Estonia – Two Brits Abroad

Our travel highlights for 2015

December 16, 2015 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

Following our career break in 2014, when we spent 7 months travelling around South America, 2015 was always going to be a little less travel-ey. However, we still managed to get in some great trips. Here are our highlights:Fairytale TallinnIn early April, over the Easter weekend we headed to Estonia’s capital Tallinn for an explore of the fairytale city. Despite the cold (yes it snowed) we loved wandering around the pretty old town and going up Toompea Hill to survey…

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Drinking craft beer in Tallinn

May 17, 2015 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

The craft beer scene in Tallinn is alive, well and worth a sample! The most obvious place to try out Estonian beers and to sample beers from around the world is in Pudel Baar in the Telliskivi Creative City, in the Kalamaja area of the city. This laid back, relaxing small bar has a great range of different beers and a good method for choosing your perfect beer – a flowchart on the wall leads you through to a beer choice,…

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KGB museum in Tallinn: A short review

April 18, 2015 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

Looking out to the port from the balcony of the Viru hotel The Viru Hotel – a conspicuous high rise overlooking Tallinn’s old town, just outside the city walls – has a secret. The Viru hotel – how many floors does it have? It has a hidden 23rd floor. The lifts in the hotel only go up to floor 22, from where, behind a locked door, you’ll find a staircase taking you up to the 23rd floor. This was where…

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Introducing Tallinn

April 12, 2015 Sarah Comments 10 comments

Medieval Tallinn I (Sarah) had had the pretty Estonian capital of Tallinn on my wish list for a number of years after a former housemate had headed off to the Baltic state for a short break. I had looked at photos of the walled and turreted old town and my wanderlust was ignited! St Catherine’s passage As the 2015 long Easter weekend approached, I was searching for cheap flights for a short break and Tallinn kept coming up. So now was…

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Being vegetarian in Tallinn

April 7, 2015 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

Sitting on the plane on the way to Tallinn, reading my guide book, my heart started to sink. “The idea of anyone willingly giving up meat is fairly baffling to the porkchop-loving Estonians”, it declared. Those vegetarian dishes that do exist “range from fairly uninspired concoctions of stir fried veggies or grilled cauliflower”, read the next sentence. There was also a warning that any soups or salad that may appear meat-free by reading the menu were likely to include bits of…

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