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Tallinn was a major port of the Hanseatic League. It still retains a lot of German flavor.
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The Guildhall.
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Okay , kids, this is going a bit too far. Enough atmosphere already.
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Elin is happy to hear we are going in for a cup of hot coffee.
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Hard to see, but this empty area is a small residential zone bombed by the Russians as the Germans retreated. Although Tallinn received some aerial bombardment very little of the city was damaged.
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Here we are in Paldisky, a closed Soviet submarine base until 1994. We had to see it. There is still a lighthouse and some other installations along the once heavily fortified shore.
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The blue Baltic. It's the color of my Russian jeep.
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Don't step too far back. That is a cliff behind you.
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More decaying Russian infrastructure.
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