Holidays

Since I was young I have always wanted to travel the world and see different places. So far on my list of countries I have visited there is: Menora, Gran Canaria, Greece, Dublin, South Africa and Russia. Now, I can tick off Estonia. My friends who moved to Russia to plant a church in 2008 have now hopped across to Tallinn the capital of Estonia. So I booked some tickets to come and visit them. 

One part of Tallinn is very old (hence the name Old Town) and quite medieval, with cobbled streets, places lit only by candle light and people around dressed in traditional medieval clothes. The other part is new, full of hotels, skyscrapers and busy roads. 

My friends live very near to the Old Town. I love it. It's full of character and personality. My favourite place in the Old Town is this...... 

.....a tiny little coffee shop.  Lit by very dim lights and candles. We put our feet up and enjoyed a hot chocolate which had real chocolate melted in the middle ... One word ... Amazing. 

It's feeling very Christmassy here, the Christmas markets opened on Saturday and the atmosphere was great. Children on stage were singing Christmas songs in Estonian and in English, the smell of mulled wine and Estonian food was in the air and there were stalls full of goods. It was magical.