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Brigadoon on the Baltic

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Kuressaare Bishop's Castle on Saaremaa, which has a collection of torture devices dating to the Middle Ages. (Edina van der Wyck)
The mother-daughter pair Margit (left) and Kati Kääramees, who run the Mäeotsa Talu farmstay on Hiiumaa. (Edina van der Wyck)
Freshly shorn wool at Hiiumaa's Mäeotsa Talu farmstay. (Edina van der Wyck)
The ferry landing on Hiiumaa. (Edina van der Wyck)
Friends Pirkko (left) and Mirja welcome guests at Pärdi Talu B&B in the village of Koguva, on the western edge of Muhu. (Edina van der Wyck)
Paintings of traditional Muhu garb at Pärdi Talu B&B. (Edina van der Wyck)
An afternoon picnic at Lümanda Söögimaja, a farmhouse restaurant on Saaremaa. (Edina van der Wyck)
A rustic cottage in Saaremaa's wild countryside. (Edina van der Wyck)
A master bedroom in the 18th-century log farmhouse that's part of Muhu's Pädaste Manor inn. (Edina van der Wyck)
Estonian sauna staples: purifying honey, salt, and birch bundles, at Pädaste Manor's spa on Muhu. (Edina van der Wyck)
Pädaste Manor, overlooking a bay teeming with swans, geese, and cranes. (Edina van der Wyck)
The family-run Kalakohvik, a small seafood restaurant on Muhu. (Edina van der Wyck)
Old flour windmills on the northern coast of Saaremaa. (Edina van der Wyck)