The smell of mulled wine, gingerbread and roasted chestnuts is in the air at the best European Christmas Markets. Hand-painted ornaments dangle from little wooden huts, scents of sausage waft through the air and the sounds of carolers and horse carriages clacking on cobblestones fill the old town squares. Europe’s Christmas Markets are magical and […]
Tallinn Wool Market
I loved the quaintness of Tallinn’s Old Town and wandering through the fairytale like city, but a girl still likes to shop! I was immediately drawn in to the colorful wool knits in the stalls at the outdoor Tallinn Wool Market. Estonian craftswomen set up shop to sell their hand knitted products in the shadows […]
Tallinn’s Old Town
Like most visitors to Estonia, we arrived in Tallinn via the two hour ferry ride from Helsinki. It was the very last day of our trip to Finland and while I had tried to talk Tim into ferrying over to Estonia for weeks leading up to our trip, he didn’t think we had time. We […]