Things To Do In Tallinn In Winter, A Weekend in Estonia's Capital 🇪🇪 / Nishi V

hello from Talon Estonia it is I think - 6 but it feels like - 10 we landed in pretty heavy snow um we've just checked into our room um it's so nice this hotel we're staying at the Nordic Hotel Forum it's a bit of a mess cuz we've just literally brushed our teeth washed our faces put a bit of makeup on and now we are heading out for lunch three of us on this trip um me Jess and Bonita my cousin but we are doing slightly different things we W be together all of the time but we're in a bit of a rush because we have a walking tour booked in an hour and a half so we're going to walk down to a restaurant that we've scoped out nearby the meeting point have some lunch and then go on this 2hour walking tour but I'm so excited to be here I've actually never been anywhere and landed in proper snow did years ago in New Jersey we'd actually landed from Miami so we were kind of in our shorts and it was full on snowing and this is very much like that I'm so excited we're wearing all The Thermals all layers and so far it's so w inside everywhere that we've been but we're going to go down to the lobby and meet her I'm hot it's really hard to tell but I'm wearing a thermal top a t-shirt a jumper a massive coat two pairs of leggings one of those is thermal thermal socks and snow boots look at Jess's snow boots massive they really are and you've got all the thermals on too but this hotel is so nice if there one thing that I excel at is finding nice hotels obviously if I had a bigger budget I could find even nicer hotels but um yeah might not be able to see it on camera but look at this snow like it's just so exciting I know that sounds ridiculous but I'm actually really excited to be here I can feel the cold a little bit now actually but we're just waiting for Bonita some complimentary rye bread oh we're in a restaurant called uh vegan restaurant V it's very nice and cozy in here Bonita is actually sat all the way over there you had two tables of tea but we ordered the beetroot ravioli which actually looks a bit like beetro carpacio to me but it is so beautifully presented oh my God and yeah some bread with it I guess and this smoothie is it juice beetroot Ginger and some other ingredients it's really nice buck Buckthorn thanks this is like a really funny setup that's actually really nice I don't like juice or smoothies at all but I tried a bit of J it's really really nice oh my God that was like the nicest thing I have eaten in such a long time wasn't it amazing it was like an explosion flavors in my mouth vegan Cesar salad with a baked AR choke which smells incredible and what was this called J bre chicken breaded chicken but the chicken um it's vegan and it's made by a local Estonian man out of mushroom protein and the waiter said this is one of their most popular dishes on the menu it looks incredible it's got vegan caviar as well and it's on a taragan mash puree I think okay so you're in the right place I lived here and uh but I always say yeah half Estonia and half bulgarians so not the best example of how usually estonians act and look like here so a little understand Estonian history it might get a little bit confusing so now I'm just going to put the Tim so you can come a little bit closer as well I try to show it to everybody as well H so in that sense this timeline has all of the countries that have controlled Estonia at one point or another Estonian war of independence that you see here as well Estonian War Independence monument and this is Freedom Square if I talk about you understand when you are in the old town because if you go out of the Old Town you're going to go for a gate of the towers and this is one of the most popular museums to visit so if you haven't been in a medieval Tower anywhere else at least here in siland you have a chance to kind of go to the medieval Towers is like really bad we just got caught in a snowstorm but we're still persevering I think we're only about 30 minutes through this walking tour it's about 2 hours long but it's quite a few people that made it out today I'm frozen this coat is not waterproof so if it get soaked through then I'm going to have to find a radiator carefully you can see behind there you can see there's one Tower without the roof so that shows you that this is also kind of like AO castle and from the cliff side from the other side uh this area looks completely different it looks like your average medieval castle but the most important Tower of this uh Parliament building is tall Herman the tallest tower with the Estonian flag and for that if you want to see it we have to go to this park so the most important Tower we're just in the Oldtown Pharmacy which is actually still a proper Pharmacy um but it's the oldest Pharmacy in Europe and there's a museum here as well so this is the museum inside the Oldtown Pharmacy and look at these weing girls they're pretty cool um oh this is a collection of drugs from 1930 and over here actually I just saw some very disturbing things um this is a scorched hedgehog dog feces Sun bleached Viper fat dried deer penises and there's like snakes frogs oh my God this is horrific there's a little um TV screen here and you can select your language and it says that this um they don't really know exactly when this um building was built but there's been an apothecary shop here since 1461 that's kind of what it looks like now like the building hasn't changed it's just somewhere here but this has changed since then we have just ordered A Feast for dinner I am hungry dinner was okay it wasn't as good as lunch lunch was outstanding but dinner was decent we're now back at the hotel they've got a restaurant um and Bar here called noo and we're trying vanat talin which is a rum based lure that is an Estonian traditional drink um I'm very excited to try it because I have tried the two other traditional drinks um in the other two Baltic countries I've been to Lithuania and laia so I'm interested to see how this One Compares because I actually do like rum like dark Spiced Rum so the waiter has just told us that or the bman whatever has just told us it's 45% alcohol is very strong right yes yeah yeah okay I didn't know that abolutely so yeah I was just like wow I was like is that strong I don't know anyway yeah we're going to we need to order it actually thank you oh cute little Glass isn't it oh yeah you can really can you let me smell oh yeah wow just had my first Sip and is a little bit cough syrupy but it's not yeah it's not that bad I've had worse um cavona y don't what tastes like it's not bad it's not awful but it is strong like it went right on my nose it sweet yeah I think it has to be though I can taste vanilla in it it's got hint of vanilla is it I like it did you like it I like it y it's really nice you like vanilla might take me a little while to recover from this morning it's our second and final day here in Estonia um it's freezing today I woke up um Google weather no apple weather whatever it is says it is feels like- 17° we're going to get a travel card for the day which costs $550 we're in a shopping center so we need to go a shop called our kiosk um which you can buy like a travel card from which you