15th February 2018
Melbourne, Australia
My last weekend started in great style on Friday evening at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum, where I joined hundreds of Melburnians for an evening of 60s and 70s British music, fish and chips and even sneaked in a summer Pimms… The vibrance of the 60s was recreated by the band Marshmallow Undercoat who paid tribute to […]
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28th January 2016
Melbourne, Australia
Earlier this month I met again a great team of young Estonians who have being working hard to establish a social enterprise in their town of Viljandi, southern Estonia. Their student company is called Vanora, and there is a lot more about their company on their Facebook site . Their business model is simple – in return […]
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8th December 2015
Melbourne, Australia
Estonian Armed Forces get the job done with minimal fuss and I love that. Not my words, but those of Prince Harry when in Estonia last year, certainly another big fan of the Estonian military, having worked alongside them in Afghanistan. His assessment of their service in Afghanistan would no doubt be shared by the […]
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18th July 2014
Melbourne, Australia
Estonia is the country in Europe with the most business start-ups per head. It has a lot of bright young people, as its top rankings in the PISA tests affirm (top results in the world outside East Asia). The Estonian education system is strong throughout, but excels in particular in maths, science, engineering and computing/ICT. […]
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