Ken is ready to travel to Tallinn, the
capital city of Estonia. He’s got sensible shoes for the terrible
weather and a suitcase full of food in case of an emergency. Kaarna
will take care of Sulo during the boys’ trip. Hector says:
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Don’t spoil him.
- I won’t if you won’t spoil Ken.
Kaarna has to take care of Ken’s duties. She spreads sand on the paths to keep everyone safe on the slippery, icy yard.
The harbour in Jätkäsaari must be the ugliest part of Helsinki. This is where the ships to Tallinn leave. The weather is super windy and Hector says that the ferry might be rocking a lot on the waves.
Ken and Hector soon realize that it’s impossible to spend time outside on the deck because of the wind.
Hector says:
- I’ll get a coffee and a cake in the cafeteria.
What do you want?
- Nothing thanks… burb… I can’t eat
anything now. The waves make me nauseous.
- I just have to stay by a window and stare at the horizon, Ken thinks. Luckily the trip only takes less than three hours.
The boys have booked a room in a spa hotel. They go immediately to the pool and saunas.
The salt sauna is Ken’s favorite.
- I think they gave me kids’s bathrobe!
The old town of Tallinn is a beautiful area with well preserved medieval buildings. The boys walk around and enjoy everything they see.
The weather feels like spring: there’s no snow and the sky is partly blue!
The town is very quiet and there are only a few tourists. Most of the galleries and shops are closed, but many lovely cafeterias are open.
Pastries and sweets made of marzipan are sold everywhere. What a heaven!
Meanwhile at home it has been snowing a
lot. Sulo enjoys it, but Kaarna is super tired, sweaty and angry.
-
Why didn’t I go with Ken and leave all this shit to Filia and
Elisabet?! I’m such a dildo!
Ken wants to have lunch in a small restaurant where they serve only medieval meals. The boys drink elk meat soup (there were no spoons in the medieval times) and eat cabbage pies. Delicious!
After walking around the old town and museums for hours and hours, Ken’s feet are dead. Hector suggests the pool with ice cold water, but for Ken it feels like a frozen hell.
He prefers the saunas and a hot shower.
Before bedtime the boys eat the gigantic marzipan pig. Well, actually Ken eats the pig and gives Hector a piece.
Kaarna has thought that it would be
nice to own a dog, but walking with Sulo makes her feel the opposite.
The dog stops all the time to sniff and pee. It’s annoying.
Hector can speak a
little Estonian. It’s by far the funniest language in the world and
hearing and reading it makes Ken laugh. It sounds like our own Finnish
language spoken in a humorous and silly way.
Ken can only say ”aitäh” which means ”thank you” but sounds like a Finnish person saying ”Say what?!” in an unsophisticated way.
The boys visit the Proto Avastustehas and Ken is thrilled about the virtual reality games. Luckily it’s a school day and there’s only a couple of kids.
Ken gets so carried away
with the hot air balloon that he doesn’t even hear Hector’s voice:
- Ken, you are screaming extremely loud!
It’s the last moments in Tallinn and Ken remembers that he hasn’t searched for any geocaches. At least one cache has to be logged in every visited country!
This time the ferry is
bigger. Hector says he might want to go eat at the buffet restaurant,
but Ken takes a big pie out of his backpack.
- I stole this from the hotel breakfast.
- Ken!!!!
-
I have to eat something today. Every restaurant and museum was so
expensive, that I ran out of my holiday budget. Tallinn is no longer
affordable.
Ken realizes that he hasn’t bought anything to Kaarna, who has worked hard at home. So Ken tries to find something on the ship store. Hector buys tons of Estonian chocolate.
The holiday in Tallinn was excellent, but the boys are happy to be at home too. Kaarna gets her gifts. Ken says:
- Thank you for taking care of everything! Did you have time to relax at all?
- Oh yes. Sulo and I have been binge-watching Brassic. It’s awesome.