Going to Estonia

Estonia

- the little country that I love

At last! I’m going back to Estonia in a short while. Hopefully I will be able to drive around and take some pictures. I’d love to go to Narva. The thing is that I thought the coolest part of the fortress there was on the russian side of the border, but I just got the wonderful info that it is in Estonia!

I’m still working on the new design for remains.se, but so far I haven’t come up with anything new. Next step is to upload ALL remaining photos I’ve got, it’s about 5000+ pictures! Gulp.

Well, stay tuned!

Remains.se logotype – the ruin at Saaremaa, Estonia

As a reference for the new remains.se logotype, I will be using a picture I took on the island of Saaremaa (Ösel) outside Estonia’s west-coast. The remains of this building was everything that was left from the “fishing house” that my great grandfather (my mom’s grandfather) August Raun built and used for drying fish (he was a fisherman). This old house is probably why I got my interest in history in the first place, it was about 14 years ago I was in Estonia, the homeland of my relatives, for the first time. Behind this house, at the stone beach, my grandmother Saida (my dad’s mom) and her sister Asta was put in small fishing boats in the middle of the night and waved goodbye to their parents. Later on, their parents was deported to Sibiria.

They did never see each other again.

My brother Rikard took some closeup photos.

New design

I´m working on a new design / layout for remains.se at the moment. Some functions seems quite pointless and other functions are missing, hopefully I will get everything I need within this summer.