Colin Clark

This website is a personal record of a week-long exploration of Estonia's cultural heritage that took place from 4-11 August 2019, The programme was developed by ARCH Scotland and funded through Erasmus+ and hosted by Maarika Naagel of Vitong Heritage Tours.

Aa is for Everything contains reflections, observations, bits and pieces of history gleaned from our guide, from my own research, and from our many hosts who generously gave of their time and shared their knowledge.

The ABC structure of this site is inspired by the book Sõrulase Aabits, a primer on the cultural heritage of Sõrve on the island of Saaremaa. The words aabits comes from  the Estonian pronunciation of the first three letters of the alphabet: ah-bey-tsay

You can read the stories and articles here as a kind of idiosyncratic introduction to Estonian culture as I found it in 2019. It's far from exhaustive, but hopefully instructive.

 A bit of everything.

Thanks for reading.

Colin