidewalks, public gardens, monuments.
We are in Tallinn, on this January morning, on the Patkuli promontory, having left the impressive Alexander Nevski Orthodox cathedral below.
An exceptional panorama, from the ramparts of the old town, the dungeons, the bell tower of the Baptist church of Saint-Olaf, and which extends to the Baltic Sea and, in the distance, the invisible Finnish coasts.
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Tallinn, capital of the smallest and northernmost of the three Baltic states, Estonia.
1.3 million inhabitants.
Nearly 300 kilometers of border with Russia, on its eastern flank, 330 kilometers with Latvia, to the south.
Member of the European Union and NATO since 2004, like Lithuania and Latvia.
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This is where the novelist Xavier Bouvet settled, with his wife and child.
Former municipal councilor in Metz, beaten…
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