Company Party — Ida-Virumaa

Power is the first thing you lose in Ida-Virumaa. The old transformer at the manor cannot run the rig, the barn has single-phase to the door, and the backup generator that would solve it sits in Tallinn. Then come the roads — gravel you cannot reverse a three-tonne van down, forty kilometres to the nearest place that stocks the connector you need.

A company party in a rural hall or a restored estate is almost always better than the same event in a conference hotel. You just cannot rig it the way you rig a conference hotel, and the crew that pretends otherwise is the crew that arrives at five instead of nine and still runs out of time.