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Stop 1 - Warsaw,
Poland
Stop 2 - Vilnius, Lithuania
Stop 3 - Riga, Latvia
Stop 5 - Helsinki, Finland
Stop 6 - St. Petersburg, Russia
Stop 7 - Moscow, Russia
It was a very short bus trip via
Lux Express from Riga to Tallinn.
The bus fare was approximately CAD$20/trip/person and the trip was about 3
1/2 hours.
Peter and I stayed at
Pk Ilmarine Hotel which was
near the
Old
Town and Port of Tallinn.
All of the main attractions of Tallinn ar at
Old Town like the
Town Hall Square, Kiek in de
Kök & Bastion Tunnels and the treacherous
St. Olaf's
Chuch. For EUR 2 entrance fee, we went up the tower for 253 steps
on very treacherous and steep hallways where we held onto 1 thick rope.
Once up the tower, we had a very good 360 degree view of Tallinn.
Interestingly, one of the churches that we
went to had to charge EUR 1.50 to get into the church itself and EUR 5 to
get up the tower. I wondered if people who went to mass to that church
actually paid EUR 1.50 to worship.
The town was very small and we even went back
to the hotel late in the afternoon to get a quick rest. For dinner, we
had some seafood mix for appetizer and more pork legs.
As October 19 approached, we celebrated my
42nd birthday by having different kinds of expensive whisky. From
Johnny Walker Blue and various Cognac. The bar tender even gave us
freebies as Peter celebrated his 25th birthday on October 18. The
pictures show how much fun we had on our birthdays!
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