Tallin, Estonia, a 15 de octubre del 2008. Saludes: Mando saludos a todo mundo en este mi ultimo dia en Estonia, que para variar durante toda mi estancia estuvo nublado y ventoso y ahora que me voy amanecio el sol brillando a todo lo que da... Ni modo... En la noche salgo en autobus para Lituania y asi me ahorrare una noche de hospedaje (con las puntadas de los banqueros y politicos en el D.F. pues ya me devaluaron el peso en plena primer semana vacacional, asi que a ahorrar)... Fueron 4 dias en Tallin, y puedo comentarles lo siguiente: * [View Full Entry]

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Roxie went on a tour of “Old Town (cobblestone streets and lots of hills),” while Roger rested and Judy & I took a shuttle to “Old Town” and walked around on our own. As we got off the bus and walked to the street we needed to turn on I fell over a semi-circle rock. My left knee is bruised up pretty good, but other than that I’m fine. We were approached by a young lady offering samples of candied/flavored/smoked nuts and asked if we wanted to try one. It was still early in the morning so we both said, “no [View Full Entry]

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We are determined to see one national park in every country we visit, so today we headed off to Lahemaa National Park. Looking at the guide, it seemed we could use any of three towns as a base, all of which were on the same busline: Käsmu, an old captains’ village; Võsu, a popular beach town; and Altja, a tiny fishing village at the end of the line that has a swing on a hill. (Apparently swings are a thing of high sport in Estonia.) Turned off by beachgoers and intrigued by swings, we checked the schedule for Altja. Five hours [View Full Entry]

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hopefully this time things will get rolling - they are banked up here! - and after complaining a bit to the webmaster and them saying it might be up the upload speed - hey, this is E-stonia maaan - and these are specially created with another camera small 100kb or so files, not 3 mb monsters - at last the plug/blockage appears to have been pulled - enjoy - this is the end of Tallinn - can we move on people - that was like days ago! [View Full Entry]

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Ah, our first full day in Tallinn! The beginning of this was marked by the best thing we’d seen in a while -- the inside of our eyelids. We slept like champs. We slept like we hadn’t seen a bed in over 36 hours which, as we calculated, was approximately true. After waking up and having a leisurely breakfast -- a poor man’s version of what the Danes call smørrebrød (dense bread, Edam, and some sliced ham was what we could procure at the store), yogurt, and coffee -- we left the apartment at the crack of 11 AM to make [View Full Entry]

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After returning to Arlanda airport in Stockholm, we breezed our way back through security (have I mentioned how much less painful it is to travel through Europe?) at the international terminal and perused the duty-free store, picking up [url=http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/index.php/url_indprod/xlc_2185/Mentos%20Lakrits%20%281%20roll%29.html]tasty candy morsels. Ambling toward our gate for the ARN --> TLL flight, we started to experience a sense of deja-vu. We go [View Full Entry]

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photos seem difficult to add sometimes - so map only here - central Tallinn - the green area to left is labelled Toom park - in Estonian its Toompea - where all the important things like the Parliament and a couple of very interesting churches are - Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (still trying to upload pix of those) and that of St Mary - which is completely different - lovely organ which was playing when I visited - and very involved and elaborate coats of arms all around the walls [View Full Entry]

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OK folks - in Tallinn and this day 3 and I leave tomorrow - to go somewhere - better have a read and work out where that is going to be I expect! as I have been so slack in getting myself organised to "do the sights" I had to book an extra nite (but its very nice here anyway of course - medieval city blah blah) in the St Olav's hotel (more on that later) on the net via Expedia-AU as it is way cheaper than paying direct here - I paid around 750 E Kroons - local rate is [View Full Entry]

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tie dye? no hippies really, just running out of titles for these things. This is my 4th night in Tallinn - and I have not seen a lot really as too slow to get going and so forth - knowing that it is not dark til 10pm really means that you can justify (sort of) not getting out of the hotel room til 3pm (like today) - but I was updating my photo blog Mum, gimme a break. well another photoblog update, now that I have solved the technical problem, and can take suitably small files separately to upload to keep [View Full Entry]

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Tallinn, Estonia Yippee!!!! Marion and John are onboard. And the luggage is here too. Once they settled in, we left to explore Tallinn. The city has been an important commercial port throughout its long history. It is located fifty miles from Helsinki, Finland and many Finns come across by ferry to party and pick up cheap liquor. Tonight, Madonna will be performing so we expect to see Madonna fans as we tour. We board a Hop-on-Hop off bus, HOHO, and ride through the modern lower town. The weather is sunny and Tallinn sparkles. The real gem is the Upper Town, an [View Full Entry]

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