"Why was I born with such contemporaries?" - Oscar Wilde
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Baltics trip
Day 12 - 27th May - Tallinn, Estonia (Part 4)
Street
Juice bar
Church of the Holy Ghost spire
Altar. The triptych is by the Lubeck Master.
Pulpit
Nave
Beam and altar, Beam
Where the pre-pubescent girls who were running the UNICEF postcard scam got their postcards from
"Admission only to aliens" (I like the graffiti)
Olev's Guild/House of the Blackheads
"Hell Hunt. A.D. 1993. The First Estonian Pub"
It was quite sad that the first Estonian pub in Tallinn was only established in 1993.
Confusingly, this crest inside said they were established in 1653.
"Miss Fight"
The run down Estonian Patent Library
Street
We then entered St Olaf's. It was very bare, except for the altar piece, chapel painting and organ.
Altar
Chapel painting
Speaker towers. Now you just need to mount them on an Overlord...
Organ
Gravestones
Church door
Church tower
Tomb of plague victim Johann Ballivi, in exterior wall of church. We only knew about this from the guidebook - once again the signage in the Baltics was wanting
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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