May 30
Tallinn
[Continuing our trek, going down, down to Lower Town . . . ]
[Don’t look if you’re acrophobic . . . ]
[About midway down, there’s this door . . . ]
[A stairway gate between Upper and Lower Towns . . . ]
[Looking back up at whence we started . . . ]
[Still trending downward . . . ]
[St. Nicholas . . . ]
[And bottom in Lower Town . . . ]
[Unique public transportation (which we will partake of later) . . . ]
[Apartments . . . ]
[Ahhhh, my favorite kind of street – just follow your nose . . . ]
[Well, preferably wines . . . ]
[An Estonian toast?]
[Now we’re getting down to where the action is . . . ]
[Coming to you live from Town Hall Square, Old Town, the celebration of summer festival. Live music and dancing and general frivolity . . . ]
[Our guide is releasing us to our own devices, just don’t get in any trouble!]
[A “wine library” is a “wine library” anywhere in the world . . . ]
[Our group, with advice from our guide, begins looking for fine luncheon dining . . . ]
[Well, I think we’ll want to stay where the action is . . . ]
[There were an amazing number of performers and performances over this multi-day event . . . ]
[We’ll meet up again in a couple of hours . . . ]
[Remember, we’re 1D . . . ]
[The Super ponders lunch places . . . ]
[Looks fun?]
[But let’s stay out on the square so we can watch the goings on . . . ]
[OK, we’ll take this table – decent view of the stage . . . ]
[The Super plots our plot . . . ]
[Oh boy, pizza pie!!!]
[The Estonian national dish – well, at least for our purposes . . . ]
[Unfortunately, the camera auto-focused on the blanket . . . ]
[When I was trying to capture the “fun brunette” at the neighboring restaurant . . . ]
[Will you take our picture?]
[OK, it’s a selfie . . . ]
[When activities cease on the stage, the square seems to empty in a hurry . . . ]
[Remember the public transportation? That’s what we’re riding when I took the following shots . . . ]
[Hanging a left here . . . ]
[Bunch o’ flags . . . ]
[Here’s the theatre . . . ]
[Hanging a right here . . . ]
[A lovely tree-lined street . . . ]
[Fortress wall . . . ]
[With turrets . . . ]
[“No meat!”]
[“Probably the best steaks in town!”]
[I hope you don’t think the capital of Georgia is Atlanta?]
[Finishing our train ride back at the main square . . . ]
[A couple shots for the DOM . . . ]
[Puhkaja, by Tauno Kangro, which means holidaymaker in Estonian.]
[Last photo in Tallinn . . . ]
[Arrived back in Helsinki to Bad Bad Boy . . . ]
[By Tommi Toija, in Market Square . . . ]
[And sights on the way . . . ]
[Back to the hotel . . . ]
[Off to Russia in the morning.]
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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