She was such a light! She gave us the sweetest note with our bread pudding and when we asked for Independence Day recommendations, she came back with a whole list! She was so kind and fun and so proud to be Estonian, which made me so happy. While the food and atmosphere were incredible, our waitress, Kristin, stole the show. They can be too mushy or too dry and it is easy to get it wrong. Now, I’m from the South so I consider myself somewhat of an expert on bread pudding. I got the pulled elk meat on puff pastry with root vegetables and a sour cream + herb sauce with an Estonia honey beer (tasted like a shot of honey with a bud light aftertaste), and we ended with a bread pudding. We made reservations at Rataskaevu 16 because I had seen countless rave reviews… and it did not disappoint. We went back to the hotel to nap and get ready for dinner. They have no lights in the restaurant outside of candlelight, so if you don’t like eating in the dark (like me), then this may be tough for you. So I got the soup (amazing), water (needed), and the apple pie (divine) and it was €7. They have no utensils and only have a daily soup, a giant roasted pork leg, 3 pies (apple, spinach + herb, and carrot They also have beer, water, and lingonberry juice. It was such a fun experience! It is about as authentically medieval as you can get.
I didn’t trust my suitcase or backpack or myself to carry quite a few fragile items throughout the airport and around the world.Īfter Masters Courtyard, we ate lunch at III Draakon. We got a tracking number and she said it would take about 2 weeks to arrive. I ended up shipping these back for around €30 (UPS quoted us €100 minimum), which included the materials and the shipment. The ceramics are all made my local artists in house so it was incredible to see the variety of styles and looks of the different pieces. We found a wood shop and a ceramics shop that we spent about an hour in… I got a pair of sheepskin mittens at the wood shop and countless of ceramics from the ceramic shop. We visited Master’s Courtyard, which is a tucked away courtyard with local workshops and a chocolaterie. After the massage, I got breakfast at the hotel because it is one of the best hotel breakfasts out there.Īfter my massage, we went back to Old Town and walked around.
I got a full body hour-long massage for €70 this time. Neal and I got an hour-long, full body couples massage for about €120. The massage therapists are so great and the massages are so inexpensive compared to American massages. The next morning, I got a massage at the hotel. They do have an underground club that opens later, but we had stayed out until 4a the night before in Berlin and didn’t take a nap that day lol. It was REALLY good and super fun to drink out of test tubes. I got “coolant,” which was vodka, strawberry liqueur, and sprite. and are ranked by the strength of the drink.
The drinks are in test tubes or beakers and have names like “coolant,” “C-4,” “Fentanyl,” etc. Labor Baar is a science fair/mad scientist themed bar. I was so excited!! I was going back!! I would have more time! Here begins my love letter to Tallinn. Initially, we were planning on going to Prague and maybe Dublin during this trip, but ultimately made the decision to go to Tallinn. I convince my friend to buy tickets within 30 minutes of telling her about them, and we plan our trip to Berlin. Fast forward to 2020, I find $371 RT tickets from Memphis to Berlin. As soon as I walked into Old Town, I begged Neal to skip Helsinki and let us stay an extra day in Tallinn since we only had about a day and a half on that trip (we ended up keeping our plans and going on to Helsinki, which was just okay in my opinion). I went to Tallinn in October 2018 with my boyfriend and it was more of a stopover between Krakow and Helsinki since you can take the ferry for around $35 from Tallinn to Helsinki.