Saturday, June 17, 2017

A few more pictures of Tallinn.

I believe we left off with a visit to the KGB museum in the Hotel Viru. We still had about four hours to kill before we had to board the ship back to Helsinki so we decided to have lunch at the top of the Radisson Blu. We ran into this statue on the way:
Check out those weird white eyes!
 Trying, unsuccessfully, to emulate the pose.
 The view from the top of the Radisson Blu:

 We had a very nice lunch and then went back to Old Town for a last visit.


 Look! A yarn and linen store! It seems that now it is summer that most of the yarn you will find is linen or flax. There is some Estonian yarn but it is just like the "plate" yarn you find in Iceland; very strong and coarse wool that is good for outer garments for the winter. I bought some yarn of course. You can see the thick, coarse, plate yarn on the lower shelves in the back.
Some albums in a music store:

 These almost life size dolls were everywhere in Old Town, kind of like our own Charles Schultz characters from Charlie Brown comics. Each one was different.
 We went into a Lutheran church that had carved wooden family crests on the walls. If you have seen Game of Thrones you still haven't seen crests to equal these, some of them were really elaborate.


We decided that coffee and a treat would be nice. I always feel that we should work for it so we climbed these stairs to get to the cafe.
 
 Really steep stairs and a chain to hold onto.
 Climb Beverly, climb! There's ice cream and coffee at the tops of those stairs.
 Our view.
 We were sitting just behind the Danish flag up there.
 Goodbye to Tallinn!

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