It´s my third day and I´m surrounded by a different kind of wall... the one that circles the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Old Town in Tallinn. It´s a beautiful part of the city and one that caters mostly to tourists like myself.

I am staying with fellow CouchSurfing member Margit (see www.couchsurfing.com) and she has been an immensely kind and generous host. It´s cold but not as cold as residents say it´s been in past years, and definitely the lack of snow changes the landscape so that it doesn´t look as picturesque as one would believe looking at postcards.

Nonetheless, I have met many new people - mostly through Margit - and had a chance to join the large queue to buy alcohol that forms just before 11 pm, as you are unable to buy alcohol after that time anywhere in the city. :)

If you have a chance to visit Tallinn, you should definitely go to the Linnamuuseum (City Museum) which is cheap and provides a detailed account of Tallinn´s past - a history which depicts the various points at which Tallinn was in the hands of other peoples (Danes, Swedes, Russians and the Germans briefly during WWII).

Tomorrow, I leave for the university town of Tartu where I will be staying with another host, this time someone I´ve met through the Hospitality Club!