P.S. for last night. Went to the event, nothing special really, except the Captain didn’t attend because the weather wasn’t good. I did wake a few times and hear the hangers in the wardrobe knocking the insides, but it wasn’t much and someone this morning said it was a rough night, but I think they must have been on a different ship, lol.
So, back to today. Missed the sunrise as the time said 4.06 and it was up at least 5 minutes before that. I’ve been getting up to the deck at least 15 minutes beforehand, but dallied this morning!!
My tour was supposed to be at 8 but was delayed until 10, so had breakfast again up in the Diamond Club and another chat with the concierge. Got to the end of the pier early so did some people watching until the bus arrived. This was a Town & Country tour, so we went off to the country first to a working dairy farm and had a tasting of their cheeses, feta and yoghurt. All very nice. Watched a short video on how their cheese is made which was interesting, I don’t think I have seen the process before. Then we stopped of to walk through someone’s house, built in the 1960s. Several of us felt very uncomfortable doing so, we couldn’t work out why one would let umpteen strangers walk through every room in your house and then give them cake and refreshments in the garden!
The country part was lovely, lots of pine trees and forests as well as open fields. There are only 1.3 million people in the whole country!
Tallinn was originally made up of 2 towns, the upper New Town, comprising German winter houses and run by Germans and the lower, Old Town which was run by the town council. We had a walk through the oldest cathedral which is decorated with the coats of arms of all those married in it.
Saw the old city wall and its towers in some areas and lots of cobbled streets to walk along to get back to the bus and the ship. Lunch eaten at 3 pm, now blog time and we will be sailing for Stockholm soon.
P.P.S. to Russia. A couple who were in Russia 8 years ago were amazed at how much it had changed. Lots more signs with English as well as Russian, and the fact that people could go where they wanted. They said that no one had been allowed anywhere else but bus to museum or souvenir shop, straight back to bus. I must admit I was quite surprised on our walking tour when our guide said that if any of us got lost we would find the group at the Church on Spilled Blood.
