Our memories of Tallinn - Playboy advertisements, old buildings, casinos on every corner, lots of souvenir and handicraft stores, strip clubs, cobbled streets, very fancy cars (Porsche, Audi, Hummers), little old ladies selling knitted products, amber jewellery... Total contrasts everywhere. It was a beautiful city and interesting. After a wonderful break in the UK with my sister and brotherinlaw, and friends in London, it was time to get travelling again. It was much harder to get going after so much nice company, food and accommodation, but it was time to go. And we have the benefit of knowing we are going back. We flew to Helsinki and then caught a ferry over to Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. The ferry was like something out of the fifties. It was set up like a cruise ship
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