More of Old Town Tallinn

Ok so we were enjoying the amazing pancakes you saw in the last post in Rakvere when my sister's phone rang and it was our mom wondering where we were... Turns out they were waiting for us to get back to celebrate the independence day with style. Oh the infamous sandwich cake that I always eat when home! It's delicious and only one! shop has it! And I couldn't find any this time :( (yes this epic failure must be noted down). She did manage to find a sandwich cake, just a different flavour... Plus potato salad, viinerid, and CAKE! yum!

Roll on the next day after an amazing foodie weekend. We went to the Open Air Museum. Unfortunately the weather wasn't the best, trying to rain but luckily didn't. We saw a really fancy rooster, all the old farm houses, their summer kitchens outside (he was so surprised and worried about my nan having an oven outside on the roofed terrace, where every summer she cooks and eats, he had never ever seen anything like it, until now where we found out it's a long long tradition) and tried kiiking - made Mr. Specail nauseous. The newest (I think) house in the museum was exactly like ours (before renovation), pretty cool to find your house, wallpapers, furniture etc in a museum already :D

Obviously had a lunch break there which serves oldy traditional food, with fresh pickles mmmmmm....

The evening took us to another trip to the Old Town, another part of it now, the new Freedom Square and the BEST pancake place in the World. Huge portions, cheap prices! Needed a good walk around all souvenir shops to walk it all off. (fun fact, it's quite hard to find a good souvenir shop since most of them sell Russian things and amber which really don't have any connection with Estonia...). Ooooh and that night we found a busker who was playing the Game of Thrones theme tune on a violin! So awesome!!!

Cheese balls!!!

Garlic bread!!!!

Hello there!

We also went to the Fat Margarita which Mr. Special seems to think is one of the main attractions... I think he just heard the word Fat and was fascinated ever since. In reality it's just a big big tower on the city wall, with a maritime? museum in it. Nothing too special :D Pretty nonetheless. Further down from there we stumbled upon the Annual flower festival where different themed gardens are set up... the mermaid one was freaky, the bee one had a tiny maze shaped like a beehive.

The next day was supposed to be a better day in terms of weather so we chose to go see Kadriorg Palace and gardens. But as soon as we had to step out of the tram it started raining. Heavy! Really heavy, likked soaked instantly heavy. Ok can't exactly wait at the tram stop until it's over, so we legged it to the nearby cafe, to wait it out. Had a little cake and coffee to cheer us up but when we were done the rain still wasn't, although it wasn't as bad so we made the decision to hastily go straight to the castle. Mr. Special managed to quickly take a photo of the swan pond, I had initially wanted to walk around that park as well as it is divine.

The Kadriorg Palace was built for Catherine I of Russia and now houses an art museum. When we were finally done exploring all the art, it had finally stopped raining so we could head outside to check out the garden behind the Palace. Behind that garden is another Palace where our president lives and works.

We also went to have a look at the Japanese Garden in one of the corners of that huge grounds.

Since Mr. Special's dad is a big football fan, obviously he wanted to go and visit our local Arena, A le Coq Arena which luckily isn't too far from my house so we could walk there. There is  a big sport shop there as well but even that is quite poor in the souvenir selection... clearly football is not all the fuss in here :D We did manage to find a scarf and a pin luckily...

Don't think I've ever been to the TV Tower in Tallinn... until now :)

And guess what we did on our last day??? Went to the Old Town obviously! :D

This time climbed the Oleviste Church tower which at the time it was built was the highest tower in the World! Don't worry there are a few seats half way up the tower to catch your breath before the stunning city views.

Lunch time! This time we opted for a real medieval feel of a cafe, which served soup, pies (wild boar, deer etc traditional meat + carrot, cabbage) and sausages. There were no lights and it was superbusy, we were lucky to find a table, missing a seat at first but as soon as we got all the food a seat became available as well :) A really cool place! glad we found it!

After that we made our way to the gallery of my favourite artist Navitrolla. I bought some postcards with his work on. I love his quirky style and humour and used to have a calendar but haven't found that in a few years :(

Finally I had to show you how crazy Mr. Special went... I don't know how we managed to get it all in the suitcase and it was only 1kg over! Ooooh he lost it, because we didn't get there "early" enough and the queue was HUGE. Tbh I wasn't expecting the queue to be that big, can't actually remember the last time I travelled with a big suitcase...

This is what milk looks like

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...