Today’s weather was a little bit more what I expected from Tallinn. Up until today, the weather had always been awesome at least for awhile every day, but today when I woke up it was raining and it hasn’t stopped. In a way, it was a good thing, as I was able to get a fair amount of flash-carding and grammarizing in, but not much blog-worthy.
I did go out to breakfast and a pancake place. There’s a picture of it. Pancakes here aren’t the dessert-for-breakfast variety we’re accustomed to, but more like crepes. Thick like pancakes, but otherwise like crepes. It was great! And only like 3 euros or something, and I left stuffed.
One weird thing here is that the coffee is expensive. Everything else is really nicely priced, but you can’t get coffee for less than two euros, and that’s not for a Starbies-approved six gallon vat, but just a simple cup of coffee. It’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s up there.
I also checked out an Eastern Market/Megamall type place run by and seemingly only patronized by Russians. It was raining pretty steadily at that point, so I didn’t pause to take any photos. My favorite part was the little stand selling granite headstones, in case you need to pick one up along with your vegetables and knock-off purse.
Last note- check out the NB sign. I wasn’t familiar with this abbreviation before a couple weeks ago when I first saw one in an e-mail from one of the Estonian schools. Then it popped up in a paper I was reading, then it was used rather generously in my Estonian texts, the non-Estonian book I’m reading now uses it extensively, AND there’s NB signs everywhere. It’s like fate really wants me to make a good note of it.