Ancient and Modern

From the city walls, looking out in the late afternoon sun, you can watch the boats sailing for Finland and Sweden, and imagine an earlier time when stout cogs weighed anchor and set sail in the stiff spring breeze - bound for towns as far afield as Lübeck or London.

I've traded Stockholm this weekend for Tallinn and a different taste of Baltic life... The walls of the Hansa city still ring the old town and from their vantage point you look out over the rising towers of the new centre. Ancient charm giving way to modern ubiquity?

The old city does hold the charm... within it's cobbled streets and alleys, behind the medieval facades we find plush and eclectic coffee shops for herb tea, or rich hot chocolate, and the hushed chambers of an exclusive restaurant. How sweet, how fine...

And what's not food for the body is food for the soul. Rachmaninov and Schubert .. and art, as old and as new as this lovely city.

All in all a lovely weekend - even if I was feeling very ancient..

Tänan tien Eha!