It was supposed to rain both days we were going to spend in Estonia, and I couldn’t be happier with the weather forecast going wrong! In fact, there was not a drop of rain the entire time we were in Tallinn, except for a time when we were walking to the ferry on Friday evening. We were so sure that it would be raining that we didn’t even have any plans for the good weather, so after disembarking, we stood for a while trying to figure out what to do :).
Roterman keeps offering something new each time we walk through it
This time, we tried another small hotel, the Merchant’s House, and it was much better than “too Medieval” Garden Hotel :).
Becides, the house dates back to the early 16 th century, which fit into my current obsession with Baltazar Russow. I knew that he walked this street, and when the host showed us a ceiling with 600 years old paintings, I immediately thought that Baltazar could see them, and it gave me goose bumps.
The room was tiny but had everything needed.
We still had several hours before the meetup, and there was still no rain in sight. Boris remembered that I asked him about the Holy Spirit Church, and why I never saw it. He told me that I saw it, but just didn’t register that it was called that way. When he showed the church to me I realized that yes, I saw it multiple times! I just didn’t know that it was Baltazar’s church!
It turned out that the church was open to tourist during the off-service hours, so we paid 3 euro for each of us and went inside.
Then, there was a pleasant surprise: we were looking for a place to eat that would not be a touristy pizza-pasta place, but also not as fundamental as Old Hansa or Pepper Sack. Walking down Pikk Jalg, we noticed that one of the former “pizza – pasta” places started to look more interesting. We read the menu on the wall and asked to be seated.
The Pika Jala restaurant totally exceeded expections, starting with the homemade rhubarb lemonade!
Then we went to the meetup, and next morning, we left for Narva
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