A great day out! If you visit
have come to my last post on the taste and Helsinki and do this three-day trip, then I recommend a day for Tallinn, the capital of Estonia plan. With the ship (eg Viking Line ) one has crossed the line from 80 km in 2.5 hours each way and has 4 hours for the center of Tallinn time. Sounds little but ranges from completely! I was the warm and friendly Atmosphere of the city surprised and felt very comfortable there. The medieval and modern structures are well preserved and invite you to linger and explore the sights, streets, alleys and many other hidden corners. Especially in the initial ray of sunshine for 14 bis 15.30 clock the colorful buildings and houses were ideal for application! In the historic old town still large parts of the city wall, towers and other components included a castle and have an effect on majestic "tourists". In addition, the cities of many and are, above all, high and old churches - 11 in number of different (!) Eras, built for different denominations, and under changing rulers. Also fall to the excessive number of souvenir shops, restaurants and alcohol business. A clear sign of what the city is in place - tourism. For the Finns
Tallinn is a popular day trip destination because it is so incredibly cheap compared to Helsinki! They come with large shopping bags packed full of great things that make life better, back to the boat ;-) (but usually in relatively large quantities of alcohol, but also tea, chocolate and other items of daily use). In four-hour stay, the Finns usually shopped in one of the many Restaurants eaten and drunk in one of the pubs a lot of beer.
But the navigation is an experience in itself - here starts after only the spending of money on the tour and is on the way back to the end. The vessel with 10 decks, a town center (!) With restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs, live music, play areas for children, slot machines for adults, including and especially with a shopping center, alcohol, sweets, cosmetics, perfume tax-free offers. The business is not getting through and the money that goes over the counter is unimaginable! At 12 noon clock displayed when "Shopping World" opens the first and their liquor, have broken through to the checkout and paid for, is already consumed alcohol on the ship in large quantities. After an hour, you can already smell beer flags and see drunk people. The consumer enthusiasm is indescribable. There is probably no more or no one Finns from Helsinki, which is not many times been in Tallinn. For many it begins in childhood - with a family visit in Tallinn. Here young people learn to consume ...
Now a supplement to the ugly scenes from the evening on the ship: after so much alcohol you can imagine what is going on. I would not go into detail, just some impressions: sleeping men at the tables, fluctuating People bump into the other and sometimes they fall over, are collected and forwarded, babbling people falling over tables people, foreign people "talking" to each other, often with the already half-closed eyes. The tables are crowded with alcoholic beverages, along with stacks of available beer packs, or bottles of alcohol purchased in the shopping center and now have been drinking or are kept at home, and there will be a cocktail, have a beer, one more drink orders and triggered ... And in the middle children, who watch their parents in
... This is the paradox for me in the Finnish culture: the shy, reserved, well protected and well-behaved children in the school and the drinking adolescents and adults.
Anyway, a trip from Helsinki to Tallinn is cheap and the historic old town is worth a visit! Get to know the city and visiting a restaurant four hours of perfect. Who would like to shop, probably needs more time. A grocery store in downtown but I have not seen spontaneously. Tallinn definitely proves that history can be fun, and that story is beautiful, I've said all along :-)
Now the promised photos, but hardly with labels ... I know very little about the historical background Tallinn. The photos to an overall impression of the shipping industry, released from the ship itself and the historical Old Town of Tallinn - have fun :-)
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