Tallinn, Estonia: This city on the gulf of Finland has become a major cruise ship stop. Also in port today were the following: the Aida Mer, the Costa Magica, another Holland America ship, and two more I couldn’t identify.
There were also several large ferries which could pass for cruise ships if you didn’t see the massive ramp/door on their sterns. The ferries likely run to Helsinki, St. Petersburg, and Stockholm, and perhaps to Riga.
Mega-ferries are a big deal in the Baltic, the Adriatic, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean. I suppose Europe supports 50 or more of them. They also run between Britain and Ireland, and across the Channel to France.
We’ve visited Tallinn before, a couple of times, so we didn’t bother going ashore. Now we’re sailing east to St. Petersburg where we’ll arrive tomorrow early and remain for two days, leaving late afternoon the day after tomorrow.
