OneLifeWhySoSerious: Tallinn

When we started writing down places to visit in Finland, we wrote Tallinn. Funny indeed!! It is Capital of Estonia Country. We all wanted to go there via Cruz. We three girls !!!

Three of us were on Business tour to Finland. We had collected information about Tallinn from colleagues who were been there. We planned visiting Tallinn on next weekend once we reached and settled in Finland.

One evening we reached Helsinki to get tickets. We have been told 'X' shop on 'Y' road sells tickets. We were near Campi and walking with Google-maps printout. Stupid me, dint use GPS ;)

On the way I asked one lady how far is 'Y' lane. She was worried, said 'Sorry there is no such lane'. Friends of mine tried explaining lane name to her. The lady was sure there is no such thing.

Suddenly something strike me. I showed printout to her which had destination name. She was smiling now and showed us direction.

"Kittos"

"Welcome" said the lady and we started walking.

Umlaut and Ring !!

We burst into laughing. We had totally forgot about pronunciation. Walking on stone road in chilly environment was fun. Three of us were enjoying burgers in hand and laptop bags on shoulder.

Shop was now in front of us. One of us read note put on the shop door.

She turned to us, and said "Shop is closed".

Clock-needles were just touching 6. We were discussing among ourselves that shop shutter is not closed, only glass door is closed. Should we knock and check?

"It closes at 5 pm"
It was very disappointing. To reach shop from Kilo, it took around 1 hour today. So if tomorrow we have to come again, we had to leave early from work. There was so much work, meetings lined up for all of us. So there was no chance for anyone of us to come here.

Before walking down, we had checked online booking. It needed euro-currency-filled account for net booking, which none of us had. ( While writing this blog, laughing on self. I was having Euro-currency debit card. Dint i remember that time or Did I try card and was it incompatible? Again stupidity)

We were now very sad. Sat in tram and then to train for home. Upon reaching we had dinner and slept. None of us were in good mood.

Next morning, we were better. No glimpse of yesterday was there. We got to know that on Cruz boarding terminus we get tickets, no need to go to any shop. And yeah this too closes early. We decided to go to terminus on Saturday, and if possible take tickets for Sunday. So one chilly Saturday, we been to port and bought tickets for next week's Saturday.

Tallinn day rose. Ship was timing was early-morning. We carried jackets, gloves as usual. Tram from Helsinki station to Port was full by people going to Tallinn. We boarded Cruz. Hoooooooo.. 8 story Cruz. It was my first experience to be in Cruz. It is far different than boats or Ferries. It had Cherokee(?), Shopping mall, Bar. Cruz took around 3 hrs to reach Tallinn from Helsinki.

Our ship to Tallinn

inside ship

Inside Ship

Another ship passing

Tallinn is famous for Old-City. We boarded onto Hopon-Hopoff bus. It showed us entire city.

It reached back to Port in an hour or more. We had entire day with us plus there is more fun in walking around than sitting on Bus roof. We walked down to Old-city on our own.