Wednesday, November 26, 2008

"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
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