View of the Old Town, Tallinn View of the Old Town, Tallinn

View of the Old Town, Tallinn

The long climb to the top of the tower of St Olaf's Church gave some rewarding views of the Old Town.


From: Europe » Estonia » Tallinn

Estonian  Flag After centuries of Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian rule, Estonia attained independence in 1918. Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940, it regained its freedom in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since the last Russian troops l... [read more]
Blog: The Forbidden City
Date: April 21st 2006

Tallinn was seemingly unreachable for me. Something always prevented me from getting there. Eventually I reached it, albeit 4th time lucky. In the past 2 weeks I have tried 3 times to get to Tallinn and have failed for each of those 3 times. The first time was the clostest of the 3 as I and 2 friends actually went to Helsinki in order to get the ferry to Tallinn. However, when we got there we hear ... read more




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