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Salut! I'm back with the Narva Kulgu Edition, starting with :Kulgu Milk Man đŸ„›đŸ§€In front of the local store of Narva Kulgu...
17/07/2023

Salut! I'm back with the Narva Kulgu Edition, starting with :
Kulgu Milk Man đŸ„›đŸ§€

In front of the local store of Narva Kulgu garden community comes a white car with a very friendly man from SillamÀe and in the back of his car you can buy fresh dairy products from a local production.
I was impressed by the Ryazhenka, a milk drink that originated in Ukraine and is made from raw milk that is heated so that the sugar in it caramelizes.
And the fresh goat milk is highly recommended!
The cheese was like a salty Bulgarian cheese and the curd I will mix with hapukoor.
This is like the best detox from the western virus here.
I'm almost not envious of the pics of my friends in the Provence and Italy.

When? Where?

@„suur primskoje“
Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat
18:00-18:30

@ „Esimene Metsaaed“
Same days around 18:30-18:40

Guest review by Leri.Part2Trigger Warning! Explicit mention of patriarchal violence.BEFORE Fama Keskus we were at the Es...
13/07/2023

Guest review by Leri.
Part2

Trigger Warning! Explicit mention of patriarchal violence.

BEFORE Fama Keskus we were at the Estonia/Russia border crossing on the Estonian side and I felt good because I thought Narva feels like my childhood memory of Tallinn in the early 2000s, I got very sentimental, comfortable and very hopeful and then I see an old Takso sign that I also recognize from my childhood, so I pull out my photo camera from 1991 and want to take a picture of the Takso sign and the blue sky with some clouds and the rare Estonian sun and I adjust the frame so that you can't see anything of the car except the old Takso sign on the roof of the car, but most of all you can see the beautiful blue sky. Suddenly two huge hands behind me take my camera away, in those milliseconds I hope it's my companion making a clumsy joke and I turn around to say that's not funny and I want my camera back and I see that it's a huge guy, about 2 meters tall and really corpulent, holding my camera with both hands and trying to break it. While I see him trying to crush my camera with his bare hands, I feel like he's doing that to my body, so I start screaming really loud and try to get my camera back while he's still holding it violently, I start, hitting him, my partner takes the camera away, but he gives me the free range to keep hitting the Takso driver and while we are cursing each other in Russian I ask the guy why he doesn't use words and touches a woman instead, he tells me that I'm not a woman and that the only hole I have is my ass. I call him "ĐłĐœĐžĐŽĐ°" and walk away in shock.

Hesburger/Shu-Shu @ Fama KeskusGuest review by Leri.PART 1Trigger Warning! Explicit mention of patriarchal violence.We w...
12/07/2023

Hesburger/Shu-Shu @ Fama Keskus
Guest review by Leri.
PART 1

Trigger Warning! Explicit mention of patriarchal violence.

We went to Fama to calm down. The entrance to this sushi place is through Hesburger. So we decided to have a meal here and a meal there. The woman in the sushi store spoke only Russian, was our age, we felt very fragile because of the thing that happened before, so I tried to be very friendly to her and asked if we could eat the sushi we ordered at Hesburger, but she was very unfriendly back to me, while she was very friendly to my male partner. I felt like she was kind of judging me for not making an effort to be a woman, like no make up, messy hair, androgynous, through the wind.... I asked her to put the sushi on plates and she condescendingly said that she will wrap it in plastic. I also ordered a gin/vodka mixed drink in a can. She strictly said to me that my order would be ready in 15 minutes. We paid and headed over to Hesburger. My partner ordered a large Cheesburger meal and I asked him to get my alcoholic beverage from the sushi place.
I felt she would not give it to me, just to put me in my place, to educate me, namely to not want so much out of life, to abide by the general rules, if not gender conformity of this city, then at least the rules of her sushi place. So my partner went to get the gin, brought it to me and said she was very kind to him indeed.
Hescheesburger was ready plus fries and Coca Cola and nothing was good, especially the burger was lousy. After we finished eating, he went to get the sushi wrapped in plastic. The sushi was made by the woman herself, the ingredients were probably all from Rimi, but it was actually quite decent, the miso soup too, while we ate we talked about women trying to uphold the patriarchy with their behavior and suddenly I didn't want to eat anymore and maybe just get drunk, lie down and rot.

Art Club Ro-RoJÔe 3, Narva.Guest review by Leri.I've been there a few times and there was always a band playing that was...
04/07/2023

Art Club Ro-Ro
JÔe 3, Narva.
Guest review by Leri.

I've been there a few times and there was always a band playing that was in the process of forming or reuniting. Once a band called KĂ€si (Estonian for "hand") played there, I missed the band but I met their fans who follow them everywhere.
And my first time in Ro-Ro was in winter. I ate fried dumplings and drank a nice French cider with Lotta, who I'm secretly in love with.
We went upstairs to the room where the musicians were performing, the scenery looked like the last supper, with some post-Soviet 90s cosplay vibes in elegantly slowed down BPM aka straight out of the line-up of the Kantine am Berghain.
The oven was burning, everything was carpeted and it felt like I was dancing right in a sauna with Slovenian Erasmus + students to the beats of four SillamÀe musicians (analogue Quatro?). So it felt political.
The Erasmus + students took a taxi back to Tallinn, which I think was an impressive move. They said that the + in their Erasmus pays for it.

All in all, the place covers many ages and income groups, it is incredibly friendly and inclusive as long as you don't ask too many personal questions or are too keen on small talk. Otherwise you could get beaten up, but that can happen to you in Kopli or PĂ€rnu too.

Restaurant M.ChagallAleksander PuĆĄkini 6, 20308 NarvaWhen I entered this hotel restaurant, I decided to leave it immedia...
04/06/2023

Restaurant M.Chagall
Aleksander PuĆĄkini 6, 20308 Narva

When I entered this hotel restaurant, I decided to leave it immediately. I am afraid to go there again. I bet it's full of FSB agents....
When we left the hotel restaurant, we found a homeless man sitting on the stairs in front of it, talking political nonsense to us and asking for a relatively large amount of money (about 20 euros?). I gave him a cigarette. That's when he decided to look up at us, and there was certainty in his eyes about who we were. So he got up and left. He didn't even ask for money again.

Meanwhile, my ex's mother (traveling with her Israeli passport that she got from her former husband) opened an art gallery in Paris.
She did the same in Tbilisi in 2015 after Russia annexed Crimea, and had to shot down many Kremlin-funded warm pipelines for private investment.
Now there are too many Russian housewives in Tbilisi and the bravest of the Moscow housewives are going to Paris. As they have always dreamed, as in war and peace of Tolstoi.

As long as I am in Paris trying to get my ex and his mother out of the apartment, we will have guest reviews.

Can someone write me how the food in this hotel restaurant "M" is?

Valge KĂ”rvitsăƒ›ăƒŻă‚€ăƒˆăƒ‘ăƒłăƒ—ă‚­ăƒłSergei Lavretsovi 8, 20307 NarvaFirst of all, it's a great place, it feels like Berlin Brandenburg...
26/05/2023

