Baltic beauty: discover the northern coast of Estonia

Draw a horizontal line westward across the globe from the northern coast of Estonia and it will pass through the southernmost tip of Greenland. Hence my surprise when I looked out onto an Estonian beach and saw sunny sand where children were playing while their parents prepared picnics.

My guide, Signe, searches for food along the vegetation between the sand and the pine trees.

"Next month there will be wild strawberries here," she says.

The sun is shining on the Gulf of Finland, where a white sail appears. An old man is sitting on a log, methodically cutting some driftwood ...