Up, bus, airport, plane, Stansted, train, Cambridge, bed.
Done.
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Day 14
Up, but not too early. It's my last day so I plan on enjoying it.
Wander around a little more of Tallinn, and find the History museum, which has a fantastic knight with a double-handed sword. The sword is about as long as me, but the armour is for someone about five feet tall. What a bad-ass.
Come afternoon I find the Museum of Occupation - it has a lot of memorabilia from Soviet days, including a Lada which looks extremely comfortable (and another which looks painful to sit in, let along drive). Best is the exhibit downstairs, which has the heads from old Soviet statues. The guys who the statues depicted were high up in Estonian / Soviet government, and I like the idea that they're stuck in a museum basement now, not adorning prestigious spaces in Tallinn.
One more sauna, and it's dinner time. Pancakes again, then we watch Taken at the hostel (one of those films with no sympathetic characters, so I didn't really care if the good guys won) before my final night. It's not as heavy as I thought it might be. I must be getting old. Wander around Tallinn for a little while looking for a kebab shop but it's too good at hiding so I head back.
Estimated number of units today: 8
Estimated number of units total: 73
Estimated number of girls taken to bed today: 0
Estimated number of girls taken to bed total: 0
Wander around a little more of Tallinn, and find the History museum, which has a fantastic knight with a double-handed sword. The sword is about as long as me, but the armour is for someone about five feet tall. What a bad-ass.
Come afternoon I find the Museum of Occupation - it has a lot of memorabilia from Soviet days, including a Lada which looks extremely comfortable (and another which looks painful to sit in, let along drive). Best is the exhibit downstairs, which has the heads from old Soviet statues. The guys who the statues depicted were high up in Estonian / Soviet government, and I like the idea that they're stuck in a museum basement now, not adorning prestigious spaces in Tallinn.
One more sauna, and it's dinner time. Pancakes again, then we watch Taken at the hostel (one of those films with no sympathetic characters, so I didn't really care if the good guys won) before my final night. It's not as heavy as I thought it might be. I must be getting old. Wander around Tallinn for a little while looking for a kebab shop but it's too good at hiding so I head back.
Estimated number of units today: 8
Estimated number of units total: 73
Estimated number of girls taken to bed today: 0
Estimated number of girls taken to bed total: 0
Monday, 9 March 2009
Day 13
Up, pastry from the supermarket and start my Tallinn wandering. I follow the 'walking tour' route - I figure if it worked in Riga it should work here. It is absolutely freezing. I spend about three hours running about seeing all the best buildings - the Russian cathedral is probably the highlight. Annoyingly in the non-Russian cathedral you can't go up the tower in the winter months.
Back to the hostel to make lunch and meet an American called Josh. We go out to the City Museum which is cheesy, but cheap and good for an hour or so. Back at the hostel I use the sauna again - hey, it'd be cheap at twice the price. Pick up some people for dumplings and we go out for food.
We head back to drink some supermarket booze then find ''the pub with no name'' (which is, hilariously, the name of the pub). As we don't meet any Estonians my whole night is concluded well before morning.
Estimated number of units today: 8
Estimated number of units total: 65
Estimated number of girls taken to bed today: 0
Estimated number of girls taken to bed total: 0
Back to the hostel to make lunch and meet an American called Josh. We go out to the City Museum which is cheesy, but cheap and good for an hour or so. Back at the hostel I use the sauna again - hey, it'd be cheap at twice the price. Pick up some people for dumplings and we go out for food.
We head back to drink some supermarket booze then find ''the pub with no name'' (which is, hilariously, the name of the pub). As we don't meet any Estonians my whole night is concluded well before morning.
Estimated number of units today: 8
Estimated number of units total: 65
Estimated number of girls taken to bed today: 0
Estimated number of girls taken to bed total: 0
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Day 12 - 8th March
Up at 10, which frankly is a herculean effort.
Leave hostel, doze on the bus to Tallinn. Find my new place, and again it's very good - free sauna upstairs which I take soon advantage of. It's a bit late to start a proper wander and I have two full days here, plus I'm knackered from lack of sleep, so I decide I'll take it easy, seeing as it's Sunday and all.
Have a brief stroll round the near part of town, then find somewhere for dinner - pancakes. Back to hostel, watch a film (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - very good film, for anyone who hasn't seen it), take advantage of the free fusball table and head to bed.
Estimated number of units today: 2
Estimated number of units total: 57
Estimated number of girls taken to bed today: 0
Estimated number of girls taken to bed total: 0
Leave hostel, doze on the bus to Tallinn. Find my new place, and again it's very good - free sauna upstairs which I take soon advantage of. It's a bit late to start a proper wander and I have two full days here, plus I'm knackered from lack of sleep, so I decide I'll take it easy, seeing as it's Sunday and all.
Have a brief stroll round the near part of town, then find somewhere for dinner - pancakes. Back to hostel, watch a film (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - very good film, for anyone who hasn't seen it), take advantage of the free fusball table and head to bed.
Estimated number of units today: 2
Estimated number of units total: 57
Estimated number of girls taken to bed today: 0
Estimated number of girls taken to bed total: 0
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