Up north to Tallinn

The tram took me to the central station through Riga Center along beautiful Art Nouvau streets. I went to the market halls first to get some coffee and cake for breakfast, and some food and water for the six hour trip to Tallinn. Altogether I paid not even 1,50 Euro, including three delicious hotdogs and piroges filled with cabbage and meat resp. - can you imagine!
The bus ride was rather boring and tiresome, even though I enjoyed the views on the sea shore, shrubs, farm lands, wooden houses, the villages, and ever so often storks stalking around.
I texted Lari to know where and when to meet, since Batmanu aka Agnes from HC-chat hosted him already and will host me on Sunday. Saturday we will have to share her small room, since she forgot about having promised both of us we could stay. He texted back that he'll meet me at the bus station. So it will be another day with this nice guy!
Hopping off the bus at Terminal A, he was already waiting for me. Then a shout:"Annetteeeee!" A girl came running towards us: Sussinn from Helsinki! She had been in Tallinn for a few days with her friends and was on her way back home, waiting for the next ferry. What a surprise! It's a small world!
We left my bag at Batmannu's working place, and then Lari showed me around the wonderful medieval center of Tallinn, Reval in times of the Hanse. It felt like a german town, weird. Well, the language was sprinkled with german and is very close to finnish. Of course I didn't understand a word of it, all the same. But Lari did.
He liked the sea shore better, so we enjoyed some time at the city concert hall build in the 80s, now in ruins. The view across the sea was amazing!
Looking for new jeans since the old ones had been paited pink at the paiting party was fun, we couldn't agree on one single pair, but so what?
We then spent the evening waiting for Batmannu to finish work and join us short before midnight, by sitting in the park drinking some very expensive red wine. The shop assistant had cheated on us, and in no way could we prove we had given them 500 eek, not 100. Well, shit happens. The wine was good all the same, and the talks as well.
At 11 am the small old russian guy working in the park warned us that we should stop drinking, that was so nice! It's the law in Estonia: no alcohol in the streets between 11 pm and 7 am, not even in the open air restaurants. So people get drunk inside.
We didn't, but took the taxi to Batmannu's place where we stayed outside some more in the park, buying beer and long drinks from the nearby gambling hall. Open 24/7. So much to keeping people from drinking.
Then home at 2 am, onto chat, and whom would I meet but Patrick, still touring around Europe whilst waiting for his bike to be repaired so he can continue his travel from London to Singapore. He's in Vilnius right now, and without a host because he arrived too late. Luckily many internetcafes are open 24/7 as well, so he had a place to stay and chat to spend his time. Tomorrow he'll come to Riga, so we might hook up again. Even do some traveling together, maybe. Who knows?