Day 2 was a long but great day. We took a ferry over to Tallinn Estonia to see the old town. We had slept ok, but we had a relatively early wakeup call to make it to our 9 am boat. After quick breakfast in the apartment we were off
The entrance to our apartment
It was about a 40 min walk to the ferry terminal. Part of the walk went through what looked like an old warehouse district they were cleaning up.
Cool harbor on the way including some sauna boats
Cruise ship terminal finally!
Our boat
We first tried sitting on the deck to eat our breakfast, but that quickly got pretty cold with all the wind
Also there were very agressive seagulls
So we moved to the back of the boat to watch from the inside
After about 2.5 hours we saw Tallinn old town
While we waited to dock Lincoln discovered the play room that the Tallinn science museum had put together. He loved that place!
A short walk and we were right into old town
Much of old town is actually from the 14th century and the houses are all painted fun colors!
There is also some pretty cool looking newer buildings mixed in
We had to make a quick stop for a cookie and coffee before our free walking tour
Lincoln slept through the first hour of the tour
Started our tour with horses going by and nice views of the city
First stop of the tour was this old church they rebuilt after ww II bombing. The Soviets let them use it as a museum to atheism, but it is now a medieval art museum. The Estonians are the least religious people in the world with something like 18% of them saying they are religious.
Freedom square and the monument to soldiers who helped liberate Eastonia
Short walk up the hill to see some of the towers in the city walls. Here are some cannon balls still left in one of them
Russian Orthodox church
Another church, this one was Catholic (is?).
Great view of the city from the first overlook we visited
Lincoln was not all about taking the family picture
He was a happy kid though
Yep we carried the stroller down all those steps
And final stop was the town square which was hosting some sort of music festival for the weekend
Decoration on town hall
Lincoln getting a piggy back ride
A cool looking church we passed on the way to lunch
Lunch was amazing! They had local beer lots of good organic local food and they let us have the balcony mostly to ourselves
One of our dishes
Name of restaurant
Next stop was the tram to see the big park with the presidential palace
First we found a cute little playground for Lincoln. He mostly wanted to play in the sand as usual
Presidential palace guarded only by these 2 guys
Nicely decorated building on the other side of the gardens behind the palace
I didn't get the best pictures of the gardens here, but they were nice looking!
Little forest we walked through on the way out
And Lincoln got in another 45 min walk while we walked out and then got coffee
Very good almond/apple pie of some sort we had
Iced coffee helped revive us from the jet lag + 20,000 steps exhaustian
And finally back to our boat
We got the buffet on the way back. After some issues finding our table we finally settled in. It was ok food but the price was sure right. 26 euro each for all you can eat and drink
The desserts were the best. I especially like the aland pancack because it was full of cardemon
View of buffet
After dinner Lincoln spent a lot of time in the kids play room, mostly building giant towers
Right at 9 pm they let us off the boat and we had to do the 40 min walk back because there wasn't much transit on the Sunday night
Nice view of the harbor on the way back
We finally got back to our place around 10 pm, exhausted but we did have a good day!
Next up is a day to walk around Helsinki before taking the night train to the Arctic circle
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