{"id":154190,"date":"2026-01-03T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=154190"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:36:34","slug":"these-were-your-favourite-articles-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/these-were-your-favourite-articles-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"These Were Your Favourite Articles of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">At the start of the new year, it\u2019s a good moment to take a look back and list the Baltic Guide online news topics that received the most clicks from readers in 2025. Here is the Top 5 in reverse order:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>5: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/naked-in-tallinn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Naked in Tallinn<\/span><\/a><\/span>,<\/strong> written by our editor-in-chief Susanna Poikela, explores Tallinn\u2019s nude beaches with her dogs, which are also nude by the way. This article reveals\u2014ahem!\u2014the most popular, as well as some relatively unknown, beaches where visitors can go skinny-dipping or sunbathe <i>au naturale<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>4: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/estonia-is-the-worlds-cleanest-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Estonia Is the World\u2019s Cleanest Country?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, by Stewart Johnson. Estonia was recently named the World\u2019s Cleanest Country, according to the Environmental Performance Index, or EPI. But is it true? The article explores how the rankings are made, and one major factor isn\u2019t necessarily how clean a country really is, but how much that country has improved over the last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/how-to-become-an-estonian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">How to Become an Estonian<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>, also by Stewart Johnson. This is a humorous guide to understanding those little cultural quirks that make you love or hate a place you visit. This guide also helps you overcome some cultural differences to make your stay more enjoyable, and definitely more fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/the-15-best-early-opening-breakfast-places-in-tallinn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The 15 Best Early-Opening Breakfast Places in Tallinn<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>, by Mikko Savikko. This piece is exactly what the title describes, the 15 best places to get an early breakfast in Tallinn, which is an especially useful article if you also have to catch an early ferry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">And now\u2026drum roll please\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/five-ways-to-protect-yourself-when-visiting-estonia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Five Ways to Protect Yourself When Visiting Estonia<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>. Our writer, the one writing this now\u2014Stewart Johnson\u2014claims the top spot for the Baltic Guide\u2019s most-read article of 2025 in English. This fun article talks about the dangers of visiting Estonia, namely that if you visit here, you are in danger of wanting to <i>stay<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Baltic Guide wishes all our readers a successful and enjoyable New Year\u20142026!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At the start of the new year, it\u2019s a good moment to take a look back and list the &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":154191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[13126,14223,24853,26594,26595],"class_list":["post-154190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-breakfast-in-tallinn","tag-estonian-culture","tag-environment","tag-cleanest-country","tag-nude-beaches"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154197,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154190\/revisions\/154197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}