Tallin

This city in Estonia was really interesting. It is just a short ferry ride from Helsinki. The old town in it is a medieval walled city and classifies as a UN Heritage protected site. We climbed another tiny spiral staircase up to the top of the cathedral tower, and took a bunch of pictures. The group did a picnic in the park which was a great idea wine and cheese and bread and smoked fish... AWEsome.

The city seemed to cater to tourists, they had a great flea market. The souvenir to get was anything made from juniper wood which smells REALLY good. There were a lot of really nice cars, parked along the cobblestoned streets of old town, which made me suspect that there was a mob influence in the country. This suspicion was confirmed when we met with a Finnish architecture firm and they talked about how Estonia is slightly risky to do business with because of their mob affiliations, but that all the good, cheaper materials and workers come from there.

We visited a new development with my professor, and cut through a back yard from a public path along the water and had to scale a private garage door to get to the street. Then we tried to break into the graffiti'ed-over concrete soviet institutional abandoned music hall where the ferry dropped us off. Fun day of trespassing, it's all in the name of academics. Right? Ha. I'm just glad there is another monkey with no fear of getting caught jumping a fence on the trip.