 Day 15.
Friday 16th July. Free day in Tallin.
Easy morning, up for breakfast about 9.30
and a walk around the hotel area. Not really much to see,
Supermarket, Sportscentre and a roundabout. Back into the
city for a few little jobs. First to get some cards
printed and laminated. Big problem, the first stop could
laminate but not print the cards and the second place could not
help at all. So I just went and did my tourist thing and
walked the old city and took lots of photos. Beautiful old
buildings some dating back to 11 century. I had something
to eat in the Town Hall Square which was packed with tourists of
all nationalities. Towards the evening I decided to give
the cards another try and called into a stationary shop.
They couldn't help so I just walked into a computer shop next
door and explained my problem. They printed out the cards
right away, no charge. Back to the copier shop and they
laminated them for me. I know I should have done this
before I went but I'm not that well organized. Then the
flower stalls on the edge of the old city and two bunches, each
of five white lillies. I gave Rene the taxi man a ring and
was at Joey's monument within 15 minutes. Laid the flowers
and cards , paid my respects and went back to the hotel.
Made my calls home to family and texted Ivar, a Tallinn
policeman I had met at Nordkapp. Of course within half an hour I
was called to reception to talk to a policeman. I think
they were relieved to see we were smiling and shaking hands.
Ivar was still on duty so we arranged to meet Monday evening
when I returned from St Petersburg. Shower and early to
bed. Big day tomorrow.
Day 15 pictures
here.
Day 14 report here.
Day 16 report
here.
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 © 2004 Alex Bradley
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