Separated by 50 miles of the Baltic Sea, Finland costs twice as much as Estonia and feels a world apart. Tallinn was yet another charming old world city. I am sure I have seen it in an old illustrated Grimm's fairy-tale book. The city walls are intact and only one section has been removed to …

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Kaunas, Lithuania was quiet. I wasn't expecting much, and it was a good place to break the journey from Warsaw to Riga, but the city was empty. We were the only people in our entire hostel. They didn't even have staff and we checked in with a lock box. It was weird to be alone …

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