Tallinn, Estonia September 2002.

Olde Hansa is a popular restuarant, and the service is great. The menus offered a variety of traditional dishes, including wild boar and bear, along with special beers and wines. Luckily they also had menus in English, and the waitresses speak English too (in fact alsmost everywhere we went). We opt for Cinnamon beers and meat dishes with a huge selection of vegetables and other interesting things. The waitress explains what everything on the plates were before we ate! It was delicious.

One of the defence towers (left), and a woman in traditional dress (right)

Afterwards we write out our postcards and find a big orange coloured post box to put them in. All around were a lot of signs for 'Alkohol' and 24hour drinking dens, Karolina has to take photographs. We then buy some cheap tobacco from one of the kiosks. Smoking must be cheaper than eating in Tallinn, the prices were just ridiculously low compared with the UK. A packet of 20 cost only about 10 EEK (6 SEK), less than 50p in UK money.

Boot shaped pipe (left), and interesting street (right)

Karolina takes control of the camera once more and goes about photographing Trams, Lada's and buildings. We also see what appears to be a sculpture of oil drums in the shape of a chair, which a group of local young boys are playing on. Luckily they make interesting poses, and shout things in Estonian. Then alas, it's almost time to get back onboard the ferry.

Contrasting buildings in Tallinn

We take a final look at the city of Tallinn, and recap on the things we have done, the people we have met, and the hours we have enjoyed. We haven't seen everything, we ignored the maps and the brouchures, but it was a great visit, and surely a place to come back to again.

Electric bus and Tallinn trams

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