Onward to Estonia

We were up to say goodbye to Line and Jesper and then finished our packing. It was raining this morning so we decided to Uber to the ferry terminal. It was a good call as it was further than we thought. The ferry trip to Tallinn was 2.5 hours and there are approximately 8 sailings a day between Helsinki and Tallinn. They are vehicle ferries with cabins and we observed one family with children cycling onto the ship.

It was chaos boarding the ship as everyone was fighting for seats and we of course had our large bags with us which didn’t help. We initially secured seats in the main bar area and were quite surprised to see the number of people lining up for the signature cocktails at 10:45am. The other attraction on the ship was the very large duty free store, plenty of alcohol was ferried to the cars below.

We docked in Tallinn at 1:15pm and as the rain had stopped we decided to walk to our hotel in the old town. The first kilometre was smooth sailing and then we hit the cobblestones and the tour groups so the last 500m were more challenging. Our hotel room is compact but in a charming old building with wonky walls and creaky stairs.

Once we unpacked we decided to wander the old town, what a treasure. Every view is amazing and there are so many periods of architecture all mixed together. There were, as expected, massive numbers of tour groups off cruise ships and also an amber store on every corner. We got lost a few times but were not worried as it just gave us another view.

We had dinner in the old town hall square and then went walking. We discovered another section of the wall where we could walk on the outside and back in. The towers are so incredible with the massive wall linking them. On the way back we went past the church at the entrance near our hotel. It has one of the highest spires we have seen.Read more