I wanted to visit Estonia while we were here as Pauline had already been a couple of times and said it was very nice. Also, it’s interesting to visit other countries particularly if its only a couple of hours on a ferry, so I took the train to Helsinki and booked a guided tour for the next day. Helsinki is pretty cool also of course. I stayed at a cheap hotel about ten minutes walk from the station. The next day a nice man in a van picked me up and took a bunch of us to the ferry terminal to get on the 9:30 sailing to Tallinn.
This was the ferry, the Finlandia. Big ship, 2000 passengers and 600 carsLeaving HelsinkiArriving in Tallinn
We were met at the port by our guide and jumped in a van to the old town.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, 19th century Russian orthodox. The Lutheran St John’s church was more to my taste to be honest.View of the old town from the wallThis seagull amused me, he (she) was very persistent and could not be moved even though hundreds of people were taking their photo.The other side of the wallTown squareI loved this sausage dog seatThe town hallNote the dragons, drainage for the gutteringPutler is not popular with this guy! The Russian embassy was just around the corner and had many posters with bloody handed dictators on them. The tricky thing for Estonia is they have around 100000 Russian citizens living there.This little house was cuteEx soviet agricultural truck, now artwork, gradually turning to rust.The beer was excellent and I bought a book from the only English bookshop in Estonia just to encourage them, and also I haven’t read this one yet.Goats cheese salad was also very tasty.This horse was a patient horse. They seemed to treat him well I was happy to see.View of a square with more modern buildings I came across this in the duty free shop on the ship but I wasn’t game to buy it. I do like liquorice but maybe not with vodka!Helsinki the next morning.
This was a successful side trip which helped my confidence in travelling by myself as I’m used to always having Pauline with me on trips and was a bit nervous about organising myself. Also, what a lovely place Estonia is. The people were friendly, food and drinks were definitely up to standard and the weather was superb. Would definitely recommend!
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