- There are 35,000 people on Saaremaa Island and 15,000 in Kuressaare, the capital.

- There is only one new golf course used primarily by the Finns and Swedes who come here to play golf. Snow usually falls in their countries before November while Saaremaa typically gets their first snow after November 15.

- There are direct flights from Stockholm to Kuressaare.

- The island is in the path of migratory birds. Cranes, swans, geese.

- The first people came to Saaremaa Island around 7,000 years ago and were hunters and fishermen.

- An average house sells for $10,000 and the majority are still heated with firewood.

Saaremaa Island, Estonia
- You can pay for everything on your mobile phone including parking. Estonians don’t even bother bringing cash with to the beach. Just carry mobile phones everywhere since almost all of Estonia is wireless.

- Russian forces flew bombing raids on Berlin from their military base on Saaremaa Island.

- Prior to World War II, there were 60,000 people living in Saaremaa while 10 years later there were only 30,000. The remainder were killed and/or deported to Siberia.

one of Saaremaa’s Dutch windmills without vanes, Estonia 

St. Catherine’s Church, Muhu, Estonia
- Common fish are smoked eels, flatfish and herring.

- An average salary is 800 Euros per month. Older people get a pension of 300 Euros a month which is sufficient as long as they don’t have loans like the younger people.

- Wild boar are a problem and some countrymen shoot a boar a week just by standing at their front door to keep them out of their potato fields.

- When a person lives on an island, they become very self sufficient out of necessity and know how to live and optimize whatever they do.