Bog sledding thru frozen meadows and forests on a brilliantly ☀️ day in Soomaa National Park🇪🇪 - in lieu of “fifth season” canoeing, since the last week of freezing temps has suspended the flooding. #USInEst

Head kevadpäeva, 🇪🇪! Congrats on 20 years in 🇪🇺.

Today was a glorious traditional 🇪🇪 start of spring.

We 🚴 ed to the Outdoor Museum for the Spring Festival, and then saw the end of the 🇺🇸 muscle car gathering in Maarjamäe.

How did you celebrate 🇪🇪 Kevad?
#Kevad #USInEst

Teeme Ära 2024 - Let’s do it 🇪🇪!

🇺🇸 embassy joined Lääne-Harju municipality residents & environmentally focused GLOBE students in Paldiski to clean up part of the 200 year old Petrimet from decades of trash.

Aitäh Mayor Jaanus Saat for the invite to join. #TeemeÄra #USInEst

Thrilled to return to cycle commuting, now that the snow & ice is mostly gone from the streets/paths of Tallinn🇪🇪 - a brilliant 🌞 day even if temperatures are sub freezing again.

Tallinn is a beautiful city best covered on foot and on bike. #USinEst

It’s Cinco de Mayo!

Thanks to 🇺🇸U.S. Embassy Tallinn’s Marines for arranging the community celebration of 🇲🇽🇺🇸 heritage, eating 🌮, swinging at a candy filled piñata, playing loteria (a full card bingo variant), and much more. #CincoDeMayo #USInEst

It’s 🇺🇸 National 🚴 to Work Day!

Thank you/Aitäh to the 14 U.S. Embassy Tallinn 🇺🇸🇪🇪 employees & family members who joined the diplomatic peloton.

Thanks to Tallinn’s bike lane network, the whole commute minus 5 blocks was on non road paths. #USInEst #BikeToWork

Marking the 79th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day with 🇪🇪 allies.

180,000+ 🇺🇸 forces gave their lives in the European theater in WW2, fighting for the freedom of others.

🇪🇪 remained occupied by Soviet forces until it regained independence in 1991.
#HistoryMatters #USInEst

Aitäh/Thank you Marvin Haiman, Chief of Staff for the Washington, DC Metro Police, for visiting 🇪🇪 this week, giving lectures at the Police Academy, & conducting comparative analysis of police education systems. Great 🇺🇸🇪🇪 law enforcement exchange. #USinEst

Nothing says “Kevad” (spring) in 🇪🇪 more than the Palamuse school made famous by Oskar Luts’ 1912 novel “Kevade,” filmed on location in 1969.

Going “back to school”/museum was the highlight of today’s Jõgeva trip. (My slate writing message: Слава Україні). #Kevade #USInEst

Honored to host 🇪🇪 Textile Association members & museum reps to showcase the 🇺🇸 Art in Embassies textiles from six U.S. contemporary artists, as well as the textiles we have collected during our postings in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, & 🇺🇦. Textiles/art unites. #USInEst

🇪🇪🇺🇸 culinary barter of homemade treats: Seto sõir (soft cheese with cumin) for New England style apple butter, to top off a discussion of outreach and summer engagement, from cultural festivals to 🚴 thru Setomaa. #USInEst

Nägemist Saaremaa🇪🇪! Parting images:

—Kaali Crater created by a meteorite 3500 years ago
—Salme Viking ship burials c750, uncovered in 2008 during bike path construction, rewriting Viking history
—Windmills on hills & cufflinks
—Sailboats in Kuressaare harbor twilight
#USInEst

Back in #Tartu2024 European City of Culture:
—discussing challenges & opportunities with Mayor Urmas Klaas;
—joining the BalticDefenceCollege Conference on Russia;
—taste testing Anderson’s Craft Beer’s 🇺🇸 Pale Ale, to be served at our 2024 Independence Day reception. #USInEst

🇺🇸🤝🇪🇪 #USInEst

🇺🇸🤝🇪🇪 #USInEst
Narva slogan: #EuropeStartsHere

🇺🇸🤝🇪🇪 #USinEst

Happy World 🐝 Day!

2024 is year seven of our backyard apiaries in 3 countries - one year in 🇺🇦, four years in 🇺🇸, and now 2 years in 🇪🇪. #Pollinators #USInEst

Fantastic 🇺🇸🇪🇪 conversation with Kaidi Ruusalepp, Anna-Greta Tsahkna, Triin Kask, & Kadri Tuisk about what makes 🇪🇪 succeed as a startup nation. Starts with education, freedom to succeed (and fail), and tapping everyone’s potential. #StartupFounders #USInEst

Than you & farewell to the 1-506 'Red Currahee' & welcome to Estonia to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3 BCT battalion! Our steadfast commitment to Estonia, strengthening collective defense, & deterrence in NATO's eastern flank continues! #StrongerTogether #USinEST

We're amazed by 🇪🇪 students' English abilities! Congrats to all the participants and winners of the 2024 English Language Speaking Competition. Ambassador George P. Kent enjoyed participating as a judge. #USinEST