Estonia Life-Style Spare time
Spare time
It seems that the main leisure time activity in Estonia is sport. Those who never make it to the gym are excellent armchair sportsmen and enthusiastically follow their fellow countrymen’s successes on the international arena. Possibilities for active recreation include bathing in the sea in the summer, autumnal trips into the forest for mushrooms and wild berries and odd jobs around the summer cottage. All of these activities offer lots of sporting excitement.
About 10 years ago, nobody appeared to have any spare time at all (the common purpose seemed to be to accumulate huge amounts of money, and fast) whereas now people have realised that money is not enough to sustain one. Hence, now one can see young people on roller skates, bicycles or skateboards, cars loaded with skis, canoes or surf boards but also party animals hurrying from one venue to the other in the darkness of the night. Estonians have learned how to relax.
When colleagues return from their holidays in autumn, the first topic of conversation is Midsummer Night’s Eve, the smoke sauna and strawberries from their own garden: summer is the time when Estonians prefer to stay home.
