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Hello all.. We are just coming to the end of four days in the beautiful capital of Estonia - Tallin. a magical medieval walled city on the Baltic Sea full of 13-17 century buildings, churches and towers. We have enjoyed just wondering around taking in the sights and today had a few hours at the beach worshipping the northern sun! Not much to tell as we have been just indulging in hot chocolates, fine European pasteries, Estonian food (not the traditional pig's ears!) and beer! We will try and put a couple of photos on this one to give you [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to the Eastern Bloc Estonia, where is Estonia? I’m sure the question has passed through many lips since hearing or seeing that we were taking a brief stop in Tallinn, the capital of the ex-Eastern Bloc country. While not a country or city that is commonly on anyone’s mind in America, this convenient port city has become one of the more common stops for Baltic cruises. It seems anyone heading to St. Petersburg or Helsinki on one of those behemoth cruise ships has stopped here for at least an hour or two. “So what’s the deal with Estonia?” you [View Full Entry]

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Dix-huit heures en autobus c’est long, longtemps. Surtout quand le trajet commence avec la projection en rafale de 2-3 comédies estoniennes à la place d’un super film américain totalement superficiel tel Rambo ou Terminator 2. Je vous confirme, je n’ai rien compris du film, mais c’est certainement dans le top des plus mauvaises productions de l’histoire. Entre deux scènes poches, l’autobus freine brusquement m’indiquant que quelque chose ne vas pas. Le chauffeur de l’autobus agrippe un homme équipé d’une moustache de champion, définitivement un Estonien, et ils sortent de l’autobus. S’en suis une engueulade entremèlée de bousculades, le tout avec la [View Full Entry]

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What do crazy wigs, blokes dressed up in cow suits, bungy jumping, traditional dancing, choral singing, hark rock, sausages and techno music have in common? Beer. Yes in Estonia all of these sometime complimentary, sometimes contradictory forces were brought together under the uniting and liberating force of beer, resulting in the Tallinn beer festival. One could say that it was a case of expert organisational skills that we timed our visit to Tallinn with the beer festival, but rather it was by sheer luck that we discovered that there was a festival on and that we would be there at the [View Full Entry]

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When Lindsay and I were planning our trip this summer, we were always keeping an eye out for cheap budget flights. One great deal that we found was a flight on Easyjet from Berlin to Tallinn, Estonia. We also found a flight from Helsinki (a short ferry ride across the Baltic Sea from Tallinn) back to Cologne, Germany. It turns out the cost of the two budget flights plus the ferry was comparable to the cost of train tickets from Berlin to Cologne. So, we thought why not, and so we went. Tallinn was a different city than we have [View Full Entry]

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Retrieving 30 min in Tallinn harbor........ Some photos which you can make from ferry Since next year Estonia (as well as some other country) will be included in Schengen area, that means that I can visit it normal way, to see Bronze Soldier and other historical places.. Let's see..... [View Full Entry]

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Tallinn in Twenty Photos Europe » Estonia » Tallinn By AirMail June 19th 2007 Josh & AliciaPhotos from our day trip to Tallinn's Old City. We had never previously planned to come here, until we saw the ferry trip advertised in a Finnish tourist brochure. In many ways this was the Europe we had been searching for over the last 3 months. The place was so original, untarnished, and just plain beautiful we almost felt as though had traveled back in time. It was also ironic (and a great surprise) that we ended up here on our last day in Europe. We can't think [View Full Entry]

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Spent this week on a whistlestop tour of the Baltic states, 2 days each in Vilnius (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia) and Tallinn (Estonia) with long bus journeys between them. Very interesting places - surprised by the diversity between the three capitals. Vilnius isn't very touristy (not a very picturesque town), Riga has a very cool Old Town filled with old churches and Art Nouveau buildings and Tallinn looks superb - full of medieval towers, cobbled streets etc. Nice cool sea breeze here too. There's a lot of renovation going on in all three and frankly a lot more needed, but I [View Full Entry]

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Upon discovering that Tallinn, which hosts one of the best preserved "Old Town" sectors in northern Europe, was only a five hour bus ride from Rīga, I decided to pay Estonia's capital city a visit... Tuesday 29 May Upon arrival in Tallinn I was thrilled to find that its Old Town did indeed lived up to its reputation... I got off the bus and walked through the tower gates into Old Town to find my hostel. It wasn't that easy... true to its medieval layout, the centre has a numerous amount of narrow cobbled streets leading every which-way, complete with [View Full Entry]

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