Tallinn Scenes, 4

 And now, the exciting conclusion of our Tallinn Scenes series...

Our final goal for the day: Tallinn's central market

Baking bread the old fashioned way

Not much else about the market was old-fashioned...it would have
been right at home in any American suburbopolis; this scene is in
the one very large seafood store

Eventual fate of all original Fiat 500s

Finished bread and baker's assistant

Back in old town

Rarest of sights...following a printed map

"Shire...Baggins..."...what are the Nazgul doing here?!

So next day we are approaching and entering the upper fortress

Looking out at a bit of modern Tallinn

In the inner fortress, the Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox
Church; very Russian-looking

Clandestine shot of the altar area

For our next church, in order to evade the 2 euro charge, we decided
to fall in between cruise ship excursion groups #78 and #79 and
hopefully pass unnoticed

The church, a former Lutheran one, I think...

"Famous" for displaying the crests and shields of Estonia's great
(Protestant?) families; at this point, we were done, opted out
of the excursion groups and headed back to a great Indian restaurant
for dinner (next post); and for packing up for our next removal...

Parthian shot from Tallinn

Tallinn Scenes, 3

 Still more scenes from Tallinn...

And another, big art deco; OK, I'm now saying Tallinn's art nuvo and
art deco offerings are underrated

For you, Marie: the Tervis Museum (click to enlarge)

The contemporary sculpture sometimes leaps right
out at you

Passing under the central old town fortress (next day's post)

Another fun place to eat and drink; a former nunnery, I assume

Sculpture and fountain in one of the several old town parks

So our goal for the walk was the Telliskivi Creative Center,
an older warehouse district somewhat outside the old town,
which is being gentrified and artrified; the digitus impudicus
among its symbols; we'd read there was a peoples' flea 
market there on Saturdays...but, alas, no more

More sculpture

Lots of murals

Not everything gentrified yet

Beyond the courts you can see rows of manufacturing/warehouses
waiting to be fixed up and made trendy

Helpful map #86,928

Of course

Walking back under the central fortress

Resto consisting of choo-choo dining cars

Tallinn Scenes, 2

 More Tallinn scenes from our 4 day visit...

And another art nouveau

Approaching the big city square; the young woman on
the multi-string violin was really good

Big square and Gothic city hall

Also on the square: peering into an apothecary said
to be Europe's oldest

More of the square

Dragon downspout on the city hall

Amber stores all over

Unlike Riga, Tallinn is definitely on the cruise ship beaten track;
every here and there, port excursion groups, mostly in English
(too)

Among the many traditional buildings

An art deco now and then

Old gate towers, the modern city beyond

Another day, we are walking down to the port...bug hotels in a city park

Ferry to Helsinki parking lot

Scandinavia has some of the steepest liquor prices in the world; it's 

obviously worth it to take the 2 hour ferry to Tallinn where one can

get more competitive prices at this, the largest liquor store I have ever 

seen

Cruise ships in port

Large concrete road barriers in the shape of doves;
tank obstacles for when Putin heads this way

Old fortress/prison at the harbor

Helpful map of the area

Out there, Finland...turn right and you're 200 miles from St. Petersburg