After breakfast we began the city tour on the bus. Our driver drove us to many spots, including the grounds of the Tallinn Song Festival where the first of many singing protests took place. Miina pointed to a photo and said she was there as a child.
Site of the first time the people sang during their singing revolution
Then we said good-bye to our bus driver and went on a walking tour of the old town. Again the old town had cobblestone streets. We walked by the Russian Orthodox Church, a cafe where Hillary Clinton liked to eat, ballet and music schools, shops, and street performers.
Red and buff roses at the flower market
Young woman playing an archlute in the old town
The city wall has some shops in it now.
Hillary Clinton liked to eat here.
After the tour Linda and I went to the Puppet Museum. We enjoyed walking through this colorful museum with such a variety of beautiful puppets. The displays were on three floors.
Very dramatic marionette in the puppet museum
Very interesting marionette
Flying dragon puppet
Puppets on display in the first room
After that, we started walking to the hotel where we would meet some of our group members for the KGB Hotel Tour. That tour showed how the Russians spied on people who visited Tallinn during the Russian occupation. We saw some of the spy equipment and heard stories of how and why people were spied upon.
Some spy equipment at the KGB Hotel Tour
Monitoring room that we saw on the KGB Hotel Tour
Then we went back to our hotel to relax a few minutes before tonight’s activities. At 5:00 PM Anneli Kritsman-Lekstredt talked with us about Estonian economics and related subjects about Estonia. I found it interesting that Estonia considers the United States its biggest ally. People in all of the countries that we have visited so far are very nervous about what would happen if Trump were elected. This includes Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. If the U.S. left NATO that would be catastrophic to them.
Our Raddison Hotel
We had another delicious dinner: salad, pork with plum sauce, green mashed potatoes, and a cream pie with berries on top.