Kuvatud on postitused sildiga middle-estonia. Kuva kõik postitused
Kuvatud on postitused sildiga middle-estonia. Kuva kõik postitused

17.01.11

Vacancy for the manager


You have:

College education (BA)
experience on management,
knowledge of foreign languages and
interests in history

Then You could be amongst those in middle-estonia, who have a real job! This vacancy is in Paide, town in the very centre of estonia and capital of county Jerwen, subject of this offer is a management of a tourist attraction - medieval castle (vallitorn) that act as a time machine! Vacuum of social capital in estonia is successively more serious problem - towns and village roads empty person by person, lost for better salaries offboard. I could apply for this job myself but distance from my homeland hof Kau to Wiessenstein castle is too long for everyday ride - 40 km not-maintained heavy offroad between bogs or same amount of Tallinn-Tartu highway in between the most dangerous Ussisoo section. I could use some public transport but then I had to walk also some 5 km in day.

Next manager of middle-estonian time-machine castle will also have to answer for those questions:

Why there is no open stairwais so you have to ride with elevator at least eight times while you visit the centre?

Why the webpage have one type of graphic design and the tower have only A4 xerox-copied textpaper for tourists?

Why there is no signs in highway leading to tower?

Why the only Estonian historic figure in this so called "history-centre" is Arvo Pärt (christian and russian inviders have many portraits with golden frames)?

Why the mainstream newspapers have not yet done story of vallitorn?

Despite all, Weissenstein castle is an interesting attraction, when I visited it, recieptionists were Paide towns development officier and development and foreign relationships specialist. In Paide town, the best thing is closeness of power, for example when I visited Paide´s City Hall for middle-estonian development conference, I was personally thanked by Paide mayor Sarapuu for attending. Middle-estonia is in need for a good thinkers and doers.

14.01.11

Last day for Estonian kroon



In this picture, taken by two weeks ago, is estonian 500-kroon money, biggest nominal. I probably never own this kind of bill again. I bought some food for it and got back 5 € and some eurocents. Today is the last day estonians can buy stuff for kroons, I bought today some milk and had to buy in euros - seven litres raw milk for 2.70 €, I make some cheese from 4 litres.

I have 3 new banknotes left that I probably keep, one of them 2 kroon bill with Karl Ernst von Baer on it and two 25 kroon bills with Estonian writer Anton Hansen Tammsaare. I have never read his books or blog but his childhood home is in my neighbour county Albu so I sometimes ride there by bike.

10.01.11

R.I.P. Harmi manors watermill



Who knows local or not very local context, will see snowcrashed roof of the New-Harm manors watermill as a symbolic act. It is much more sad if another lost building was not under protection of muinsuskaitse (cultural objects defence). Life in this building was already gone, big roof was rotting and part of the wall was already crashed by the last winters melting snow.



Here´s another view of this watermill, photographed one month ago. I knew that the countdown for this roof was on.