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Hail Storm in Tallinn

I was sitting at home today when there was hail storm. At first I thought it was snowing, but the size was just too big. It was making lots of noise as it came down.

Müürsepp Update

Martin Müürsepp, the Estonian basket-baller playing for the Melbourne Tigers has been picked in the NBL All-stars team.

Alcohol in Estonia.

With a high inflation rate in Estonia, prices for most goods are catching up with those that I experienced in Australia. One of the most obvious exceptions is alcohol, which is still pretty cheap thanks to low taxes (though this is set to change in the coming years).
So I was surprised to read about the following bootleg scam in The Baltic Times;

Yet another operation in which criminals have been pumping bootleg alcohol from Russia into Estonia through a hose underneath the Narva River was discovered and shut down on Nov. 12. The Estonian Border Guard said that Russian customs workers in Ivangorod caught a local man red-handed pumping hundreds of liters of alcohol through the hose. The incident is at least the fourth such operation to be shut down since 2004.

Just Imagine if you stumbled across that hose sticking out of the ground. It'd be a great party, till the smuggler found you and your corpse wound up at the bottom of the Narva river!

Estonian Music

2 recently released songs in Estonia.

This one by a group called the Bedwetters recently won the New Sound of Europe prize and the MTV European Video Music Awards.



This second one is possibly the worst song ever recorded. It is by an Estonian weather girl, and it so horrific I can't stop looking at it. Like a car accident!