Estonian Museum of Occupations Tallinn

This recommendation for a city break is in the once forbidden north of Europe... Visit TALLINN to enjoy the cobbled streets and distinctive merchants' houses of the Old Town... Fine affordable restaurants with English freely spoken in many places. You can learn something from Estonia's long occupation and how the country has come to celebrate …

DAY 1

The long weekend started on the 14th of Oktober on Weeze airport, heading to Tallinn. (tank you Ryanair for this opportunity) Both of us we were sleepy. We woke up at 4 o clock as Weeze airport is quite far away. And if we have to consider that we might to end up at the rush hour in the morning it's wise to leave early.
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... town, we visited a few more churches, but once again, we were not allowed to take photos !!! Instead, we headed over to the Museum of Occupations. It was kind of small, but it told the story from when the Russians invaded in 1940, it was interesting to ...

... in Tallinn. The pictures made it look quite magical and the real thing did not disappoint. We stumbled across a museum called "Estonian Museum of Occupations" and at the time I naively thought it sounded a little odd having a museum about jobs ...

... guess that comes form eons of occupation, the Russians or Soviets being the last in a long line of occupiers. [Check out the Museum of Occupations at www.okupatsioon.ee .]  The men were handsome, the young ones anyways....  hmmmm   As we ...

... in general as well but i felt bad that i was keeping her from work.  I left 2:00 to go to the Museum of Occupations and spent the next 3,5 hours atchig min documentaries about the 1st and 2nd Soviet and the German occupation of this country. If you ...

... potholed road to the Naval Museum, unfortunately it was closed too so only got to look at the old ships outside. I knew the Museum of Occupations was open since I went on Monday only to find it was closed, as are many museums in Tallinn. It is a small ...

... into the underground gallery on the opposite side of the square. From there we went to the Estonian Museum of Occupations. Due to the unluckily location of Estonia it was many times under occupation. The most recent history is that Estonia became an ...