SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER - ESTONIA Bright and early start this morning with breakfast at 6:30am so that we could meet the 8:30am ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. Was a two and a half hour ferry trip. Again no real border crossing or passport check. From there it was a short stroll across the road to our hotel (yes - hotel finally - sheets and a bed and showers in the room!!). Was too early to check in so we put our bags in the left luggage room and then it was into town for our walking tour. Unlike much of Scandinavia, Tallinn has a distinct old town in what I think of as the ‘normal’ old town - old walls, towers still standing, cobbled streets, bit of a medieval feel to it, colourful old buildings.
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