Company Summer Days — Ida-Virumaa

Load-in happens before the guests wake up, which means the van leaves Tallinn while it is still dark. Most venues in Ida-Virumaa sit thirty minutes past the last reliable petrol station, down a road the GPS loses halfway.

The schedule writes itself backwards from the first speech. Sound check, furniture reset, lunch for seventy, a rig hung in a barn with no truss points — all of that takes longer when the nearest hardware shop is an hour away and the power comes from a generator you brought. Summer days run on daylight, and the daylight here is long, but the drive is not optional and it sets the call time for everything else.