Making a song and dance of dinner
Restaurant Tchaikovsky at Hotel Telegraaf, Tallinn

Not all of Old Town's culinary offerings are medieval - on my last night in Tallinn, I enjoyed a sumptuous meal inspired by Tsarist Russia in a luxurious restaurant laden with contemporary accolades.


October 08, 2015



Themed restaurants in tourist destinations tend to run the gauntlet of being careless and cheesy. Thankfully Olde Hansa and III Dragons gracefully manage the fine balance between wildly enjoyable and being true to medieval Old Town!

October 06, 2015

Medieval 5-star luxury: Hotel Schlössle, Tallinn, Estonia


Hotel Schlössle: 5-star luxury in medieval Old Town Tallinn

'Five-star luxury' and 'medieval' weren't two descriptions I'd expect to find in the same sentence let alone the same destination, that is until I experienced a truly gorgeous stay at Hotel Schlössle in the heart of Old Town, Tallinn.

I was gunning for a laid-back pace of holiday in Tallinn: a world apart from my hectic touch-and-go schedule in Russia. Here in the fortified medieval city of Tallinn - once one of the most famous trading ports in the eastern world - I was eager to walk down the cobblestoned path of Estonia’s history, whose impeccable preservation and authentic Hanseatic architecture added Old Town to the ranks of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites and earned it the title of “the medieval pearl of Europe”. 

October 02, 2015

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