Today we woke up early as Artjoms had to go to work, however before he did he dropped us off at the Latvian Ethnographic Museum, a few kilometres out of the centre. We thought it opened at 9am, but unfortunately we had to wait another hour before we could enter. Mari was a total zombie though, so at least it gave her the opportunity to catch up on some sleep courtesy of a nearby bench. The ethnographic museum was a large park made to showcase the traditional Lat...

After a fairly average sleep in our crowded room, we were ready to get out of the hostel and into the city. We had heard about a nearby market, so we thought it might be a decent place to get some breakfast. Well, turns out we thought right. This was definitely one of the nicest markets I had been to in a long time. The range of food was seriously impressive, including lots of local stuff we'd never heard of and even an Uzbek bread shop. We went around trying lit...

Today was one of the bigger days on the Estonian calendar. It was the official opening day of the Estonian Song & Dance Festival in Tallinn, and thousands and thousands of people had come from all over the country to participate in the festivities. While we were just as interested as anyone, it posed a small problem for us: all accommodation was full (and much more expensive than normal anyway), and after some trying we realised that we would have to move on ...

Today was a pretty damn busy day, but really interesting. Tallinn had made a really good impression on us very quickly and after today nothing had changed. After breakfast I went to withdraw some money at an ATM (more on this later...) and we headed about twenty minutes outside of the old town, to Patarei Prison. Patarei was originally built in the mid-19th century as a defensive fortress (it's right on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, but after some y...

The day started early, because it was already time to move to the next location: Tallinn, Estonia. Ville was nice enough to give us a lift into the city centre, where we said our farewells, and from there we could easily walk to the port, as we were taking a big ferry across the Gulf of Finland in order to get to Tallinn. But first, a bit of drama at the ferry ticket office... We had reserved our tickets weeks before, but we had to pick them up from the office a...