An early start for everybody as we were heading to Tallinn. The weather was sunny, but chilly, in the afternoon with showers. Our history teacher Raigo showed us around the old town. First he took us to the Upper Town called Toompea. We saw the parliament house, Dome Church with lots of coats of arms, visited viewing platforms, tasted fried almonds made by medieval recipe. Later we walked down the narrow street called Lühike Jalg (Short Leg) and visited market square with the town hall and everybody could pop in to different souvenir shops. Later we had an excursion in underground bastions and after that our bus took us to the song festival ground, drove by the seaside and through residential area which represents the Soviet architectural style or more accurately the lack of it. We also walked in the park near the presidential house which still was full of flowers. In front of the figure of Neptune/Poseidon we had a group photo taken. After checking in the hotel, we went to a medieval restaurant to attend Merchant Guild's feast. We could taste and eat lots of different things, some of them perhaps not in the most expected way. (for example an appetiser onion jam or Crusader's lentils sauce etc). We couldn't expect to have electricity in such place, so it took time to get used to the dim atmosphere. Our table master Miguel made sure everybody had enough food and drinks. :-)
Saying good-bye is always difficult to such nice group of people, but we managed to do it by knowing that it is not the end, but the beginning of our friendship.
Photo: Gazi Özdemir
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