Tallinn: A gem of a place

September 18, 2013

I'm thinking of printing this as a postcard

After a staggeringly beautiful sunrise at the beach I gathered myself to push on to the capital city of Tallinn. There were some light showers in the air but that was okay because the benches in Estonia come with umbrellas:

For a flat country, Estonia comes up with some really special nature. More points on the awesomeness scale awarded here

On to Tallinn. I hadn't been too sure that I wanted to come here initially because this wasn't the most direct route towards Latvia and my onward journey, but finally I decided to visit, and I was glad that I did. The old town is a real gem of a place, on a hill with narrow sloping streets and quaint old buildings and churches galore. The old walls of the town are in unusually good shape and everything was just really rather lovely. Here are some pictures:

On my way into Tallinn, looking toward the city behind the cruise ships. I loved all the little rock islands with seagulls and ducks and ravens occupying them.

There was some sort of a competition to design artistic gardens on small plots in a park. It was a really great use of the space. Behind you see part of the city walls.

High fashion on the streets of old Tallinn

A self-portrait, just in case you were forgetting what I looked like

Today's ride: 82 km (51 miles)
Total: 5,978 km (3,712 miles)

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