Sunday, Day 1: Jyvaskyla - Tampere - Helsinki - ESTONIA - Tallinn - Parnu

Cruising from Helsinki to Tallinn

Me, Petri and JP took the train from Jyvaskyla to Tampere, where we had a rendezvous with Aleksi and our car for the trip. As we took off from Tampere, it was time to do some final minute booking and get a room from Parnu, Estonia. Since we live in Finland, there's not much else to write about getting to Helsinki. We had a 2 hour ferry ride to Tallinn, Estonia and after that it was time to get the trip properly started!

The ride from Tallinn to Parnu was a quick one, only couple of hours. There was not much traffic on the road, but we enjoyed giggling to all kind of signs beside the road. Why, you ask? Estonians speak somewhat similar language compared to us, but how it's written and spoken is amazingly funny. But, most likely it's also the other way around, Estonians visiting Finland will laugh at us. Completely win-win situation!

The sea of... Estonians have a funny language (sorry, understandable only for Finns)

We arrived to Parnu late evening, found our guest house and after a small hassle and small language and understanding barrier we checked-in. The owner said something about Finnish not ever reading details and all sort of things, whcih probably was partly being humor and him partly being annoyed by Finns. Can't blame him though, at the moment he had a drunk Finnish motorcycle club in his premses. But it was all the same for us€, we left our bags and went to do some sightseeing. Parnu is a small town, but it's enjoyable to walk in the old quarters for a while and get something to eat.

Just after midnight, it was time to get some sleep. Which we really didn't, as the room was hot and moist and getting good night's sleep was impossible.

Walk this way. Or walk this way. Walk in between!

JP and Aleksi posing in Parnu, Estonia