Rest Eesti

7.11.06

We're currently still in Estonia (Eesti, as it's known in the local lingo), recharging the mental batteries after Russia and hoping to plan the rest of the trip, etc.

Tallinn is a lovely town, with a medieval central part that somehow seems too cool and olde worlde to quite be real! The hoardes of tourists add to the Medieval-Disneyland feel, but we have managed to avoid the worst of them by laying low over the weekend and being here in the off season.

We made a pilgrimage to the Depeche Mode bar the other night. Yes, it's a bar, entirely devoted to Depeche Mode! It's the place where everybody knows your music taste (they played entirely DM while we were there) and is actually quite a cool little venue. Apparently the band were there to open the place in 1991 (?) and revisited earlier this year, the signatures on the wall above the bar attest to this fact. We met about 10 drunken Londoners there, who seemed Okay, but must admit that when we saw them the next day around town, we hid!

What else can I tell you? Feeling a bit flat today, still getting over a bit of a sore throat caused by St Petersburg's combo of clubbing until 3am (at a fantastic little place called Datcha, where we were befriended by amusing Russians called Boris), followed by queueing for nearly THREE HOURS in the snow to get into the Hermitage (worth it but I thought I would end up with frostbite that day.) Followed by a long cold busride accross the border. I think my feet are finally warm again ; )