Estonia and Tallinn City is that part of Europe which no body speak of or nobody goes to but it’s a beautiful city and a beautiful country, this country was under Russian Czar Rules during Peter the Great, then under USSR communist rule finally when USSR broke up Estonia became an independent country and later joined the European Union.
Estonia was always a Pagan believer then when Christianity came people changed their beliefs but today this country has only 15% believers rest are all non-believer.
Although it’s a small country it has beautiful landscape and Tallinn is a beautiful city with excellent connectivity and a port to bolster about. The other side has St peters-berg city and the Russian landmass. Estonia has a total population of 13.2 lacks people & Talinn has around 5 lacs people with a per capita of $34000.
Coming to the beautiful city of Talinn, there shopping malls are called VIRU, beer is called Saku, If you are Indian this names will start ringing bells in your head, Viru Means a brother in India and Saku is a girl’s name in north India, though the meaning of the names are different but otherwise if you see the city it resembles typical ancient Indian towns which surprised us,
The language spoken by them is Estonian which is related to Finnish & not Russian or Latvian languages which are Indo European; Estonian is more specifically connected to East Slavic and Baltic area.
there is a museum called Maritime Museum which takes you to the world of Vikings this museum is worth spending a day it is very beautiful & have preserved the times of Vikings,
you can find English speaking guides and even the locals speak English very fluently, we reached Tallinn in MSC Cruises and then did a local guide who made us roam around the city, we walked in the city to see around, the guide then took us to the president’s office & house, the premises was awesome very beautiful and it’s very easy to meet the president too. After spending an entire day we went to the market square of Tallinn, this market takes you back in time and one feels like we are doing treasure hunt as the square reminds you of past times, we did shopping here and then headed back to the Ship.
Tallinn can be reached easily if you do a Scandinavian Europe tour or a tour to St Peters-berg there are regular ferries from Finland and other close by countries. This part of the Baltic ocean is very beautiful & one should visit this country for its beautiful landscape and for the beautiful city and beautiful people.
Next we will post on a city called Kiel in Germany and its world war connection.
