Tallinn – Climbing the Toompea

Tallinn – Julia on Toompea, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia.

And another city I would absolutely love to revisit before this year is out, is Tallinn. I spent three days in the city in early March 2002; the first day it was raining cats and dogs, the second it was extremely cold, and on the third day the sun was shining. It was just a few months after my marriage, and we to Tallinn because there my late husband could get a working visa without necessarily going to Britain. Back then it was me to had to get a visa to go to Estonia; nowadays it’s different. The picture was actually taken on the first day, soon after we dropped the bags at the hotel and paid a visit to the British consulate. The bag on my shoulder was soaking wet by the end of the day, but I had the ball of walking in my first real medieval European town – a few months before submitting my Russian MA dissertation in Medieval and Early Modern History.