Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Talinn - the Estonians don’t like it
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Well that was interesting. More to come later but, briefly - Estonia, history of foreign control by Germany, Denmark, etc. Gains independence at end of WWI with help of British fleet, enjoys a couple of decades of freedom, then is occupied by the USSR, then Nazi Germany, then the USSR again.
Freedom attained after the singing revolution and a 600km, 2-million person human chain stretching across Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Estonia here we come
Continuing our recent tradition of a quick cheap Winter holiday on the Continent (Venice, could it ever be bettered? Cologne, whizzy Cathedral and metre-long bratwurst) we have booked Talinn for a few days.
Talinn’s the capital of new-Europe Estonia (home of Skype and flat-rate taxation). It hasn’t joined the Euro yet and its currency, the Etonian Kroon is known as the EEK (ISO 4217 code). How good is that?