title A Day Trip to Tallinn, Estonia - 2nd December 1999 intro Sis and Nosher get the ferry from Helsinki over to Tallinn in Estonia. There was something of an assumption that we would see loads of austere Communist architecture from the 1960s, thanks to Estonia's previous life as a Soviet Bloc country, but instead there's a very pleasant Mediaeval city with hints of Carcassonne, along with the sort of gentle decay that always seems attractive when it's somewhere else. scan2020-02-13-0026 One of the gates to the old city scan2020-02-13-0027 Down at street level near the city gates scan2020-02-13-0007 A Tallinn back-street near the city walls scan2020-02-13-0009 The candle-lit interior of Old Hansa restaurant scan2020-02-13-0028 Old Hansa restaurant est04 The cathedral Nosher and Sis visited scan2020-02-13-0031 Cobbled streets and steps scanes09 Some more decay est01 It's a bit like Carcassonne est03 Gentle decay scanest06 More cobbles est07 The Golden Tulip Hotel est08 A quaint Tallinn street est09 An old town square