We're back in Estonia! Along with all the other teams who are working on projects as part of the First Motion program (more information
here), we are in Viinitsu. Looking over the sea from this wonderful place feels just like looking over "our" lake that's a bit further to the South-East. We mentioned earlier how Lake Peipus feels like the sea - here, at the actual sea, we get the proof.
The First Motion lab in Viinitsu is very interesting and exciting, and among other events and lots of action, we also pitch our project and its status to the group - successfully, as we think. The lab takes place in the
Viinitsu Conference and Culture Centre, which interestingly is owned by the former manager of ABBA.
We film some original smuggling tools on Super8 in the local history museum; canisters that were used to smuggle things across the water to Finland. In the late afternoon on October 7, we leave Viinitsu by car to drive back to the lake, where we have booked ourselves into the beautiful
Aarde Villa. So we have a new place to stay! It's not that we didn't like the previous one, the
Nina Houses were fantastic, but it's autumn now, and already rather cold. We're afraid that a lifestyle that features open-air showers could get us all down with a cold pretty quick, and endanger the project's development. So we opted for a more classic accommodation option in an actual hotel. As it's not tourism season anymore, though, we're apparently the only guests in the house that's right at the lake.
It's a quiet evening as we're settling in. There's a kitchen; there's a lobby room with sofas and tables and bookshelves and plants, and of course a big window to the lakeside; there's a fireplace; and there are our cozy rooms. The lake is maybe 20 metres away, and when it's windy, you can hear it even through the window. Except for the lake and the sound of the wind in the trees, it's silent out here. And we know we're back.
