The Beginning of the Affair - Part 1

An Unpromising Date

Tallinn’s town hall in July this year. Parts of it date back to the 14th Century.

It is the 20th anniversary of when I met Kristin in Tallinn, the Estonian capital, and the story of Wild Bear Lodge began.

We fell in love and, later that year, she moved to Moscow to be with me, a serious leap of faith for a genetically Russophobic Estonian.

The following s…