Trip to Tallinn

CRUISE DAY TO TALLINN

 

 

Last weekend I went to Tallinn with my family, we did a day cruise to Tallinn from Helsinki. The Ferry left Helsinki at 10:30 am, it took us around two hours to reach Tallinn,Tallinn and Helsinki are close to each other, only 82 km away from each other.

It was the first time for my parents in a ferry, they were very exicted, I must said that ferries are not like an ordinary ship, ferries are huge, very huge. It is impressive to see it from the outside, but even more impressive from the inside. When you are in the ferry, you don´t have the impression of being in the sea, it  looks more like if you were in a mall, there is lot of shops and restaurants, there is also a pub and a karaoke. You can easily get lots, at least I got lost couple of times. Our ferry was very crowded but luckily we got a place to sit on our both ways.

Once we arrived to Tallinn we got a map from the tourist information point and start our adventure in a new city for most of us. Our first stop was St. Olav church, is at the entrance of the city, is one of the tallest buildings of the old city of Tallinn, so is very easy to reach. The inside of the church is very simple, not much to see, we paid two euros to go on top of the tower and see the city from there, I have to say that it was really hard to reach the top of it because there is not other way than going through very skinny stairs, it is very cramped but it totally worth to go, the views were amazing.

After that extra sport we went to have lunch, it was not easy to find a good restaurant with suitable prices, at least not in the old twon, you need to go far away from the old town to find some cheap restaurants. After had lunch we went back to the old town and enjoy the touristci attraction that the city offers to you, like the town hall, door Viru, Alexander Nevski Cathedral and so on. We took the ferry back to Helsinki at 20:30 pm but before that we went to an alcohol store and buy some bottles. That is very common reason to travel to Tallinn, many Finnish come back with lot of bottles and cans, Finland have very high taxes for alcohol drinks, so by buying it in Estonia you can save lot of money.

        This is typical middle age finnish couple on their way back

 

 

 

 



FAKE SPRING

FINNISH SPRING

 

Today I will talk about the Finnish spring. As all of you know the official day of the beginning of the spring is 20th of March. But it seems that Finland have a bit different  weather than the rest of Europe.

Yesterday my family came to Finland to spend Easter with me, and also visit Finland. What they didn´t expect were that Finland would recieve them with snow. They arrived to Helsinki at 20:00, our original plan was do some sightseeing around the city until the time we have to take the bus to my city, but the weather was awful, it was windy and snowing, very cold for them, imagine they came from Spain where right now the temperature is around 25 degrees and sunny. So what we did in exchange was have dinner in a Burger Knig and wait inside the train station until our bus leaves.

 

                        

                           Is this how spring should look like?
              Don´t you think this images fits more in Autumn?

Two weeks ago We had a full week of sun, YES!! SUN IN FINLAND. We thought the spring was finally coming, people were hoping that there won´t be more snow and the temperatures will start rising, but it was all a delusion, after that sunny week we went back to cold temperatures and rainy days. In my previous experience in Finland, spring didn´t come until May, I hope I am wrong this time and soon we can enjoy lovely sunny days with good weather, I CAN´T WAIT!!