Day 9 September 16th Tallin

We awoke this morning to
find mixed sun and cloud as we approached Tallin and another 

medieval Tallin

"fat Margaret" tower

new country for us - Estonia.  By the time we had breakfasted the boat had berthed and we were off on the ten minute walk to the old town by 0930.  The entrance point we were given was a tower in the old city wall called "fat Margaret".  It was unmistakable and we soon entered the quaint old city.  It was like walking through how the city must have been in medieval times with only the 

Monastery with headstones

occasional disruption of a car/van delivering people and supplies.  The streets were narrow and cobbled with some of


spires and roofs from city walls

them too narrow for vehicles.  We walked through an old monastery area where there were some 14th century headstones.  We continued and found a tower where  we could climb up and walk along some of the original 

Christine meets an old friend

city walls.  We stopped for some coffee and had a look round town hall square.

We wandered on through the squares and streets, visited some 

church at top of the town

of the old churches and carried on round to the higher part of the city from where we had a good view of the whole roofline.   It was so interesting to see both here and in Riga the architecture 
 from centuries ago.  We dropped down to the old town level and followed the city wall back to "fat Margaret".  We 



the city walls

then walked the few minutes it took to get back to the Pacific Princess.
 

Pacific Princess