Ulemiste Hotel Tallinn

... Hell Hunt. They served great sandwiches and soups, which hit the spot. After lunch we explored the Old Town seeing some of the sites there, including churches, buildings of significance and the medieval towers/walls. Early evening we enjoyed the Sauna and Jaccuzi bath before heading out for a meal at a Medieval themed restaurant called Olde Hansa. We were directed up to the top floor (3rd floor) by waiters in costume, lit only by candels, which was the same ...

For the third time in the Baltics (3 out of 3), we have trouble with our guesthouse on arrival. Fortunately, the issue is fairly minor, and we get some free breakfasts out of it!<br><br>Tallinn was a lovely little town, and much of the world seems to have learned this. The town square was packed with tourists, even as it rained. We really hadn't seen so ...

... vodkas, including some Estonian and other countries of origin. We are now &#8220;connoisseurs of vodka&#8221;, thanks to this experience! We even have a certificate to prove it.<br><br>The distillery museum made Steph think&#8230; If she wants to have a back up plan to her new career as a inlaid floor restorer, she is opening a small distillery (like the 277 vodka distilleries in Estonia as some point). It&#8217;s a fall back plan really during the off season for palace floor ...

... the city to show you the remnants of Russian rule; and a simple glass plaque outside the former KGB HQ, above the bricked-up basement windows where torture and execution were carried out, is chilling in its simplicity. Your imagination (and all the anti-Russian literature you have ever read) does the rest - very clever. There are other signs of cleverness too - the Baltic has been Estonia's fortune and misfortune, but a spectacularly ...

... give it any second thoughts. True, this edition was no luxury pack. Such a thing cost five times as much, but then again, what would I do with it? You don't insert the pack into your DVD player anyway. Half an hour later, richer for the Middle Earth adventures, and set back in terms of money much less than what I saw as its real value, I was in the street again. When some time later I again emerged onto Vabaduse Väljak, I wouldn't go the same way as the night before. I mean, even from ...

... protesters were shot by Russian czarist troops in 1905. Photos were taken. Across the road on the edge of the old town we visited an apotheke to finally have success in buying some cotton tips - apparently this great invention hasn't made the supermarkets here yet. (Success was finally achieved by the same method Kerry used yesterday to buy more elastoplast for blisters - producing one & raising eyebrows. There is significantly less English here than in Finland.) Some of the ...

... 19 yr old at info center. She s interested in folk music, but also classical. Plays piano, accordian and guitar. Hordes of guided tourists in the small Old City. Ruins the illusion. Many off cruise ships for just a quick tour of the city. by five PM most are gone and the old town is again charming. Friday night was invited by two young Dutch guys to join them for a few beers which turned out to be many. but had a great time, interesting conversation, laughs, friendship. To bed late.

... with more interesting touristic attractions to participate in. Two days were spent heading into different types of churches - both Russian Orthodox and Christian as well as getting my mother up the tight dark stairs of the old town wall which we then walked around. However the most wonderful thing was simply walking around, ducking into little allys and exploring the old town with no fixed idea of where we were heading ...

... you wouldn't get much of an experience there unless you were prepared to watch seven 30-minute long documentaries. <br><br>We wandered over to the train station for lunch. I had read that a cafeteria there served the cheapest hot lunches in town so I thought it would be good to try out a non-touristy place. It was incredibly cheap, but not good. <br><br>It was pretty eye-opening - we saw a senior dumpster-diving. An ...

Tallinn is the small but beautiful capital of the most northern Baltic state, Estonia. After formally re-establishing itself in 1991 Estonia has grown to become an important center of IT and Telecommunications technology in northern Europe. Its perhaps best know startup company was Skype, a service I have used frequently to keep in touch with my parents during this long trip. Tallinn is unique in that it is not only a flowering center of technology but ...