Last Day in Estonia 🇪🇪

 

The next morning we were ready to leave Tallinn, however we were not ready to leave Estonia!

For my biggest surprise when we entered the first shop in Estonia, I made a strange discovery; I found an instant meal, or spaghetti sauce, that had Hungarian sentences on it! I shared a picture of it as an Instagram story, and one of my lovely followers — who happened to be Estonian — has written me a welcoming text and she suggested me different local products, which were must tries. Hence we started our last day in Estonia in a grocery store, looking for particular items like: Kohuke chocolate glazed quark snack — which was a cottage cheese finger covered with chocolate, if you are familiar with the Hungarian cuisine we had the same idea, same snack Túró rudi, but they have slightly different taste. I couldn’t tell you which one was better to be honest. We also bought some dessert called Black Bread Dessert, now that was nothing similar to anything I’ve tried before, it had an interesting taste, it didn’t become my favorite dish, but it was great to have the opportunity to try it! We were also suggested to try Vana Tallinn Liquor, however we didn’t know that shops are not allowed to sell alcohol in the morning, so unfortunately we didn’t have the option to try it — what a strange rule, eh? If I was an alcoholic I would’ve known about this rule and would’ve made it absolutely sure that I would’ve bought enough booze to ‘survive’ the morning without being able to buy any.

That’s just a picture from the previous day, that I’ve accidentally uploaded, but I love this picture too much to delete 

Now these are the yummies’ve been talking about!

After our gastro tour we eventually hit the road, and we were almost ready to say goodbye to that magnificent country, however first I wanted to check out a strange memorial, a memorial for Soviet fighter-jet pilots[source]. The place was in Ämari an hour-ish drive West bound from Tallinn. At that time I didn’t know there would be a huge air base, which would possibly have such a huge role in modern times history — American and other NATO air forces’ve been sent there in February.

The memorial turned out to be a nice little graveyard with planes’ fins being used as headstones. The place was cold and unfriendly, many thoughts amd doubts were running thru our minds as we were reading the headstones. 16, 18, 21, the oldest pilot was only 42 years old… I only took one picture because it felt really inappropriate to walk around and thinking about the right angle, instead of praying for those souls who lost their life because of some lunatic dictators and their stupid ideology. Tragedy.

 Right next to the graveyard was the end of the cute little village of Ämari. As far as I saw, these countries’ villages were effected by the Soviet Union bigtime! As you may or may not know these beautiful little counties were once part of the Soviet Union, which had a huge impact on cities and villages. Most of the villages were really nice, however we found many-many of them having disgusting three-to-four story concrete apartment blocks, built in the Soviet area, probably for soldiers or miners. If my memory serves me right Ämari also had a few of these concrete blocks, but thankfully not as much as some other villages.

Ämari was our last stop in Estonia, from there we drove thru the beautiful countryside until we reached Latvia.

I’ll see you in Latvia next time!

Take care,

Almos

 

P.S.: Thank you very much for your welcoming message, and huge thank you for your suggestions we appreciated it very much! I’m not writing your name because I don’t know if you would mind, but thank you very much for everything!