Estonia

Alexander Nevski Cathedrale

At the first we went for spending the night to Tartu. The town was just in the rebuilding, this means many renovatings and to the opposite of Lithuania and Latvia a lot of traffic. Everything works here a lot of industrialized. The Hotel Rehe, a little bit beyond in the direction of airport, was the absolut bringer. When I booked the room by telephone the lady said immediately incl. sauna. I said okay and thought, many hotels have got, and asked for shower, WC and breakfast. The lady said, Yes of course and incl. sauna. Well I imagined and booked. When we arrived, I knew what she meant. Sauna, on every room!! Our room measured from the door up to the window good 12 meters. In between, bath with sauna, 3 seater sofa, bed, bedside table, bed, bedside table. Gigantic. The sauna has an electric stove and offers place for 3-4 persons. For it the breakfast was not so great. Further we went more than two manors with mansions Palmse and Sagadi (to the north of Rakvere), with excellent currants, to the coast and further to Tallinn. In Tallinn we stay in the Hotel Central something beyond the old part of the town.

Steam engine ice breaker

Here was our real purpose, the UNICA, the world film festivals of the amateurs. However, this went 1 whole week, but we visited only 2 days, the rest was otherwise planed. Town inspection, harbour inspection, with a guidance to very interesting steam ice breaker, One Day Trip to Helsinki, the Russian-orthodox Alexander Nevski Cathedrale, from where you got a wonderful look over the town. To food you can go in the Maharaja (Indian), Klafira (Russian), Esti Maja (Estonian), avoid the Olde Hanse. On the weekend is the town overrun with Finns for whom Tallinn is very cheap, especially the alcohol, must not say any more in addition.

Steam Engine Ice Breaker

Then it went to the west, and with the autoferry of Virtsu on the island Saaremaa. On Saaremaa our first purpose Valjala is a church, an old church from the year 1227. You cannot say renovated, there stand, actually, only the walls and the roof is on it, but you can adventurous wooden narrow staircases with missing or uncompleted steps in the roof framework of the church and from there in the tower. Nothing for night blind people, there floor-morose and the German accident association should also see that not. Then on the way back the contents of a whole group met me, then this was even more adventurous. Then we went to Kaali. Pay attention to the manner of writing, any specialist has the magnificent idea two places on one island immediately to call, Kali and Kaali, and only 10 kms each other distant. We had got lost retime. However, the search was rewarded, a total of 9 craters, biggest ca. 30 meters of diameter and 10 to 12 meters deep with embankments outside around and a small sea in the middle.

Youth style Ammende Villa

In the evening then we went Kuressaare to the castle. gigantic, with water ditch on you can drive with boats, inside a museum, connecting passages good as labyrinth between the single rooms and floors, great view of the merlons in the roof. Our Hotel Mannikabi is located approx. 11 kms to the west of Kuressaare and lies in a pine wood very quietly on the Baltic Sea. A day rest is announced, unfortunately the weather is too bad, but to take a bath probably it will be not warm enough with the sun in August, brrr. But for tennis it was warm enough. The others go up to south point to the lighthouse, a grit runway it must have been, as well as the car looks. The next day it goes with the ferry back on the mainland and in the direction of south to Riga. Occasionally we do just stop in Parnu to a small bathing resort with nice old part of the town, FKK beach only for women (unfortunately, no report possibly) and beach volleyball tournament. Interesting hotel tip, the Youth style hotel Ammende villa, there trusts one to itself already nothing at all to give a hand or subjoin themselves and then in it live, from approx. 300 DM in the junior Suite to 600 DM in the lux suite. But look is already great. Then we went for the last time, quite easily about the border, we got routine, to Riga/Latvia.

Published 02/27/2004
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