Tallinn Part Two — The Harbor

 

After lunch we walked around the city, admired the old architectures, and felt sick of the communist-styled concrete ‘buildings.’ Till we ended up in the artist district of the city near the train station. There we found beautiful street art strange, and hostels. One of the hostels we made out of shipping containers! Damn, if we knew about them we would’ve slept in those!


As we wandered on we realized Tallinn had something that I absolutely love, and miss from Pécs, which was a harbor! Tallinn had a huge harbor, with even bigger cruise-ships. Usually I hate cruise ships, mostly because their negative effects on the environment, on the places they show up, but here I was just amazed by their size, by their look, and mostly by their size. Unfortunately I can’t help it I love ships and harbor, I would love to work on a huge thanker for a year someday. Although I was living it near the cruise ships, Sari didn’t had the time of her life, so we had to get moving. 

As we were walking in the shoreline we came across something called Linnahall, which didn’t looked like it’s been used in the past 30 years, as far as I remember it was in connection with some olympic event, but I can’t totally recall, and I don’t even have a picture of it. However I did take some pictures of the next thing we saw, we came across a huge old prison which was called Patarei Prison Exhibition, Communism is Prison — said Apple Maps. It was a huge old prison building — built in the 18th century — with an amazing seaside view. I’m not quite sure if being there was such a bad thing after all haha. 

We walked across the prison, and end up in another harbor! This time we could get closer to the ships, some of them were the part of an exhibition some of them were actively used sailing boats or fishing boats. We even saw one fishing boat shipping out from the port. It was amazing to see the boat leave, and seeing it fading in the distance gave me goosebumps. I also would love to work on a fishing boat for a bit. Not too long, just for a bit. After they left, we were left with nothing, but 20-ish huge various age boat to look at. They were beautiful, I was allowed to read most of the signs; there were boat that used to work in Alaska, then in Sweden, then in Finland, and then it ended up in Tallinn, but there were boar with even more interesting stories. However I couldn’t read all the signs because it was quite cold, and we’ve been out in the cold for five-ish hours by the time we got to this harbor.



From here we went to the nearest bar. On the way we saw some kids kayaking in the ocean — remember we were looking for a bar because we were freezing! As it turned out they were having a training in the end of September. Crazy! The bar we found was a strange one; there were some paintings that you could buy, but most importantly there were cold beer for me and hot tea for Sari. In this strange bar I had my first Estonian beer, and it was so good. When I took a sip of it it felt like all of my tastebuds were exploring. It was a great beer called:

From there we walked home thru the suburbs of Tallinn, where we found usually two or one story buildings, which looked like a usual apartment blocks, but instead of concrete they were built out of wood! They were so gorgeous, and they were everywhere! Many-many streets were full of these beautiful houses! We were absolutely astonished, we have never-ever saw anything like that, and we loved it! 

We absolutely loved Tallinn and Estonia, if I had to move somewhere I would probably choose either Gdansk or Tallinn.

I hope you loved my posts on Tallinn just as much as I loved the city. It only felt right to write two posts about the city, because it was that exciting!

Take care,

Almos

Location: Tallinn, Estonia

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