On Wednesday, December 20th, I was up early and down at the hotel breakfast when it opened at 7:00. I needed to be at the West Terminal by 8:15 because I had a 9:00 ferry to Tallinn. After my previous experience with Helsinki taxi drivers, I didn't want to depend on a taxi to get me down there so I walked a few blocks to catch the tram and took the tram all the way to end of it's line which is right outside the terminal. I arrived in Tallinn at 11:15 and once I had disembarked from the ferry, I walked about 15 minutes into the old town. The night before, I had scanned the Tallinn pages of my Rick Steves' book into my phone so I didn't have to carry the book around, and that was very helpful. I'm definitely going to start doing that more. His Tallinn walk starts with the Lower Town and Fat Margaret Tower. This guarded the entry gate of the town in medieval times The street that you enter on is called Pikk Street (literally "Long Street"). This is loo
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