Little China, Tallinn

Advantages: The residue of earlier centuries
Disadvantages: The residue of the Soviet era

...masterpiece, complemented by elegant gardens in the French style. The Tsar loved Tallinn, but, fortunately or unfortunately, captured it from the Swedes after he had already founded St Petersburg to be his seat of government and “window to the west”; otherwise he might have settled on the Estonian city to be capital of the Russian Empire as well, with incalculable historic consequences. Inside the palace is an extensive collection of 16th-18th century Romantic art. Entrance is 45kr (£2.00), and for another 15kr (70p) you can see inside the cosy little house to the rear of the gardens where Peter stayed while the palace was being built and which is now a museum full of fascinating memorabilia of his stay. Again, well worth it. Also in the area are some attractive 19th century bourgeois houses in traditional wood-fronted style. Just beyond... Read review

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Advantages: 5 * cosy hotel
Disadvantages: Expencive

...ferry company. And the fares are reasonably priced. I think my lates ticket was only 50€ (return ticket) and you can get ticket cheaper than that as well. People: At last year there was only little bit over 300 000 living in Tallinn area. Half of peoples are estonians, less than 40 % russians (after all Estonia used to be part of Russian), and about 4 % are Ukrainians. Tallinn is also big university city Language: In addition to the native Estonian language (which is of the Finno-Ugric group, closely related to the Finnish language), Finnish, Russian and English are widely understood in Tallinn. For me "eesti-keel" estonia language is always been such a laugh, because is quite similar than finnish, but same words got different meaning. For excample finnish word meaning marrage is "marrage problem" (Naimapulma) in estonian language... Read review

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Advantages: Great Sights, Changing Culture.
Disadvantages: Difficult Language

...Introduction = Two years ago my wife and I decided that we were going to go all out and have a big holiday before we started a family. After setting ourselves a budget in the region of £4000 (including spending money) we finally decided to take a 12 day all inclusive tour of China's highlights and a three day extension in Shanghai. Going with Kuoni we would have transport, a guide and meals included as well as a cruise down the Yangtze river. I hope in this review to give you an impression and some handy hints shold you choose to visit yourselves. The Country China is the worlds most populated (1.3 billion) and third largest country (after Russia and Canada). It encompases a huge variety of climates from deserts to rainforests. Temperatures also vary greatly depending on where you are in the country... Read review

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