We woke around 8 and it was pretty quiet and warm. After a shower we went outside inthe almost empty street and walked to a place called caffeine for breakfast. I had some quiche and a chai latte and Kaoru had a choc filled choc coated croissant with a coffee.

After breakfast we went to the tourist information to buy a Tallinn card – €26 each for free entrance to a number of places. Now to try to get value for money!

After our teeth we followed a walking tour i found online (from the app Izi). We skipped the first point (will pick it up later) and the second (town hall-just near our hotel) hadn’topened. ..So on we went to point 3. We followed the walk as best we could-sometimes it was hard to read it off the map.We stopped at a number of places including…

-puppet museum
-wall walk
-nuns tower
-Epping tower

-kgb headquarters

We went to our room to get something warm as it was now going on 3 and we were about to leave the city. On the way we bought some pancakes (15, but they were bitesized) and some ice cream. After recharging we walked to the bank and saw an exhibition there, and then caught a tram to the skywheel. The map we followed said to catch a number 2 tram but enroute Kaoru found another which said number 2. So we got off where they branched and could see the wheel, so walked the rest of the way.

The wheel was on top of a shopping centre so we had a walk through there. We got 10%off with our Tallinn cards. At the top we were given a great view of the city and surrounding area including the airport and harbor.

We found a cafe in the shopping centre and had a beer, dumplings and soup. They also served some black bread. Kaoru asked if it was for dipping in the soup and the lady looked shocked. There was a tube of mustard which we put on the bread. All fantastic. I wasn’t hungry at first but the dumplings were great with the beer. We then went to the supermarket to get some snacks for tomorrow. Water here was 3 times what we paid yesterday so we didn’t get that, but we were able to get some pastries cheaply. We then caught the tram back to the old village.

On the walk back to the hotel we got to see the main gates (spot 1we bought a couple of waters and picked up some last sites. We dropped our bags back in the room and went out for dinner. Kaoru had found a restaurant which had good reviews so we went there. Because we didn’t have a reservation we couldn’t get a seat inside but there was one “walkup” table left so we took that. We ordered mushrooms for entrée, i ordered the elk for main and Kaoru got the white fish; with a sparkling rhubarb for Kaoru to drink and I had a bottle of cider. The meal was also served with some black bread.

I shouldn’t have had those dumplings! not being mega-hungry, plus being tired, and no normal food time for so long, made it really hard to eat. Somehow Kaoru managed to still have a blue cheesecake for dessert!

Back at our hotel we got our bags organized for the next day which meant packing as much as possible so as to not be too busy inthe morning. We set an alarm for 745 and were in bed by 10pm!