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August 2002 - Conference trip to the city of Tartu in Estonia.

There was a small conference on landscape studies in the University of Tartu in August, 2002. It was held to celebrate the anniversaries of late geographers Edgar Kant and J.G. Granö. I went to Tartu to participate in the conference. I was accommodated by my friend Santeri who had bought an apartment in an old wooden building in a quartier called Supilinn.

Tartu

I arrived in Tartu on Thursday afternoon August, 22nd. In the evening, there was a get-together reception at Villa Tammekan which is a joint research and education centre of the universities of Turku and Tartu. Santeri came to show me the way and stayed also in the reception himself.

klik Taru Järvinen, Santeri Junttila and I in the garden of Villa Tammekan
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The conference began on the following day. Part of the programme was city walk in Tartu.

klik Raekoja plats (Townhall square)
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klik The statue in the square represents two students
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klik Participants of the conference
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klik Munga street
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klik Statue of a Swedish king Gustaf II Adolf who established the University of Tartu
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klik Bridge in park near the Cathedral
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klik Renovated student housing
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klik Park near the Department of Geography
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klik Building where the Geography Department is located
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klik Professor Anne Buttimer speaking in the opening of the conference
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klik Reception in Tartu City Museum
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klik Anne Buttimer and Olavi Granö with the birthday cake of J.G. Granö and Edgar Kant
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klik Santeri with Kimmo Kontturi who also had came to visit Tartu
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klik Santeri showing how the renovation of his flat is going on
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The conference continued on Saturday which also happened to be my birthday. In the morning I had a walk in Supilinn and in the afternoon I held my presentation in the conference.

klik Lepiku street
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klik The building where Santeri's apartment is located
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klik Garden of the building
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klik Santeri and Kimmo at the door
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klik View from the window
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klik Buildings between Lepiku and Kroonuaia streets
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klik Herne street
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klik Meloni street
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klik Pedestrian promenade in the centre of Tartu
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klik Me after the sauna with the Cathedral in the background
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klik There was a kind of summer festival in the city
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klik The bridge over river Emajõgi
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klik River Emajõgi with night club Atlantis
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klik In a local pub
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klik Triin Bartels with Annika and Veiko Sepp
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klik Me, Triin and Annika
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In the night while returning back to Supilinn I met to German travellers with whom I made a walk in the night of Tartu.

klik The Germans
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More photos from Tartu.

Trip to Lake Peipsi

On Sunday there was an after-conference trip to the villages of Russian Old Believers on the shore of Lake Peipsi. The people there fish and grow excellent onions. We also visited briefly a former collective farm (kolkhoz) and the Alatskivi manor.

klik Detached houses near Tartu
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