Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Im going ALL-INN in Tallinn
So I amazingly woke up in Berlin to catch my flight at 830 to Riga, I didnt know what to expect from Riga but it was super nice, the airport is great and boy do they love their flowers. The latvia lat (currency) is on par with the pound so just about the strongest in the world, which sucks but whatever. I paid 30 pence for a bus ticket to the center city and went down to Funky Fun Franks Hostel which is right on the river. They had a room and they gave me a free beer so It was nice. Riga is stag party central for the UK which is both a good think a bad one. Party town. The city was really beautiful though, 40% of the downtown is art nouveau and the old moat is now a great park with paddle boats and everything. I went to the museum of the Latvian occupation which included German and Soviet. Amazing, I love history so yeh. Well stayed 3 nites there then caught a bus to Tallinn. Tallinn has alot more investment, lots of really cool new buildings plus a much larger and beautiful old town (called ALL INN). Much more touristy, lots of tour groups from cruise trips, fewer strip clubs and crazy people getting drunk.. Went to the occupation museum here, very different, seemed like more Estonians volunteered for the German army than in Latvia. Beautiful country, would love to go hiking but currently not equipped for such. Gonna catch a cruise-ferry across to Helsinki tomorrow and then onto Stockholm on the 13th.
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