Thursday, April 9, 2009

Cruise to Tallinn

From Sunday until Tuesday, I went on a student cruise to Tallinn, Estonia. It was craziness! Think about 1500 college students being together on a boat. This is only waiting for chaos! It definitely was not my type of thing, but it was soooo much fun people watching! As I am typing, I am still laughing at the craziness...
Here is how the 3 day schedule looked:
Sunday:
11:30am: leave university by bus
5:45pm: leave port in Stockholm
Monday:
10 am: arrive to Tallinn
5:45pm: leave Tallinn
Tuesday:
10 am: arrive in Stockholm, take bus back to Karlstad
The few hours that we were able to spend in tallinn, were nice. Although the waeather was cold and grey, the city was really neat! It was very "European" with the cobblestone roads and ancient buildings. Not gonna lie, I felt a bit like I was in a Disney World village or something like that. It didn't seem real, the things that I was seeing. With the cobblestone roads, the buildings with so much history to them, a fort like wall running through part of the city, it was very intersting! Below are some pictures of the city.
I love the castle like look, with the fortress wall to the right
There were several of the little carts with wooden wheels around. Behind it, to the right, was either a bunch of people selling flowers or gloves (there was two different areas like this)
Cobblestone and narrow streets everywhere!
Ok, so this wasn't much of a post, but at least you can see a little bit of Tallinn! A new post should be up within the next couple of days. Karlstads Hockey team, FBK, won the the Swedish championship last night. Today there was a big celebration in the town square. Pictures and videos of that will be up soon!

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