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Travel-Week

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  Rouven and Franzi visited me last week in Tallinn. I was so happy that they visit me and I can show them the city. We did a whole week of travelling and exploring of Tallinn, Helsinki and the surroundings. Since tourists can not travel for free in public transport we walked a lot and now I finally know how to find myself everywhere in Tallinn. Tallinn Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn Old Town Fishing in Estonia has not a lot of restrictions. Pensioners can fish completely free.  You can find a lot of flea markets in Estonia. They are selling everything from old tools up to antiques or some fruits like apples they collected in the woods. When you see these you feel spoor for the people, sometimes the value of all the products they try to sell for a day does not exceed 30€ old engine room from a coal - steam ship that sailed around the world Control room of an old submarine Tallinn has a big number of bars. This one offers live music and a modern atmosphere After the...

Vaasa in Finnland

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 I made a trip to Vaasa in Finland to visit Clarissa. She is currently doing her Erasmus at the Abo Akademi University in Vaasa. .  From Tallin you go by ferry to Helsinki which takes 2,5 hours and then you take one of the comfortable finish trains to Vaasa. In Finnland a lot of things look like directly out of the magazin, especially people in the cafes. Or the people in the restaurant in the train look like out of the advertisment from the Deutsche Bahn. I couldn't take pictures of people since it would be strange to be directly fotographed. The trains in Finnland are very spacious The E-Scooters are really common in Finland. Here you can see them in Helsinki. Tourism? No. Vaasa has no much to offer for tourists. Even when asking some locals directly they were overwhelmed by the question. On the other side there is lots of space, the City lies directly at the sea and the nature is beautiful. Vaasa's Zentrum isn't the prettiest A Fisherman group fishing on sunday afternoon...