When I arrived at my hostel in Riga today, I was just in time for the free walking tour. As it turns out, there are even two different free walking tours around Riga, one at 11 and the other at…
7th day: Tartu
This time my daily report is a little delayed. Right now I’m already sitting on the bus to Riga. Yesterday was a rather quiet day. I spent most of the day walking around Tartu. I also visited the AHHAA Science…
6th day: Tallinn to Tartu
Today I traveled from Tallinn to Tartu. Tartu is Estonia’s second biggest city with almost 100.000 inhabitants and is an important university city. The bus trip by Lux Express was very nice, there was plenty of space in the bus…
5th day: Eastern Estonia
Today, I went on another organised day tour to the eastern parts of Estonia. Technically speaking I’m still on this tour which is why I upload this post without any photos right now. I already made a selection of photos,…
4th day: Bicycle tour from Tallinn
Today I wanted to visit the Kadriorg park, the beach and Tallinn’s TV tower. Because the weather was very nice I decided to rent a bicycle to go there. The ugly concrete building is the Tallinn Linnahall. It was built…
3rd day: Lahemaa
Today, I went on a day trip to Lahemaa, which is Estonia’s biggest natural park. The name means „land of bays“. It was almost a private tour, it was just the Dutch guide, his Estonian girlfriend, a Californian couple and…
2nd day: Helsinki to Tallinn
Today I took the ferry to Tallinn. On the sea it was extremely windy, I was surprised that they didn’t close the outer decks! Because of this the ship moved quite a lot, however I didn’t get seasick 😉 I…
1st day traveling: Helsinki
On arrival to Helsinki yesterday I just bought something to eat and headed straight to my hostel to go to sleep. It was 9pm and I was exhausted by getting my things in Tampere in order. My hostel is nice,…
Departure from Tampere and off to new horizons
The time has finally come for me to leave Tampere. Last week has been filled with goodbyes as more and more of my friends left and now I’m going as well. I am taking with me great memories of an…
St. Petersburg (again)
Note: I wrote this article in January 2016, I am dating it back so it fits in order. On the way back from Moscow to Finland we stopped again in St. Petersburg. After a nightly bus ride we arrived there…