“just lean against that gate for me”
Helsinki-Tallinn
Up early in Helsinki on a Sunday morning, or least what must be considered early in Finnish terms, 10am. Literally no one on the streets, nothing was open and no one was out and about, not a single churchgoer or walk of shamer to be seen. We couldn’t even get a coffee. We couldn’t even get the door to the car park to open as it didn’t open until 10:30 (what if we had the 7:30 ferry?!). We finally found the sole Finn up and about to let us in, at which point we panicked because Milo was gone… We looked at the spot, we looked at each other, we thought about it, we discussed it, we quietly panicked. We looked at the spot again, and thought harder, we had come up or down… wait… we were on the wrong floor of two floors.
After finding Milo, loading him up and giving him a few minutes to purr (growl) awake we set off sans coffee for the ferry, which of course wasn’t very far away because all Scandinavian cities are tiny. Got on the ferry, found a spot in the sun, Jonathan (of course) had a nap and then we arrived in Tallinn.
After looking at the map I was worried we were too far away from the old town, then I looked at the scale and realized that each inch was 100 meters and therefore I could throw a rock and hit the old city wall from our hotel, once again a tiny city. Our hotel was in gentrified warehouses which was very cool but we set off for old town nonetheless (besides the whole area could have been covered in ten minutes).
Old town was very beautiful, as all old towns are. And it was mostly just another chance for us to show off what terrible tourists we are. We are terrible, terrible tourists. The Lonely Planet says Tallinn could be done in 3 days or a week, we did it in 45 minutes. We wandered for 2 hours more of course, but what people do in an area less than a square mile for a week is beyond me. We went to see Batman.
No seriously, we went to see Batman.
Predictable but it elicited a few tears from both us (who cry at everything), well done Christopher Nolan, well done.
After the movie we drank a bottle of wine in the park like a couple of teenagers and discussed the merits of Star Wars v’s The Lord of the Rings, movies stars that we get confused by (Susan Saradon/Sigourney Weaver, Erick Eckhart/Viggo Mortenson, Gennifer Goodwin/Jennifer Mortinson, Kiera Knighley/Natalie Portman), and whether or not the Chinese are cheaters (they are). Afterwards we had a delicious dinner and strolled back to the hotel only to find (much to Jonathan’s chagrin) Great Britain still had not won a gold metal (USA, USA).
Day 14
