Tapas
Having found the sightsingbuss, we finally rode around town. It went really fast, so I almost disnt have time to photograph stuff - we just flew by. Eventhough the speed was a bit dissapointing, and the recorded voice quite poor it was nice nontheless. We saw a big concertarena, a angel streatching for the sky, a lovely beach, the real town, historical buildings and a little bit of everything in between. 
A piece of the city wall and watch tower plus castle.
After the tour we took a long stroll through Old Town, mostly on roads we havnt walked before which was nice. Its incredible how everything can be so old and new at the same time there - a old sunken house standing next to a gourgeous villa. Also, all the houses are build together! In Stockholm we have small alleys thet you barely can walk through everywhere, but in Tallin there are none! Everything is puzzled together, we even saw a small church - old and concrete - built into a mordern towerblock - made of steel and big glas windows. Its so uique.
This super old and deterioated building lay almost next to the one on the picture underneath, which makes no sense whatsoever.
The little church right there in IN the house above. Odd.
Anyways, we walked back to Cafe Mademoiselle and had lunch at its neighbour (they chared their outside dinette) Tapas Bar & Rasturant. I had salmon with creamy rice and it was so good! Seriously among the best things I´ve ever eaten. Unfourtunaly I ate it quickly, so that delicous course was over in no time. My mom and dad had sallad which apparently was real good too. My sister ate some meet with garlic potato, and eventhough she had to return it once since she wanted it raw, not well done, she loved it too. The best thing I must say, was the garlic bread we ordered in - it was dark bread and the garlic was everywhere, like if it was fried in it. Not like normal garlic bread, but onehundred times better. It was amazing! So plus points to Tapas!
Jummi!
I totally recomend this place to you :)
Thanks Estonia for a great time! :)
Me and Malin <3
Beautiful sunset, goodnight
Going home tonight
I love the fact that Tallink Spa Hotel has this free-to-use computer that Im currently writing from. I´ve been able to write this, check my mail and answer all of my friend Matildas facebook messages (she´s an incredible person who writes one entry to me every day, for this year). Now Im standing here wainting for the Sightseeng Bus.
Today I´ve allready had time for some bathing and smoothies, for maybe one and a half hour before getting up to pack my things and getting ready to leave. I´ve also had a massage, which could be found in a underground lounge with brown glittery walls and soothing music. It vas really cosy. I even had a backleg massage, out of misstake as the massageour read wrong - wich Im only happy about. Massage is a strange thing - you have to practically get naked and lie on a bed when a stranger touches you. Odd concept, but quite nice nontheless if you can get pass the akwardness. I figure it would be even more uncomfortable with someone you know doing it...
Anyway, now Im waiting for the Sightsing Bus, then theres lunch, and then we have five hours to pass before boarding the Tallink Ferry. Checking out Old Town again I guess. Wish me good luck for my trip home, and hopfully the shiop will keep afloat. But I´ll be outide by the emergenzy boats just in case.
Blue domes
With another warm day ahead of us, we started with a morning by the pool. From the inside are, you could swim outside to a sundeck. There, we lay for about two hours, having time for two smothies and some bubbelbathing inbetween. My mom, sister and I tried to book som massage, but it didnt have what we wanted, there seem to be a glatch between their offerings and what the hotels website says. But I´ve booked a hole-body massage for tomorrow :)
We started our thuresday afternoon by searching for the sightseeing busses, with no luck. Back at the hotel I found a broshure, which mom claimed had not been there before - talk about wasted time. So we are saving tourisbusses for tomorrow after we have checked-out. Instead we went to the other thing I wanted to see, a ortodox church in Russian style. It was beautiful with its blue domes. It took quite a walk to locate it, apparently my father isnt that skilled of a map reader, but at last we where there. It was named Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and is from 1900. It took up my entire sight, and I couldn even get a photo at the entire buliding. I didnt find a way inside, eventhough I really wanted to checkt that out, but it didnt matter that much because the outside was mangestetic by itself.
Hungry as we were, we sat down at the first place we could find, which happended to be one at Town Square - bad idea it turned out as the food was unimpressive and the sevice very poor. So quickly after finishing our meal (and leaving no tips) we went to find a place to drink some cofee and relax a little.
