Hi there!

Great you are paying a visit to our blog. Weird blog right? What is all that educational stuff doing here? Let us explain that to you!

This blog is not just any travel blog. Actually, there is probably not a blog like it. This blog is written by the Tallinn Travel Committee from the Honours College track 'Science and Society' at Leiden University and captures the journey of 42 students. All of us are bachelor students at Leiden University, in the western part of the Netherlands. Next to our regular bachelor, we are all part of an extracurricular Honours program, which means we are able to take extra, more diverse, and more challenging courses. You can find more information on the Honours Academy website!

To make this additional educational program even more fun and informative, we are allowed to go abroad in our last year in order to do research in another capital in Europe. This way, we get in contact with different cultures, different languages, different customs, and different research topics. This year, we are going to the beautiful capital of Estonia: Tallinn. There we will explore a wide range of topics in small research groups, ranging from the relations with Russia to crime rates, and from e-citizenship to Estonia's pioneering education.

This blog will therefore not only capture the beautiful city of Tallinn with its ancient centre and modern outskirts, but will also inform you about our educational journey through this amazing but mysterious city.

So read about our research, enjoy our best pictures, wait a bit longer for our final video, and who knows, you might find yourself in Tallinn on your next holiday!

Cheers,
The Tallinn Travel Committee