Boat Tripping (road tripping...get it?)

Last week I did something traditionally finnish with my mum: we took a ferry to Tallinn (Estonia) and looked around the Old Town a bit. I've never been before and I really liked it! I love old buildings and the feel of old times.



The Old Town of Tallinn is really beautiful! Unfortunately a lot of it is in a rather bad condition and in need of repair. We were happy to see that they are repairing some of the old churches so I guess there's hope that it won't all just crumble into pieces.


I really liked the building on the right, even if it's probably not historical in any way. But it's lime green!:)

This is a part of the old defence wall surrounding the town. It said in a sign that the king ordered the building of these walls in the 14th century to protect the town from the attacks of pagans. We actually went inside and visited this bit of the wall including the towers. The one on the left is called the nun tower. The stairs looked pretty much like this:


And yes, they were as steep and dark and scary as they look! My thighs were aching after climbing up and down the steps. Those medieval people must have been pretty fit.

On the left is myself in the balcony of the defence wall. I loved that place!

And on the right a lovely cup of elixir of life in a cafe (it's earl gray in case you didn't know).

I actually fancy a cup right now, mmm:)

I really enjoyed myself. I always thought that Tallinn would just be a bunch of Finns behaving like idiots, but actually we didn't see any of that. Instead we saw a gorgeous sunset at the sea: