Day 3 - Day 4: family & friends & food

I am still literally running out of time. There is actually nothing much to write, pictures talk for themselves so I guess you won't mind if I'll write all about later!


























































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Day 1 - Day 2

Oh my God! I have seen so many people in these last 48 hours that.. I think I did my personal record! The very first evening I spent at my dear friend Anna-Liisa's place with some other dear people, we did some serious catch upping while killing wine. It was so nice to meet them all after so long time. Then, yesterday, after some tea drinking at my great grandmother's house I went at a jazz concert in a small church. The jazz concert thing has become some sort of a tradition with my grandfather, I love it!! Later on I went in the Old Town to see my friend Kärt and ofcourse we still have to finish our talks because I had to run at my oncle's place! This morning.. I managed to see my other grandmother and now I'm about to go on a dinner with some family friends and then later on me and my girlfriends are going out! Crazy house... too many relatives... too many people to see!! Okay, but as I promised to you, here are some pictures, all taken with a small compact camera while running around, so don't mind they're nothing special but just to show you a little bit what have I been up to here! Wish you all a lovely night!

This is the church were the small jazz concert was held.


A small house near the church.


The church.



The church from the inside. Basically it was a Christmas jazz concert. There was a famous estonian actor Guido Kangur who read some poems in between the jazz pieces. It was very interesting.



Me and my grandfather!



The new big square in the center of Tallinn - Vabaduse Väljak, it's just at the beginning of the Old Town (note the medieval tower on the left). I took this while I was waiting for my friend.



While leaving my aunt's and oncle's place and going at my grandmother's this morning, this is taken from the other side of the Old Town.







At the sushi bar today.




Mmm...


Stay tooned...

PS! I hope to have some time to take out my good camera and take some serious pictures.. did you see how much snow?!
xxx

Tea and a little bit (read: a little too much) of chit chat...

...Too much because I don't have much voice today and my throat is hurting! Anyway, yesterday we had a little Christmas Eve at our friend Airi's place, she had prepared everything- from gingerbread cookies to meat and potatoes ! Delicious. I had such a great time, we exchanged gifts, we laughed and then we laughed again... a perfect evening. Here are some pictures. Hope you're having a pleasant night with your family and get nice surprises!

Driving home for Christmas, with a thousand memories...

Good morning everyone! Mm.. it's 14.01 here but I'm still in my pj's and I had a pretty long breakfast infront of my pc, surfing around blogs and different sites. Ahhh I just love Sundays, I usually try to spend it at home and relax.. as the rest of the week I tend to run around like a chicken without a head! Anyway.. It has been a busy week and emotionally stressful because of some bureaucratic things I needed to do at the bank (I hate hate and HATE AGAIN the Italian paper-work!)

and... tadadatatataaaa...

I finally bought my tickets to go to Estonia.

In the beginning I planned to spend the Christmas Eve here, with my family, and the New Year's Eve there, with my friends, but I ended up buying a cheaper ticket already from the 22th of December. I'm exited, oh sooo exited about going back! Because of my busy life, the last time I went there was summer 2008. So I can imagine how much the town (Tallinn) has changed! With my friends fortunatelly I have been in touch almost all this time, especially with my best friend Kadri, with who we took a dream trip to Sardegna and Nice this summer. There are so many persons who I've missed, so many things I have wanted to do.. Here's my list of things I plan to do:

-having a coffee-chit-chat with my girlfriends in the Old Town. We used to do it all the time in the winter time when it was cold and dark outside.

- visit to KUMU the art museum of Tallinn I've missed (check!)


- a real shopping tour in the vintage shops and second-hand markets. (In Italy everything that's vintage, has a triple price of what's it's actually worth. Crazy)

- visit my grandfathers studio or however could I call it, where he constructs his yachts. I've been there a couple of times when I was little, too little to remember anything. He's a genius. I intend to learn something from him this time.

- playing tourists-taking pictures tour around Tallinn, it's such a beautiful city and I want to post about it here, definitely.

- a girls night out with my girls! Ohh I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH! starting from the preparations at someone's place with few drinks and great gossip...

- a YOU AND ME DAY with my dear friend Kàrt. Taking pictures and cooking and talking and just relaxing...

- taking my grandma to the theathre & café for a cup of coffee and a cake!

All I really want is to enjoy the city, this time like a real tourist. I think it's not going to be hard. And all this thanks to Kadri, who really insisted on me going there!
Tallinn is really a pearl! I hope there's going to be a lot of snow, I miss it so much! Even though I'm afraid I don't have any boots neither clothes for the freezing Estonian wheather, lol. Need to do some urgent shopping!
If you're interested you can read all about Tallinn and tourism on this site (check!) and general information on wiki (check!)

I'm curious- has anyone ever heard about Estonia or been there? :)

And oh yes, I lived in Estonia for 15 years, then I moved to Italy, it was almost four years ago.
PS! I KNOW IT'S NOT 14.01 anymore... It took me a while to find the right pictures here;)