At Pikk we found a cute cafe called Cafe Madmoiselle and they even had kokko to my delight (I dont drink cofee). The cafe had a cute inner garden which was absolutly adorable and calm. I loved it. The also had a resturant which I hope we will return to for lunch tomorrow. The coolest thing about the cafe was the bathroom - it was huge and had a one meter wide hole stretching down three meters! Ofcourse it was glass above it, but it was still scary as hell and gave me quite the shock - but still, soo cool!
The Café
Malin found her self a happy cup of coffee.
Me and Malin
The terrifying hole! It was deeper than it looks, actually.
Malin is so much braver than me - I didnt even dare touching it.
Walking home again, I looked up at a church we pased probably seven times by now and finally realized how tall it was. I read at the information outside that it was the highest bulding in the world for 150 years! Things like that are cool to see. Speaking of new discoveries, my father and I walked up a gigant stair case next to our hotel today. It is build out of stone and consists of a uncontable numbers of steps up two huge starcases. It looks like a theater or atletics studio, though forgotten in time. My father guessed it was built by the Russians when they occupied Estonia as a atempt to prove how cool and mighty they could be, and thats why the eastonians have let it cruble down and become mearly a place for youths to hang when theres nowhere else to go. Nomatter what, it is one gigantic piece of stone, beacuse when you reace the top, the other side is just the same, only this time you get to go down instead.
Super high Oleviste Church.
The wasted building..
The Café
Malin found her self a happy cup of coffee.
Me and Malin
The terrifying hole! It was deeper than it looks, actually.
Malin is so much braver than me - I didnt even dare touching it.
Walking home again, I looked up at a church we pased probably seven times by now and finally realized how tall it was. I read at the information outside that it was the highest bulding in the world for 150 years! Things like that are cool to see. Speaking of new discoveries, my father and I walked up a gigant stair case next to our hotel today. It is build out of stone and consists of a uncontable numbers of steps up two huge starcases. It looks like a theater or atletics studio, though forgotten in time. My father guessed it was built by the Russians when they occupied Estonia as a atempt to prove how cool and mighty they could be, and thats why the eastonians have let it cruble down and become mearly a place for youths to hang when theres nowhere else to go. Nomatter what, it is one gigantic piece of stone, beacuse when you reace the top, the other side is just the same, only this time you get to go down instead.
Super high Oleviste Church.
The wasted building..
My feets are getting tierd by now, having walked across town nearly six times, and back and forward a little more, plus everything is cobblestone! My mind is also compleatly overloaded, there is things to see everywhere! Everything is so beautiful and unique, old mixed with new, bricks meeting in cornders and colors intertwining. Its gougeos! My camera is almost up in a thosand photos by now, so on could probably recreate the city from them. Now, its time for a night visit in the pool with warmth bubbles and smothies, and my backpack of family.
The city of knitted cardigans
Hello!
Something.. An Angel and a Cross me and my sister found
Seriously shoes made out of wool!
On our way to the square we passed a cute shop with knitted wool cardigans/jackets, and I fell in love with them. For long, I´ve been looking for a knitted shirt, but theyre really hard to find. But here it was, a cute blue one with rainders. Unfortunaly, it was to short in the arms and fit, but then I spotted a grey one which was almost perfect! Ill show a picture when Im home by my computer. I didnt buy it at first, saying Ill come back since we was still heading in to Town Square. On our way back to the hotel we walked along the wall surrounding some of the city, I found more knitted stuff. There was another awsome coat in grey, which I didnt buybecause of its impractialness when wearing my backpack, but Im still a bit inlove with it. Also I found a cap with a built-in scarf which was adorable, to bad I hate caps becuse otherwise, I totally loved it. I bought some mittens though - had to; they were blue and pink! Anyway, after beeing around town, I came back to that knitted wool-shop and the girl looked at me and said "Youre back!" Then she took down the cardigan I´ve had my eyes one and asked if I had choosen size yet. Stuff like that makes me so happy :) By the way, I also found a couple of cute mittens with ladybugs - one of my favorite animals - but I never bough them.
