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Review of holiday - Warning - stuff behind the cuts is LONG
Some general impressions of Tallinn:
Tallinn is a city of four smells - sweet lime blossom, fresh tar, blocked sewers and urine. Which smell you get depends on where you go in the city. The tourist areas are mostly flowery.
The old town is very pretty, and the prices of the restaurants are pretty much up with those at any other restaurant anywhere in Europe, i.e. £4 for the very cheapest main courses, going up to £20 for venison steak. Local dishes are rich, substantial, meaty and delicious, and leave you VERY full. Mulgi is nice. Sauerkraut is popular (yay!) and the little fried garlic bread pieces are delish.
When old Estonian ladies get really old, they don't go to care homes. They become museum curators.
The holiday itself:
Wednesday - left not as early as I'd feared, lots of sitting in a car down to Gatwick.
Found Gatwick hotel and were duly unimpressed - strong smell of stale cigarette smoke in spite of room being non-smoking. View out of window was of the (rusty and horifically ugly) air-conditioning units, complete with one item of female underwear which had presumably been flung from a window on some upper floor. Ironically, the air-con in our room barely worked. The TV remote didn't work at all, not that it mattered since the TV was tuned to a seemingly random variety of channels in no particular order and had extremely dodgy reception. Went for walk to escape room, and saw many wild rabbits. Many many. There was a sick one, so I went all gooey and felt sorry for it, but what can you do?
( Thursday/Friday - Arrival in Tallinn and investigation of Old Town )
Some general impressions of Tallinn:
Tallinn is a city of four smells - sweet lime blossom, fresh tar, blocked sewers and urine. Which smell you get depends on where you go in the city. The tourist areas are mostly flowery.
The old town is very pretty, and the prices of the restaurants are pretty much up with those at any other restaurant anywhere in Europe, i.e. £4 for the very cheapest main courses, going up to £20 for venison steak. Local dishes are rich, substantial, meaty and delicious, and leave you VERY full. Mulgi is nice. Sauerkraut is popular (yay!) and the little fried garlic bread pieces are delish.
When old Estonian ladies get really old, they don't go to care homes. They become museum curators.
The holiday itself:
Wednesday - left not as early as I'd feared, lots of sitting in a car down to Gatwick.
Found Gatwick hotel and were duly unimpressed - strong smell of stale cigarette smoke in spite of room being non-smoking. View out of window was of the (rusty and horifically ugly) air-conditioning units, complete with one item of female underwear which had presumably been flung from a window on some upper floor. Ironically, the air-con in our room barely worked. The TV remote didn't work at all, not that it mattered since the TV was tuned to a seemingly random variety of channels in no particular order and had extremely dodgy reception. Went for walk to escape room, and saw many wild rabbits. Many many. There was a sick one, so I went all gooey and felt sorry for it, but what can you do?
( Thursday/Friday - Arrival in Tallinn and investigation of Old Town )
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