Valge KÔrvits
ăƒ›ăƒŻă‚€ăƒˆăƒ‘ăƒłăƒ—ă‚­ăƒł
Sergei Lavretsovi 8, 20307 Narva

First of all, it's a great place, it feels like Berlin Brandenburg in the early 2000s.
It was a quiet afternoon. Jacobus picked me up from the Joaorg sauna. I waited for him by the swing. We hugged awkwardly. And we carried on a conversation that grew quieter as time went on.
Strangely, ever since a manipulative Russian squeezed me out of my apartment, I don't want to argue with Germans anymore. Thought, I'm actually used to attacking people.
So we chatted about the architecture of Narva and tried to get to Roro, where we had supposedly met the night before (I was on Tavor that night and can't remember).
However, Roro was closed.
Intuitively, we went uphill to Valge K6rvits.
I spoke Russian with the waiter, and usually I am ashamed to speak Russian because I learned it for my ex, while he still has not learned French, my ex has always said that I just was never taimed, my European upbringing was too laissez-faire, I was allowed too much, now I am learning discipline, I, sloppy and privileged European woman, I am getting tougher by learning Russian, for him, he said, because I love him, he said, I have to submit to him and his Russianness, because I am a Western imperialist, I have to pay for my privilege, I have to be ashamed to want to throw a migrant, a refugee out of my apartment, before that, I should rather leave, I have received the privileged European education, it must become my duty to surrender, to give up some of my privilege to this Russian man and become tougher, to go to Narva. We ordered ramen, carrots and Estonian beer, and Jacobus seemed indifferent to my language skills.
The carrots were fantastic. I think the eggs in the ramen were dyed, probably a leftover from Easter.
All in all, it was very pleasant. I had almost forgotten that my apartment was occupied by Russians trying to become part of the Paris art scene....

The tab beer kiosk in KreenholmAddress - TBABecause I'm a Western European who works in marketing, I understand that I'm...
12/05/2023

The tab beer kiosk in Kreenholm
Address - TBA

Because I'm a Western European who works in marketing, I understand that I'm a problem, but I also hope that my love of the periphery gives me a certain social nobility.
While Tallinners who visit Narva are disgusted that it's not like Sweden. I've never seen anything as lame as people who still think Sweden is cool and think that gentrification processes are the same as classism.
So I, knowing the trends from a marketing perspective, can tell you that Kreenholm is like the fu***ng Brooklyn of our time - and there's this beer kiosk there where you can buy Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian beer on tap. You can bring your own plastic bottle or they'll give you their brown OG plastic bottle for the beer.
I can't believe there is such a thing here, and the only explanation is that the real avant-garde is retrograding, namely in Kreenholm, Narva.
Because trends are like sampling, we have to deal with what we’ve already got: a destroyed planet, crazy men, a lot of metal and some hope.
So grab your plastic bottle from the beer kiosk and head to a spring garage party of young art teachers who love cars and social justice.

Kreenholm Hesburger PART 126. Juuli 1a, 20207 NarvaOk, so I'm writing here that I'm French and all, but actually I'm Rus...
10/05/2023

Kreenholm Hesburger PART 1
26. Juuli 1a, 20207 Narva

Ok, so I'm writing here that I'm French and all, but actually I'm Russian too. That's what I understood when I moved to Estonia. Estonians are very meticulous about their ethnological past (sorry, but actually: "lol"). At a cultural evening in Narva, some architects investigated my ethnological past (LOL) and found out that my family had fled to Paris after the October Revolution of 1917.
IN THE PRESENT TIME it was just a joke in my family that our ancestors were Mensheviks, but for Estonians it is NO JOKE.
Now that I am actually 100% Russian for Estonians, I am also almost Soviet, I am almost the people across the river who voted for Putin, so I am also the person who will tell you that Hesburger is a compromise between Mcdonalds and "Teremok" (yes, you Westerners don't know, but it is a Russian traditional food chain). Hesburger is originally Finnish, they put an egg in their classic burger and the sauces in the burger are extremely awesome. I think when I was there with Jacobus they played classical music?! And eating burgers at the gas station actually felt like LA....

Maxima XX T550 warm food counter.Kreenholmi 54, 20104 Narva.Since this is the Kreenholm edition, we have to talk about M...
07/05/2023

Maxima XX T550 warm food counter.
Kreenholmi 54, 20104 Narva.

