June 2026. Straight from Krakow, headed to Brussels for work. Brussels with warm and sunny weather is always enjoyable and it is always great to see our European colleagues.
Cyprus is always a good idea. It's a great off-season destination as well. I've been there in January and still been able to swim in the sea and get some tan on. This time we went in the last week of April and it was definitely summer already!
Warsaw, June 2025. Had a quick work trip to Warsaw during Polish Presidency term. Always nice to be back. As close as it is to Estonia, the last time I was in Warsaw , was exactly 10 years ago.
October 2024. As it was Hungary's Presidency term, our first autumn meeting took us to Budapest. As I have been to Budapest before, there was not much touristing around, more touristy info here and here .
May 2024. Had once been to Bruges (Brugge) to tourist around ( look here ), but as there was a conference and a regular EJN meeting right after each other, there was still enough time to enjoy the beauty of the city.
Went on a work-trip to Madrid in early September. Spent a fun weekend with the chicas in Valencia before and headed to North-America after Madrid. So got to spend another day and a half in Madrid when coming back!
Had the last worktrip of 2022 to Brussels in mid December, so decided to fly in a bit earlier and visit some places we'd wanted to visit for some time. Went to Zurich in Switzerland and did a daytrip to Liechtenstein from there. And later on our way to Brussels, had half a day to discover Strasbourg! Awesome mini roadtrip.
Traditional mid-summer work trip to Brussels in the 30 degrees heat. Got to Brussels on an early flight so had half a day to walk around and visit some thrift shops and vinyl stores.
As straight after our work trip to Brussels in May, we were supposed to head for another meeting in Hague, Netherlands, there was no reason to go home for the weekend in between. We took a train from Brussels, spent a hot and sunny Sunday in Amsterdam and took another train from there to Hague on Monday.
I have always loved Brussels in spring or summertime.. Especially when it is proper summer there in the beginning of May and in Estonia is yet nowhere close to it. Like a quick escape into warmth. Brussels might always be for work, but it adds so much to work trips, when after work or on weekends it is so enjoyable outside.
Another work event took us to Paris for a conference and a EU Presidency EJN meeting. Paris is always beautiful! The weather was very spring-like and welcoming. It was obviously hard to fully enjoy the trip as the timing of it fell in the middle of the start of war in Ukraine.
Had our first annual work trip of 2022 in the beginning of February to Brussels. Decided to also stay for the weekend and explore a bit. Visited Dinant and Gembloux.
November 2021. It was my second time in Norway, last time was almost 10 years ago. Lot of things have changed, also the prices, getting groceries, eating out or even gas for the car did not seem so screamingly unaffordable anymore, which shows well how expensive life in Estonia has gotten.
November 2021, an extended work trip to Brussels after 1 year and 9 months felt absolutely amazing. Visited Ghent in Belgium and Lille in France during the weekend as well and enjoyed the absolutely beautiful sunny weather that we were given in mid-November. Mostly it has been more rain even in March or April.