Tallinn, Estonia

7/21/2008 -- Tallinn, Estonia

This old medieval city is actually one of my favorite ports. Going there with not much knowledge about the country we were very curious as to what we will find. When the ship docked we could see the pointy spiral tops of buildings...hmmm, this is going to be interesting!

Instead of taking the shuttles to town, we decided to walk because it didn't seem to be too far away and we wanted to see if there would be anything interesting between the port and the city. Most people were taking the shuttles (with a fee), so it was kind of quiet as we walked towards the city. It was an easy walk with not much traffic around. Armed with a walking map that I found on cruise critic, we just followed the clear instructions and arrived at the side gate of the very old wall. It was very quiet and it seemed that we were the only people there at that time. We figured that most people probably got to the top of the hill by bus or went through the main gate to the city. We just leisurely walked our way up to the hill and bumped into locals instead of tourists as we explored this quaint city.

There was really nothing around the port.

The city seemed not too far away.

Inside the wall

hiking upward

We found another gate, so we went back outside to take pictures.

Just beautiful!

narrow streets

This postal carrier started early!

Now, we are at the top of the hill.

Lutheran Church, I think

Orthodox Church

The very busy town square.

We like to get away from the crowds.

A Chinese restaurant at the wall near the main gate.

The main gate area seemed to be very busy.

We were back to the side gate around the corner to the right and walked back to the ship.