I´ve found some green grass!
Because the winters are so severe, regularly 20 degrees below, it takes the grass longer to recover after winter. The grass everywhere is still dead and yellow.
Apart from that growing in a 6” bowl on the dining room table here at the Old House hostel.. It´s verdant and 4” high. Apparently it is an Estonian Easter thing.
Went to a beautiful big Russian orthodox church yesterday. I love the domes and the bright colours. Inside was hazy with incense, the alter screen a bright mass of gold. The priests were giving absolution to queues of worshippers and there was a deep, gentle, solemn chanting in the background. Magical.
Until I looked a few yards away to my right. There was an open coffin with a deceased old lady lying shrouded in white lace.
Apparently both funerals and weddings are conducted quite openly in these churches.
Today caught the bus to Pirita. Pah! Public transport conquered easily. When I eventually did find the underground bus station...
Pirita is 6k along the coast and a beach resort. For me it rivalled anything I have ever seen before. Really!
On a cool sunny, April day, walking along a clean, dry sandy beach. To see the old town of Tallinn in the distance across the bay in the Gulf of Finland.
And there were no waves.
And the sea was still frozen. Amazing.
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