Visit to Tallinn

With a ferry boat starting from Stockholm in the evening one arrives in the morning in the harbor of Tallinn in Estonia.  Swedish friends all recommended us to see there 'the old town'.
We would say the same.  A short walk through the modern town with 'Coca Cola Plaza' and McCafe
was enough to appreciate even more the medieval part of Tallinn.

Peeks in side streets lifted the spirit and in the City museum we learned about the numerous occupations this town had to endure. We saw there the documentary about the 'Singing revolution' and our sympathy to the Estonian people grew.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ricksteves/estonias-singing-revolution-4691/?no-ist

'Kloostri Ait' a Tallinn restaurant which has live music in the evenings, we were happy to find for a small lunch, coffee and truffles. The friendly young waitress told us that the first foreign language taught in schools is English.  Good, Estonian is hard to understand.

For large groups of tourists there are of course many - too many - garish souvenir shops.  A nice brake then to find some hand crafted products on the market of Raekoja Plats.  Woolen gloves with patterns demonstrating the inexhaustible creativity of the knitters.  Can Estonian men knit?