I feel basically the same way about Tallinn, Estonia that I felt about Split, Croatia. It’s a cool place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live here. Which makes sense. Both cities are cruise ship ports, and as such host mobs of tourists every summer. Now throngs of tourists aren’t necessarily a show-stopper; Prague,
Tallinn’s medieval Old Town (described in my previous post, and the one before that) is lovely, but the teeming hordes of tourists started to get on my nerves pretty quickly. I suppose if I’d been able to afford to stay inside Diocletian’s Palace in Split, or in Prague’s Old Town or Castle Quarter — the
Tallinn’s spectacular Old Town is worthy of two blog posts. In my last one, I covered Toompea, the walled “upper town” that, historically, housed Tallinn’s aristocratic and religious leaders, and its military forces. In the mid-1300s, the city’s mainly German merchants and artisans, wanting a little autonomy from the city’s rulers — at the time,