Today was our last day in Tallinn. No more breakfasts of champagne and brownie for poor old Sarah. Life is tough.
The sun shone virtually all day long as we crossed the Ts and dotted the Is around Tallinn. Four days was just right for this city and we now feel we’ve seen and done all we wanted to. Of course, there are enough still unpatronised kohviks to keep us sipping coffee and eating cake for the next month, but time is a commodity that is steadily depleting and so we must move on.
Tomorrow morning, we’ll be up bright and early in order to catch the ferry to Helsinki. The drive itself is negligible. Take out the ferry crossing and we’ll scarcely be driving three kilometres from this hotel to the next!
Our meal this evening was modern Estonian cuisine at Kaerajaan. I had the ostrich, which was delicious. From our vantage point on Raekoja plats, we watched life in the Estonian capital wind down for the day, the sun skimming across the rooftops of the Baltic sky.
Tallinn calms down after 16:00, which is when the seas of nylon tracksuit-clad septuagenarians beat a retreat to the cruise-liners that ushered them in, at which point the capital reverts to a tranquil place for a peaceful stroll.
Across the Gulf of Finland we go!