Ron, 69, and Jaana, 59, met in the street in Tallinn, Estonia, when they were both looking for directions. They now live together in Australia
Jaana and Ron on Mount Wellington in Tasmania in 2015.n the summer of 2014, Ron travelled to Finland from his home in Sydney for a family reunion. “My brother had married a Finnish woman and they asked me to join a big get-together in Lapland. I’d been divorced since 2009, and I think they knew I was at a bit of a loose end,” he says. After he reached Helsinki, some of his in-laws decided to take him to Tallinn in Estonia, a ferry ride away.
“Afterwards, we went to sit on a terrace and chatted for three hours,” says Ron. “I was worried about my English not being good enough,” says Jaana, “but it felt so natural and easy to talk.” Jaana invited Ron to stay with her for the rest of his trip. “I was nervous because we’d only met for a few hours,” says Jaana. “But when I went to pick him up at the airport, I was just thinking, yes, this is it.” Over the next week and a half, she showed him the sights of the city. “We were really falling in love,” says Ron. For two years, they were a long-distance couple, regularly visiting each other’s home cities.
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