Tallinn

Tallinn is one of my favourite cities in the world, probably. Located in Estonia, at the top of the Baltic states, it's a beautiful city of two halves. The first half is the one which tourists flock from around to see - the Old Town. And there's a good reason why, it's a beautiful place, full of cobbled streets and soaring towers. It's a great city to go and lose yourself in as the small alleyways are as beautiful as the open squares. The Old Town centres around the main square - Raekoja Flats, which is a great place to sit at a pavement cafe or bar and watch the world go by. Further up hill is Toompea, a kind of craggy cliff with some beautiful churches on, ...  Read the complete review

Last summer, I spent three months in Helsinki with a summer job. Four two months of the three, my boyfriend joined me. As something to do, it was recommended to us that we take a day trip to Tallinn in Estonia. This we did one sunny weekend and we had a great day out. There were a huge number of museums and galleries that we didn't look at, a huge number of shops we didn't go in and a vast number of traditional Estonian restaurants that we didn't have the space in our stomach to try. This is just a brief description of our trip; there is plenty more in the city that we didn't see. ~~~ Getting There ~~~ There are plenty of boats that go from ...  Read the complete review

I was a little disappointed not have got to Tallinn before the stag parties but its proximity to Finland where I was holidaying last September coupled with the touristic worth of Estonia's capital city meant I would have been foolish to let a few drunken Brits put me off. As it turned out, the irritations came from another group altogether.... Some geography.... Tallinn is situated on the Baltic Sea a couple of hours across the water from Helsinki. The Russian city of St Petersburg is a couple of hours north east along the coast and Estonia is the most northerly of the three former Soviet Republics referred to as the "Baltic States". ...  Read the complete review

Fortunately, I knew in advance that Tallinn wasn’t going to be the way it looked as we came in to land, or I might have felt depressed. The plane’s flightpath brought us in from the east, flying over the dreary sprawl of apartment blocks that disfigures so many cities scarred by a Soviet past. And quite a few without a Soviet past, of course. I knew that amid the sprawl I would find an attractive historic centre – a World Heritage Site, no less – with other monuments and places of interest scattered around the outskirts. And so it proved. I also found a clean and prosperous-feeling city, very modern in places, capital of a country, Estonia, that has grown ...  Read the complete review

The Tallinn Card is a great idea for anyone heading to this beautiful medieval city. The card allows free and discounted entry to many of the sites of the city and offers discounts at both shops and restaurants around the Old City. Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is a popular destination for tourists with the country’s entry into the EU and the arrival of low cost airlines. My wife and I visited the city in May 2004, crossing by bus from St Petersburg and then fly out to London on Ryanair. We spent 3 days in the city staying in the old area just outside the city walls. The Tallinn Card can be purchased at various locations around the city; we got ...  Read the complete review