Back To Tallinn

We returned to Tallinn at 8 PM and had a very late dinner at Pepper Sack:

The next day, the weather was beautiful, and after breakfast, we still had five hours of walking around.

I wanted to climb up to Olevista because last summer I didn’t have a chance: it was closed for Midsummer in June, and when we visited with Anna’s family, we didn’t have time.

As I tell everyone who cares to listen, Tallinn is the best-preserved Medieval city, with the longest stretches of walls and all the structures of the Upper and Lower Town in place, including the gates. What I didn’t know 9and somehow Boris never told me, although he knew) that the most damage to the city walls was done in the spring of 1944. To be clear, not during the “liberation,” but several months before that, when the airstrikes didn’t even have any strategic purpose. The damage was done for the sole purpose of frightening the citizens. If not that, we would have pretty much the whole wall in place.

I have tons of pictures, but once again, the beauty of Tallinn is Tallinn itself, not any specific view or a cute house, but the shire fact that you can walk and walk, and the city is as a it is – a living history, preserved and treasured, and as alive as it can be!

We stopped at the Museum of Theater and Musical Instruments, which turned a hundred years old in spring. I loved how everything was organized, but it required a lot of reading, and not everything was illuminated enough for me to be able to read.