Beach
Museum
Tram home
lunch at home - hot chocolate with sprinkles
Bought new jacket.
Shore line walk - Prison, tower
Dome Church Concert
Dinner with Marcus - Pizza, ice cream, Card game.
Sunday
Song Festival Grounds
Another bitterly cold windy day. Another music venue. This is the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds. Every four years many thousands create a choir and many more come to listen and I assume sing along. We took the bus from down town and walked around.
After we had looked around the song festival grounds we walked down past the shell and out the lower gate. It was blowing a gale but Megan had spied the sea so we just had to go and look at the beach.
Beach
The beach was a beach in name only. coarse sand with dirt and grass. solitary ducks looking at the water. A shipping container brightly painted and offering surfing. Ominously it sported a chimney.
About now I was thinking hot chocolate and maybe a pee.
Museum
Megan mentions hot chocolate and then spots a building in the distance in the park so off we trudge. It's closed of course but spectacular gardens. Megan advises she needs a pee and so we had better find a cafe.
The sign says cafe 50m. Google says it's open. Alas it is closed. We see a restaurant in the distance and begin to walk. It's closed. Consult google need tram #1 and wallah one comes past. The tram stop is 100m back up the road. We start to run. I'm thinking it will leave without us. We get on and sit .... and sit. Finally it starts up and takes us home.
Arrive home and there is competition for the toilet.
Ahhhh
Then it's home made hot chocolate using chocolate sprinkles - most excellent.
Down to the local shopping mall called Nautica and bought me a new jacket. This one has a hood. It's 2XL but I suspect a skinny version. It was the largest size they had. Either all the fat people have already bought this years jacket or more likely no fat people in Estonia.
Afternoon Walk
Linnahall Revisit - Daylight this time
We met up with Marcus and commenced a walk along the shore. We revisited Linnahall. This time in the day. Interesting we could see in through the doors to the administration section and the lights were on. The doors were locked and a sign warned of shooting.
Walked past the old soviet jail. Also closed. A pity both places would make good adventure tourism locations.
Marcus and Dan peeled off and returned to their respective homes.
Concert
Megan, Frank and Jemma proceeded to walk toward the Dome Church with the intention of listening to a concert. This necessitated climbing a serious set of stairs. We had come down these stairs in the tour the other day. This time we were going up and it's good exercise. This time it was not raining and that was a bonus. Much more pleasant and a better view.
Town Hall Square
After the concert we went to "Town Hall Square" again. The key point was to visit the markets and buy last minute Christmas presents. Megan and Jemma rushed around and I bought a glass of hot wine called "Glog". The present buying took a while as the wanted stalls seemed to have vanished in the crowd. Finally another glass of Glog and we were away. Walked to freedom square and took the #5 bus back. Dropped into home for a pee and to warm up. Then Megan and I went to the supermarket.
At the supermarket bought freshly made pizza (~€8) and other supplies for the Christmas feast. It's quite hard to find things in a foreign store full of foreign labelled goods. Obviously becuase their tastes and diet are different to ours, the range of food it different. Google Translate was mildly helpful but it's grasp on the Estonian language is not as good as it's mastery of Dutch.
Cream to whip or whipped cream seemed impossible. We did end up with something but we wait and see.
Back to the unit. Pizzas into the oven to reheat / keep hot. Marcus walked over. We had a very enjoyable dinner of pizza & wine followed by dessert of banana and a small slice of the Estonian version of Vienetta (Ice cream)
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