Heading back to Latvia tomorrow for our last few days. Have had a great time in Tallinn, yesterday at the Kadriorg Gardens+Palace+Art Museum and today at the wonderful Seaplane Harbour Maritime Museum.
Kadriorg palace was built by Peter the Great for Catherine 1st but apparently she wasn't too impressed - we were!
Part of the art exhibition was about cleaning and restoring old paintings - really interesting. The gardens are huge and vary from very formal immediately around the palace to nicely wild further away, even a Japanese Garden.
Went to a jazz club in the evening, a big ensemble but they only played for an hour, shame as they were good.
The Seaplane Harbour was a ruin until 2010 but two years later it was rebuilt and houses a brilliant maritime collection - small boats, paintings, even a submarine,
with bigger ships outside.
Very well documented, lots of interactive stuff as well. The building is nearly as interesting as the boats!
Wandered back through bohemian Telliskivi now full of bars, restaurants and huge murals.
All great, would highly recommend Tallinn.
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