Tallinn - Day 2

For the second day of Estonia (Aug 11, 2011) we decided to explore around Tallinn. Our wonderful guidebook recommended that we head to Kadriorg Park and to a little beach city, Pirita.

Kadriorg was a very short tram ride away. It turned out to be a beautiful park that was built by Peter I for his wife Catherine. So we enjoyed the fountains and the gardens and the gorgeous weather. We even found a summer residence of the Estonian president and watched the change of guard. Then we were off to Pirita.

As I mentioned before, Pirita is a beach / port town. During the Soviet times it was used to train the Soviet Olympic teams. The remnants of that are still visible with the Olympic symbols and old unused ports for the yachts.

As it is proper when you head to the beach, we packed bathing suits and towels. However, when we got there, it started to rain and the beach-wear could only be used as an additional layer to keep ourselves warm :) Since the rain was on and off we still managed to do quite a bit of walking on the beach, the piers and in the forest.
In the evening we headed back to the Old City and accomplished two great things:
1. We went to Kompressor, which a crepe (blinchiki) place that Levka has been telling me about since the day that we decided to go to Tallinn. Apparently he went there 5 years ago and with his memory he managed to remember the name of the place and the street that it is on. I guess his bad memory makes exceptions for great things! This place was well worth it :)
2. We met up with Vadim (Lim's friend) who showed us around the Old town once again and told us about the history.

All in all a wonderful day!

A side note: Somewhere during the day, the aforementioned travel book went missing. It put a slight damper in the mood (many of you may be aware of my attachment to books), but it was all resolved very late in the day when that someone brought it back. Good travel spirits are definitely with us!

Hugs to all the readers,

j.