Here we are in the country of the Singing Revolution. For years Tallinn had been the venue for singing festivals. In 1987 the people began spontaneously demonstrating by singing national songs and hymns in defiance of the Soviets. In 1988 at a number of music festivals people started to link hands while singing these national songs and a tradition began. In September 1988 a huge song festival was held at the Tallinn Song Festival Arena where 300,000 people (abou...

Another fine hot day greeted us as we met for our driving tour of the city. Our Latvian guide for the morning was excellent. He had studied archeology and theology and was passionate about his country's history. As we passed the various embassies he hummed an appropriate song and later during the tour he sang local folk songs - boy could he sing. After driving for half an hour we got out for our walking tour of the old town seeing a mixture of Gothic, Renaissanc...