Day 11

Up. Not too bad.

Breakfast and to the KGB museum. More subjugation and execution. Walk through the park again and visit the ruined cathederal, which has the University Museum. After lunch I wander along the river for a bit. It's a great walk, but after a while the path - or, small strip of trampled snow - leads into some trees and it's a bit harder going. I press on and eventually find a few buildings.

I don't like going back on myself, so I decide that buildings imply roads and that I'll walk back to town that way. As I'm walking past one of the buildings a dog starts barking at me. Mindful of Valga I take a good look at him - he doesn't seem too aggressive and there's a fence between me and him. The fact I can see him makes all the difference in the world, I'm not really intimidated at all, as long as he can't get me.

I walk a bit further and the fence runs out which means that he can get me. He comes towards me - maybe he's just curious but there is no way in Hell I'm doing anything other than race for a gate about 15m away. The dog doesn't give chase, when I turn around once I'm safely on the other side he's quite far away. Turns out my fight-or-flight dial is set firmly to ''flight''. I feel a little bit silly, but there was no way for me to know he wasn't an insane rabid canine with a taste for Brits so I reckon I did OK.

Except that now I'm on the other side of the gate I'm clearly in private property. I don't know how his has happened, but I need to hop over a locked gate on the other side to get out. I wonder if this is a crime - breaking and leaving? There was no notice or sign to say where public land stopped and private land began - or maybe I missed it due to the dog excitment.

Walk back to the hostel and head out for dinner. I go to a student bar and have dumplings. I'm not intending a heavy night, but I get talking to some international students from the university and before I know it I'm staggering home at 5 o'clock in the morning. Getting up early tomorrow to get to Tallinn at a sensible time might be a challenge.


Estimated number of units today: 8
Estimated number of units total: 55

Estimated number of girls taken to bed today: 0
Estimated number of girls taken to bed total: 0