Tallinn has surprised me more than Stockholm and Oslo because of its mix of old and new!! A fascinating city to say the least. The old city is beautiful and historic with amazing structures that have been around for centuries and survived two world wars!! This speaks volume about the solid construction methods they used in those days.. I spent a lot of time roaming around the streets of the old city today, what a place I say! It is commercialized now for good reason, to make money from tourism and hopefully maintain the structures for future generations! That is the hope at least … greed is also part of that but that is the century we live in: a century of greed and wars!!! This is not a political blog so let me stick to my vacation ok!! After the old city, I wondered into the new modern city and walked everywhere all the way to the port and bus station! I was on a mission of course, buy tickets for a ferry ride to Helsinki Finland tomorrow and a bus ticket to Riga Latvia the day after tomorrow, before doing this I extended my hotel reservation here in Tallinn until Friday to allow me to do these day trips … I find my hotel to be nice and clean with awesome buffet breakfast and reasonable price… also Tallinn is between Riga and Helsinki so all in all a win-win !!
Here are some pictures from today … enjoy!!
