We booked a room online, with the prime requirements being a place to park and walking distance to the old town. And guess what! We're staying in a Soviet-style apartment block!
It's the ugliest building on the block, and a small portion of it has been turned into about 5 rooms for tourists. Our room is small, but recently renovated with a tiny bathroom, a fridge and a small microwave. It meets our needs.
We walked downtown and ate dinner at the Reval Cafe on the edge of the Old Town,
which has turned out to be our go to place in Tallinn, i.e. we went back there once again in our 2-night stay.
Back for kohvi, kook and wifi, all the essentials. That's candlewax dripping down the wall behind Leo.
We had heard that Tallinn would be full of drunken Brits who catch cheap flights for the weekend, but this rainy Friday was pretty quiet. We did run into one stag party of very polite young, not very drunk (yet) Estonians. The groom-to-be had a list he had to accomplish, but I refused to give him "a lady's sock." Hey, they were my favourite quick-dry travelling socks!
Tallinn's Old Town is huge and walled with 27 of the original 45 towers still standing.
So far, Estonia looks to be more prosperous than Latvia with fewer derelict buildings and more modern buildings.
No we have to learn how to say Hello and Thank You in a new language.
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