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Baltics trip
Day 13 - 28th May - Tartu, Tallinn; Estonia; Selected pictures/videos from HWMNBN and YC

Me and my umbrella, on way to Tallinn bus station

Tartu town square

Socialist realism?

Their excuses for their actions in 1939: "Willing to escape from the worst, the Republic of Estonia still decided to preserve neutrality. This naivety and bona fide retaliated sorely already in the spring of 1940."

Polikliinik


Me walking down street

? (the thing above is the Town's Coat of Arms, but there's a crown above them, so presumably it dates from the time when they had a [foreign] king)

KJ Peterson statue and base

St John's Church front

Bridge running: running over the support arch is a ritual for students demonstrating bravery (IIRC). None of us cared to demonstrate ours.




More from the "Estonian jailbait dressed as toddlers having a foam party in the fountain in front of the Town Hall" series


More tankards

Products of Estonian industry

Me trapped by unstable cushions in the viewing area for the Estonian industrial production video

The kind of landscape we walked through on the way to find the Military Cemetery. Imagine occasional groups of young men walking around and you can imagine why it was a harrowing experience.




More Tallinn streets


Toompea, view from Toompea by night

Russian restaurant


Funky smoking room in club