Tallinn
Guild
July 16, 2005
We took the boat from Helsinki back to Tallinn and after arriving quickly found
our hostel and after checking in got addicted to the Tour De France. Lance was behind
today, but had this miraculous comeback to catch the pack. It was exciting and Lance
finished in front of all of his close competitors, although he didn’t win the stage.
After the tour we saw the city, it’s really nice, and extremely picturesque. It
feels as if the entire city was very well thought out, analyzed, measured, then
each brick placed individually to perfection. The city, however seems to move at
the same pace.
After dinner the hostel crowd began arriving and they were without a doubt a group
of drunks. An Irish guy wanted to know how to say “I was a difficult childbirth”
in Estonian to try to pick up girls. Another guy seemed to have no confidence and
simply walked around, not socializing, and finally Michael was, well he was insane.
He was born in California, but has been living in Berlin for a few years now and
I think he’s either extremely unintelligent, or his brain is fried from drugs. He
talked about drinking the entire time and then made up stories that weren’t even
good. At night he walked into the room as said in his mono-tone voice, “who brought
the snoring machine?” A couple times I woke up in the night and every time he sat
staring at a wall, awake I believe. In the morning he got up early and stared at
the wall, then he put this mud on this face and stared at the wall some more...
odd.
Skyline
Alexander Nevsky Church
Alexander Nevsky Church
Church
Toompea
Street wall