Tallinn 2024: music

I stopped by the Estonian music and theatre museum on my rambles this week. I also recorded some found sound in the St. Nicholas Church during the organ recital. Here are the final minutes of Bach’s great passacaglia and fugue in C minor, BWV 582, as performed on Sunday, 28 July, by Tiit Kiik. From

Tallinn 2024: not old town

I skirted Tallinn’s old town on Tuesday, choosing to spend my hours without walls pressing in from all around, and without the constant scrum of tourists from the tour boats moving in gaggles and glops through the cobblestone streets. I notched 14,300 steps on Tuesday. First stop was Røst bakery, which the internet suggested was

Tallinn 2024: breakfast

The Hilton Tallinn Park has a sumptuous breakfast buffet, as expected at a four-star international hotel. It also has large guest rooms, comfy beds, some of the best pillows I’ve found at Hilton properties (where to maximize points I tend to stay pretty religiously), a huge bathroom and glorious shower plus a tub, and floor-to-ceiling

Tallinn 2024: more old town

Monday was a day for me to wander. I had a list of places to visit in Tallinn’s old town, and so I did. But not before first having a massage at the hotel. Selfie of the day, from Tallinn’s 1400s-era town hall: From the primary town church, the Toomkirik: I prayed for a while

Tallinn 2024: transit

Photos (click on pic for an explanation) from a transit day . . . . Transit day: 3 A.M. alarm. 3.47 A.M. transit to Heathrow. By 5 A.M., through security and immigration and at the lounge for a full breakfast. Both flights on time. Rather sterile terminal at Stockholm, so a lunch from the only

Abroad

The trip abroad next week is taking clearer shape. While I’m in London, I shall: I’ve also booked a walking tour in Tallinn, Estonia, and two walking tours in Istanbul, Türkiye. My Istanbul research is not yet complete, nor is Tallinn —