Making such a list is actually not that easy, because I do find most of the things I like here (and of course I also have many things I didn’t have in France).

Yet there are a few things I miss, in no particular order:

• Artichokes: Hearts can be found in cans, but I’ve never seen fresh ones. Pity, since it’s something really good.
• Baguette: Obviously… We can find fine white bread, and some shops sell baguette, but it’s not really good. Not all bakeries in France make good bread either, but when it’s good it’s just amazing.
• Viennoiserie, like croissants, etc: Supermarkets sell lots of them here, but they just don’t look well and aren’t specially good. In France, again in good bakeries, they are just delicious.
• Coffee ice-cream: That’s a funny one, there are lots of ice-creams here, many good ones, but there is no coffee ice-cream, and it happens to be my favorite one.
• Good beef meat: To be accurate there is good beef in Estonia, but it’s just damn hard to find, because it’s rare and there are no indications of the type and origin of the animal. This is much better indicated in France and thus it’s easier to find good one.

I could make the list bigger by adding good chicken (seems there is no “First class” chicken here that is grown in fresh air and tastes great). Or rabbit, which is something excellent, we get it only because Ingrid’s grandmother knows the right people on Tartu’s market.

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