Me and Malin at the Olde Hansa.
Our hostesess sefing us food out of clay bowls.
Even the toilets where in medeveial style (hiding a real toitlet underneath).
The menu My food
We ended our evening on the fifth floor of the hotel, drinking tea and Irish Coffee. I got a teapot, with enough to give me four cops - talk about worth the money! They played cozy lounge-music, and then "Blackbird" came on, and I barely resisted the urge to jump up and sing along! It wasnt as good and Kurts version in Glee though, but still - its Kurts emotionall ballad and its so cute. Beeing on the top floor, you could look out over the city through panoroma windows, and my mom and I decided where to go tomorrow. There is something looking like a mosque in the horizon and we are hoping we can find a tourist buss to take us there.
So today I spend going around in the Old City of Tallin. We walked along a street called Pikk down to Old Town Square, which was crowded with people selling cute stuff. Looking for jewelerys, me and my sister found one euro and bought a cute butterknife with carved out hearts for it.
Something.. An Angel and a Cross me and my sister found
Seriously shoes made out of wool!
On our way to the square we passed a cute shop with knitted wool cardigans/jackets, and I fell in love with them. For long, I´ve been looking for a knitted shirt, but theyre really hard to find. But here it was, a cute blue one with rainders. Unfortunaly, it was to short in the arms and fit, but then I spotted a grey one which was almost perfect! Ill show a picture when Im home by my computer. I didnt buy it at first, saying Ill come back since we was still heading in to Town Square. On our way back to the hotel we walked along the wall surrounding some of the city, I found more knitted stuff. There was another awsome coat in grey, which I didnt buybecause of its impractialness when wearing my backpack, but Im still a bit inlove with it. Also I found a cap with a built-in scarf which was adorable, to bad I hate caps becuse otherwise, I totally loved it. I bought some mittens though - had to; they were blue and pink! Anyway, after beeing around town, I came back to that knitted wool-shop and the girl looked at me and said "Youre back!" Then she took down the cardigan I´ve had my eyes one and asked if I had choosen size yet. Stuff like that makes me so happy :) By the way, I also found a couple of cute mittens with ladybugs - one of my favorite animals - but I never bough them.
Coming back from Town, we checked in and went to the spa - big swimingpools and a bar IN the pool! You litterary sat in the pool and bar at the same time which was really cool! Their Strawberry/Mango Smothie was great! In the Spa they also had saunas, like five diffrent kinds (Åre in Sweden have a fem more and better, but this was still cool), including a Finish Sauna (80C!), a Steem Sauna (You couldnt see anything in there), and a Hamam (personal favorite, with a big circular thing in the middle where hot water gathered and you could pracically fall asleep).
The Spa area from 5th floor:
The Spa area from 5th floor:
We had dinner at a really cool resturand cole to Town Square - all medieval! The hostesses wore long medieveal dresses and pointy leather shoes, and the purely medieval food was served in clay cups. There was even a small group preforming medevial songs. Our hostesses was soo cute, her english accent adorable and charming! Picture to come!
Me and Malin at the Olde Hansa.
Our hostesess sefing us food out of clay bowls.
Even the toilets where in medeveial style (hiding a real toitlet underneath).
The menu My food
We ended our evening on the fifth floor of the hotel, drinking tea and Irish Coffee. I got a teapot, with enough to give me four cops - talk about worth the money! They played cozy lounge-music, and then "Blackbird" came on, and I barely resisted the urge to jump up and sing along! It wasnt as good and Kurts version in Glee though, but still - its Kurts emotionall ballad and its so cute. Beeing on the top floor, you could look out over the city through panoroma windows, and my mom and I decided where to go tomorrow. There is something looking like a mosque in the horizon and we are hoping we can find a tourist buss to take us there.
Untill then, Ill go to bed and read Carrie Vaughns Kitty-novel! (The best author ever, if youre intrested!)
Nobody knows where its at
Hello Reader! Now Im in Estonia! Cool huh?!
