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Statue and fountain in Town Hall Square
Stepping up in Estonia

July 26th 2016
<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day 185 Thursday 21st July 2016 – Athens to Tallinn Up at 4.15am for our flight today and after 185 days on the road we now work like clockwork in getting ourselves ready. Packed and checking out before we needed to but our taxi was already there so things were looking good. The hotel even prepared us a packaged breakfast ... read more
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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 le... ... read more
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30th July 2016

Awww...
I love this statue in the fountain, but now I can't get Singin' in the Rain out of head... I don't know much about Estonia, so I really enjoyed this blog. Day 190 - pretty impressive trip :)
30th July 2016

Singing in the rain
Funny enough we are in Riga at the moment and was sitting in a bar and it started to rain and a guy playing on a piano started to play that song and we lovelingly looked at each other and thought "God we are in the wrong bar". The statue has some ultra soppy story about lovers kissing for the first time and wanting it to last forever and that's what they got. Still not sure myself if being frozen in time is a good thing, but it is a FAB fountain.

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