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After almost involving a run with the bulls in Pamplona and briefly looking like being held in Marbella, my brother-in-law's stag weekend has finally been decided - 3 days in Tallinn, Estonia in July.

Has anyone been there? Is there anything good to do/worth seeing? Any good bars/clubs? It'll involve being drunXOR for most of the time anyway, I guess.

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THREE DAYS!!! Christ Dr C! I was there for one day and I ran out of things to do soon enough, mind you I didn't go to any bars. Basically there are to Tallinns (this info c.1995), the old town which is tiny, pretty, well-preserved, not much to do, and the rest of the city which is communist-architecture social-housing hell, I can't imagine there's much to do there either.

― Tom, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Suffice to say I didn't decide on Tallinn. Various people involved in the decision had a great time on a rugby tour to Prague a couple of yrs back and somehow I think they're expecting that Tallinn will be similar. It is likely to involve playing rugby v. some locals as well as k-drinXOR. But yes three days, even allowing for recovering from hangovers and bailing various people out of the local clink, strikes me as excessive. That's why I asked.

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was only there for two days and I had killer flu at the time as well. But even so I still thought it was great. You can drive for about 10 minutes out of town and it's all pine forest, the trees stretch right down to the beach. The old town is gorgeous. And the restaurants I went to were really good, nice sea food. It's very inexpensive too (200 duty free cigarettes for around £4, lunch for two about £5).

― Anna, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and the club we went to had a policy of staying open until people got bored. I think it carried on until 5-ish. This was on a Wednesday. I collapsed with killer flu much earlier. Estonia seems to have a very relaxed attitude to licsensing laws.

― Anna, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is more promising - thanks Anna!

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently there are quite a few Scots in Tallin, who settled there after playing their ill fated game against Estonia a few years back.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on folks - tell me more about Tallinn. I meant to ask you last night, Anna, what were the clubs like?

― Dr. C, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why are you not going to Tomatina?

― chris, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who the fuck goes to estonia for fun ?

― anthony, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Albanians.

― Sam, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a friend of mine was in Talinn and said it was GRATE. It's kind of like Prague was before Prague got trendy. And it has the world's best dumplings.

― DV, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i heard tallinn is meant to be well nice, and full of cool shit. mind you, this was from some peopel that had gone there after being in russia for 9 months, a situation where any place vaguely european looks like fucking heaven....

― ambrose, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tallin is lovely. And I was only there last October.

The club I went to was fairly generic house Dr C, but everybody there REALLY wanted to be there. I was there for work and pretty ill, so I didn't get chance to explore the rest of teh nightlife.

― Anna, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some of the action man types among the stag crew want to go CANOEING in some kind of Tallinn national park now. I just want to drink cheap beer.

― Dr. C, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stag weekends + boats do not mix. I speak from experience, having spent a day on a boat in the solent after a previous nights over- indulgence. I might have coped if it weren't for the explosive nature of the curry that some of my companions spent most of the day regretting in the toilet between the two cabins. A very small capacity toilet it was as well.

― RickyT, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Caneoing? This is madness. How can they be so cruel to the rest of the party? (Actually I have been cannoeing once years ago and it was quite fun, but there's a time and a place and I resent enforced gung-ho-ishnes)

― Anna, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr C are you going on an outward bound course or a stag do, if the former then fine, if the latter then activities such as canoeing are simply unnacceptable, unless it's on a lake of beer and you get to do eskimo rolls or summat.

― chris, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Eurovision Song Contest is being held there in late May, so I imagine the whole place will have been trashed by the time you get there, Dr. C.

― PM, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris, you're OTM. And Anna. Canoeing and outward bound nonsense is out-of-place on a stag wkend. The problem is that I'm their as brother-in-law (my otha half's bruv is getting hitched) and they are not exactly my best mates, although decent sorts all. They're mainly oil company offshore types and fancy themselves as action men (skydiving, snowboarding in spare time). If it woz my mates there would be no question of this malarkey and we'd spend all weekend drinking and clubbing. Well drinking anyway. I reckon that's what it'll turn about to be in the end, so don't worry for my safety y'all! I think they're just trying to impress each other before the event by contemplating ridiculous heroics.

― Dr. C, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Prague was the best stag night ever . www.praguepissup.com

― Mark, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

so i should hopefully be in tallinn for part of this weekend (prob saturday at the minute)

recommendations/experiences etc?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, that post above gareth's is depressing. I went to Tallinn a few years ago but I fear my experiences weren't that worth relating and are horribly out of date.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I recommend Olde Hansa for a medieval banquet. The ginger turnip is exquisite. Also they have bear on the menu. That's right. Bear.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I related the weekend on another thread. Don't ever try drinking for two days solidly, hardly sleeping and then playing rugby against the estonian army XV. It's really not a good idea.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Olde Hansa seconded, their honeyed beer is worth tasting! Also, Troika is good, but a bit touristy Russian restaurant. Elevant: sizable portions of inexpensive Indian food in a nice, townhouse-y atmosphere. Contravento for tasty Italian food. All of them probably safe-but-lame choices, but that can be a good thing, too...

― Janne (Janne), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

How come t\'\'t hasn't posted to this thread?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

*doesn't know (or care) that much about tallinn, believe it or not*

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair enough!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Olde Hansa thirded! They do this amazingly good honey beer in earthenwear pots. And the waitresses are all dressed in medieval costume - serving wenches phwrrr. Olde Hansa have various stalls around the city where they seve bags of sugared nuts too. I would've liked to had time to try Peppersack over the road to compare and contrast - it looked kinda similar.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Tallinn.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Tallin's great. Where else would you find a Depeche Mode bar?

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard about this. I never went there. The only music related bar I went to was called Karu, and was music related insofar as it had a girl singing karaoke style. She did "Killing Me softly" and I flled in the "one time" and "two time"s to general bewilderment.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 20 August 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Karu might mean bear. There were certainly lots of pictures of bears about the place.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard that Tallinn is the ancient capital of "everything," although I can't remember the context which would give that assertion any sense.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 August 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

certainly the poor Estonians have been ruled over by everyone and anyone - Danes (the name of the city means "Danish town"), Swedes, Russinas, Prussians ect ect. That may explain Tracer's comment.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

IMO Peppersack suXors compared to Olde Hansa – it feels really lightweight in comparison. Less exciting menu, and more watered-down feel overall (e.g. regular paper napkins vs big proper linen ones; Era-type music vs proper crumhorn & shawm stuff etc).

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

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