The ferrry wasnt that bad, it was even cosy. I sat outside on deck a lot, feeling the wind in my hair and watching the water drift by. The rescue boats hanged just above my head so I feel real secure right there. I must say, the best thing was the maräng cake! It was incredibe tasty, but when I went back to it, there was nothing left - so on my way back Ill grab alot from the start. Bytheway, Iv already taken more than 300 pictures - mostly the sea and the sunset - it was gourgeous.
I found there adorable ducks in one of the onboard stores:
Day-dream duck World-traveling duck
Dizzy-dot duck
Im currently in the hotel lobby, waiting for check-in-time. But thats a while left, so well probaly go out for some city sightsing. Allreday, the city looks cute - it mixes new with old, but in a good way. Ill get back when Ive seen more or it, or has had a time to check out the spa part.
I found there adorable ducks in one of the onboard stores:
Day-dream duck World-traveling duck
Dizzy-dot duck
Im currently in the hotel lobby, waiting for check-in-time. But thats a while left, so well probaly go out for some city sightsing. Allreday, the city looks cute - it mixes new with old, but in a good way. Ill get back when Ive seen more or it, or has had a time to check out the spa part.
Se you soon! <3
(title is from a part out of Kerlis songs, when she mentiones her home land Estonia)
Fast ideas, fast travel
Hello reader!
With less then two days notice, Im leaving for Tallin this afternoon. My family and I have been trying to get away for Paris, Mallorca or any other exiting destination this summer. We never can agree though since Im set on expericing culture, nature and doing stuff whereas my dad strongly thinks vaccation is lying on a beach for five days straight. So, no matter how mush we try, we never seem to agree, and if we does, something else gets in the way. But now, with such a short notice, it was only to take it or leave it. We choose to take it :)
From what I´ve read and heard, Tallin is a gourgeos city, quite small though, but worth it nontheless. I love culture and old buildings, and Tallin seem to be full of those! This is the chance for me and my camera to go crazy, but in a sensible way of course. More than walking around and eating ice cream in the killer-heat, we will also spend a lot of time on the hotel. It happens to be a hotel with spa; nice pools and massage, which we are all set to try out. Eventhough Im abnormaly ticklish, I somhow like massage, its really relaxing.
So even with short notice, and stressed out packing, I think this will be a great traveling experience. The only thing I fear right now, is the trip there - we´re going by boat. I hate ferrys, thy´re freaking me out! Im so scared of drowning, and evern more, drowing while trapped, thats it is ridiculous. (And I havent even finished Titanic) I have nothing against standing on the top deck and watching the water foam and rush by, but going down, under deck is freaking me out. To survive, I have my books which I can dive down in and forget the fact that im on the ferry.
Wish me good luck, and Ill get back when I´ve seen a bit of Tallin!
With less then two days notice, Im leaving for Tallin this afternoon. My family and I have been trying to get away for Paris, Mallorca or any other exiting destination this summer. We never can agree though since Im set on expericing culture, nature and doing stuff whereas my dad strongly thinks vaccation is lying on a beach for five days straight. So, no matter how mush we try, we never seem to agree, and if we does, something else gets in the way. But now, with such a short notice, it was only to take it or leave it. We choose to take it :)
From what I´ve read and heard, Tallin is a gourgeos city, quite small though, but worth it nontheless. I love culture and old buildings, and Tallin seem to be full of those! This is the chance for me and my camera to go crazy, but in a sensible way of course. More than walking around and eating ice cream in the killer-heat, we will also spend a lot of time on the hotel. It happens to be a hotel with spa; nice pools and massage, which we are all set to try out. Eventhough Im abnormaly ticklish, I somhow like massage, its really relaxing.
So even with short notice, and stressed out packing, I think this will be a great traveling experience. The only thing I fear right now, is the trip there - we´re going by boat. I hate ferrys, thy´re freaking me out! Im so scared of drowning, and evern more, drowing while trapped, thats it is ridiculous. (And I havent even finished Titanic) I have nothing against standing on the top deck and watching the water foam and rush by, but going down, under deck is freaking me out. To survive, I have my books which I can dive down in and forget the fact that im on the ferry.
Wish me good luck, and Ill get back when I´ve seen a bit of Tallin!