then top up on an app on your phone so we just find I'm sweating inside because obviously I've got so and Thal on oh hello you scared me very hard to Vlog when we're out and about because it is so cold my eyes water my hands are frozen i' have to keep taking my gloves off but we're now inside a bus terminal there was an AR kiosk shop over there as well that um we're going to get the bus to a place for breakfast and then we're going to go to sea plane Harbor oh my God it is so beautiful here I actually have no idea where we are but just look at the snow look at this girl filming me it's stunning it looks like the sun is rising but guys I think there's actually sun today yesterday it was so great and overcast and it is obviously freezing like you can tell but oh it's just so nice he's about to throw a snowball at somebody bunch of kids look they're ruining the snow oh here we are that look perfect without your Footprints I want to lay down go on snowball fight I can't my eyes are this is so I don't want to get my fur wet a place called cringle for breakfast and this place is like recommended over every single blog that I've read um and the service it is so good so we um trying their Infamous egg butter which is a traditional Estonian dish um he actually let us try a teaspoon of it each before we bought it and it was so nice like I don't know if you guys remember from previous videos but eggs often give me the ick this tastes just like egg without the ick because I know that it's made from tofu this is a fully vegan or plant-based like C um I've ordered potato pancakes which are traditional and jff has ordered a banana and coffee smoothie bow um we're just sharing both like one sweet one Savory and then this as an added bonus but I'm very excited um potato pancakes we have potato pancakes and a coffee and banana smoothie bowl and our egg butter on rye bread which is so exciting [Music] wow this is one of the most popular um museums in Talon and I can see why because it's really good for kids as well it's very interactive they've got loads of areas downstairs where kids can play and it's just like amazing just to see like the ceilings are incorporated into the design um there's a description about each of their boats um in Estonian and in English which is obviously very helpful and there's a few big like iPad type screens on the walls where you can hear people speaking more about um the boats and how they design them too this particular canoe um was only Built very recently actually in either 1999 or 2000 and it takes um one person anywhere between 150 to 200 working hours um to build and like I don't know like you can't really tell by looking at it can you but it's not like super old History either because I'm sure most of us were around at that time it just kind of goes all the way around this building um and there's so much to read it's really fascinating actually I think more so because it isn't super old history like for example this bu was built in 2011 that was what 14 years ago no is that right yeah something like that I can't do maths or quick maths but there we go saying to these guys that this museum is actually really interesting because it's all broken down into sections and it's quite interactive and I said it's so much nicer than looking at things through glass cabinets and they were like look we found the glass cabinets but downstairs is like loads more interactive stuff oh is it working this is a build your own aircraft station oh [Music] [Laughter] yes swivel it around the actual size of this submarine is astounding it's huge I think we can go inside it I'm trying to find the entrance this is incredible everyone's walking around with sledges and all their kids are like sledding or sledging I don't really know how to say it down the hill it's something I've literally never seen before it's so cool isn't it J we're now walking towards the harbor I think there's some very colorful pretty buildings along there look at this oh my God that's epic around for ages trying to find the colorful wooden houses um but nobody's blog post actually gives you a street name so there's loads of like wooden colorful houses in this area called calamara calaya I'm not entirely sure um I can't find the iconic shop but I keep getting stuck in these big mounds of snow the snow goes up to my knees and then obviously my leggings get wet so it's a little bit annoying but we are now going to make our way towards the market I think Jess is just opening up his hand warmers that he's brought to put inside his gloves but I'm actually really warm um it's just my face because of the wind right we're at baly Jama which is the train station and right behind it it's a little bit difficult oh careful yeah okay nearly slipped got hold off by an old lady for walking on ice don't really understand what happened there but anyway we're at this um Street Food Market we're just going to have a little wand around maybe grab some lunch but from past experience I don't know sometimes markets are just very overhyped no matter what country you're in so we'll give it a quick look around and see if we can find anything but there's some more colorful houses we actually had dinner right there um next to that red building last night actually pancake place and Jass is getting a salmon and cheese pancake which is apparently their most popular one they do do just a cottage cheese one for me but I don't think I'm that Keen on it um and they do sweet ones there's Oreo blueberry and banana Nutella but um that's what he's getting and cheese yeah see yeah the pancakes right yeah that's itting excited for this we've got some vegan shrimp to share and a vegan chicken salad from this place over here called FEG machine and this bow bun place over here does some tofu bow bow as well but I don't know that we can manage that much food know when I last vlogged but we've been to two coffee shops um and we're back at the hotel I just fell over in the ice um it was really slippery I was holding my coffee landed on my shoulder on my back and in my coffee up so it's all down my coat and my arm I and with Jess and I are just waiting for Bonita cuz we're actually going to get a bus or something to a restaurant for dinner um the hotel was on the way and then get a bus from there to the airport um I'm going to end this Vlog here because I'm just so hot and bothered I need to go and take all my thermals off so I can sit on a plane um without like sweating my insides out but regardless we have loved Talon we were saying weren't we J I think we prefer Talon to Ria out of all the baltics someone else said that to me one of my friends she said that she preferred Estonia to laia and I think I agree even though the weather's been wildly different but anyway we're going to go to dinner and then from there we're going to get um a bus to the airport and fly home so we were literally here for 48 hours it was the perfect weekend like we left staned at 6:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning we're landing on Sunday night tonight at 10:00 p.m. UK time it was the perfect flight and a really cheap deal so so glad we came um it's been incredible but anyway thank you for watching and I will see you in my next Vlog bye