Stef and I take a quiet trip across the Baltic to Tallinn. I wanted to scope the place out before I return next week and teach at the Estonian Academy of Arts Media Lab, and it was nice just to check the place out. the quick transfer last spring between boat and bus on the way to/from Riga didn’t give any impressions. we wandered around the old city, obviously tourists, had a terrible lunch. then met up with Ivika, Mare’s assistant at the Lab who graciously showed us around to a nice cafe and then to a couple art exhibitions and an opening. the culinary side of things definitely ended up on the positive side when we discovered a fabulous Russian restaurant — okay, in the tourist guide, but, still, the food was great. back to Helsinki by catamaran. another long and exhausting day.