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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Kevin Rushby

Baltic beauty: exploring Estonia’s northern coast

Fishing village, Altja, Lahemaa National Park, Estonia.
Summer cabins in the fishing village of Altja at the eastern end of Lahemaa national park. Photograph: Alamy

Draw a horizontal line west across the globe from the northern coast of Estonia and it will pass through the southernmost tip of Greenland. Hence my surprise to be looking out on an Estonian beach and seeing sunny sand where children are playing while their parents get the picnics out.

My guide, Signe, is foraging along the line of vegetation between the sand and the pine trees.

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