We go to Tallinn for a vacation

Going on vacation or on a weekend in Tallinn can be interesting both for those who have not been here since the Soviet times, and for children and youth. You can get to Tallinn by plane, train, bus or ferry.

The first thing that catches your eye, Tallinn - the city is very small. If you like to walk and walk a lot, then, resting here, you will rarely use public transport or a car.

The old town has a very good impression on tourists. Here are wonderful houses with centuries of history, cozy restaurants for every taste and purse, many souvenir shops. To get around him walking along and across it will take several hours. Perhaps, if you use the services of a private guide, you can learn a lot of amazing details of the centuries-old history of the capital of Estonia.

There is no metro in Tallinn. Perhaps it is not needed here, but the locals decided to keep up with other cities in this matter and tourist maps alongside the excursions in Tallinn printed a map of the trolleybus traffic.

Public transport in Tallinn has recently become free, but only for residents of Tallinn. All the rest must buy a ticket for travel costs 1.6 EUR.

People of the older generation, after coming here after a 20-year break, often ask themselves what the locals have been doing all this time. In Tallinn, just terrible roads. On the facades of many houses there are silhouettes of Russian inscriptions "deli", "bread" that creates an additional charm for the city.

Tallinners do not like to use commuter trains, justifying it by the fact that the Soviet Union once built such bad railroads for them that it is still impossible to travel by them.

Many houses in the city are wooden, two- and three-story, built in the 1920s. Recently, it has become fashionable to decorate these houses from the outside with modern materials and sell inexpensive housing that looks good in appearance.

If you observe the inhabitants of Tallinn, then almost all people working in the specialties, whether builders, road workers or sellers in stores - use Russian to communicate with each other. The same part of the population that moves mostly on private cars and works in offices owns only Estonian and tries to speak to them in English in English. Nothing but irony can cause this.

In the city, as before, very clean parks, which are nice to walk. There are many children's playgrounds with various slides, lazalkami and carousels. Fans of cycling will find good bicycle paths here.

Going to the grocery store in Tallinn immediately strikes a special assortment that you will not meet in any other European city. Here, for example, you can buy several types of buckwheat, salad olivier and herring under a fur coat, many kinds of beer and alcoholic drinks with labels in Russian.

In Tallinn, there is only one large shopping complex, located near the zoo. From this we can safely conclude that wages in Estonia are low and that part of the solvent population is extremely low. For example, in Stockholm, such shopping malls are more than a hundred.

The distance from Tallinn to Helsinki is only about seventy kilometers and several ferry companies serving this route offer many flights on high-speed ferries. Round-trip ticket to Helsinki costs about thirty euros and this route seems to be very popular here.