Since this is the Kreenholm edition, we have to talk about Maxima XX T550 here. Generally, the hot food counters in Estonian supermarkets deserve their own section.
The women behind the counter are the best, offering you hot chicken, potatoes or salads. I and probably every average Narva nuclear family (mother, father, child) eat here every weekend. My new Kreenholm routine is: Manufaktuur during the week and here on weekends. It doesn't matter that I live in PÀhklimÀe. Because there I only buy CBD in this one store inside the postal services -supermarket complex.
So Kreenholm Maxima has the best sauna supplies, some cute police merch, a weird Russian cosmetics store with imported Korean cosmetics that are probably illegal in the EU, and a hot food counter.
I recommend never ordering fish there. Really! Everything else works!
I take potatoes (always) and meat and salads and then I buy Estonian vitamin water and go to my abandoned and leaky 32,000-acre property and have dinner on the fifth floor, which I've turned into my factory office.... It's the smallest office in Kreenholm, but it's next door to Ursula von der Leyen's office. I think she also has a secret office for the affair she is having with our President Emmanuel on the third floor.
When the weather is good, I eat my Maxxima meal from the plastic boxes by the fence, from where I can wave to the Ivangorod Russians. If it's sunny enough, they wave back.

Restoran “Manufaktuur”Part 1Kreenholmi 45Critique and visit by Mia TammeYou walk into a cafe.There is nobody here except...
06/05/2023

Restoran “Manufaktuur”
Part 1
Kreenholmi 45
Critique and visit by Mia Tamme

You walk into a cafe.
There is nobody here except you.
It looks like a restaurant.
But it’s a canteen.
They have water with raspberries on the table.
3 slices of orange that have lost their colour and shape
You put some water into your glass.
You cannot figure out if you like it or not.
They keep on chatting to you in Russian.
You forget your nationality.
What an ease to be separated from that burden.
You read about giving head on the streets of New York on your ipad.
And imagine them all fantasizing about s*x while cooking that salmon for you.
It doesn't make you uncomfortable, but you think that's hot.
you finish that creasy plate of food.
Steal a raspberry from one of the desserts, because they are all giggling in the back room.
And you walk out to the industrial landscape.

Joaorg Lavazza automaatRaja 5 (?), Narva.It's definitely the best coffee option in town considering the value for money....
03/05/2023

Joaorg Lavazza automaat
Raja 5 (?), Narva.

It's definitely the best coffee option in town considering the value for money. I love it. And it's so cheap, I had two black Lavazza coffees with sugar before I met the cop.
He came in uniform because he was chasing a guy who was speeding and then provoked the cops by speeding even faster, the cops started chasing him with blue lights, then the guy left his cart and started running. After telling me this story, he sipped his Lavazza vending machine cappuccino (supposedly good too) and I was having a third black coffee with double sugar. We went for a walk along the Narva promenade and I am still very impressed by the two medieval castles, the Estonian one is older, the Russian one is of course bigger...
He tried to explain to me that they (Narva police?) have a new forensic expert from Germany. He was very proud to mention that she is German. Come on, I am French, a direct neighbor of the Germans, I would know if there was something to be proud of!
So I've decided for myself that I can't deal with law enforcement like this, that I need to change my dating strategy. Even though he's around 25 and I'm 44 myself. Still, just because I'm traumatized by a Russian, I can't become some kind of fascist and date an executor of a national state power. That's why I'm going to try to make some new friends. I heard that Kreenholm could be good. That's where the artists live, and I hope artists still hate the cops like they did when I was young.

Gastrobar SocialAleksander Puơkini 15, 20309 NarvaI felt like I am immune to this place. I don’t remember anything. Prob...
30/04/2023

Gastrobar Social
Aleksander PuĆĄkini 15, 20309 Narva

I felt like I am immune to this place. I don’t remember anything. Probably I went in. I ate, paid and left. But it’s blank. Maybe I was there twice? Maybe I am there right now?
Someone should do a virtual review with oculus rift to restore at least some memory of this place or at least give me some fake memories to remember!?
Because I am starting to think that I have anterograde amnesia - a short-term memory loss, where you are unable to create new memories, so you live in the old ones

Is it Narva or am I just retelling the plot of Christopher Nolan's “Memento”?

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