I have long dreamt of visiting the European city of Tallinn, and finally, the airline gods blessed me with a great sale on perfect dates to fly there and see it right before Christmas. Tallinn, Estonia in the winter for Christmas is even more magical than I had imagined.
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Read my full disclosure HERE. Tallinn is the capital and largest city of the Baltic country of Estonia. The city is located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and Baltic Sea.
Tallinn is only about 50 miles south of Helsinki, Finland and has a population around , Most recently and notably by the Soviet Union, and before that, Russia, aside from two small stints of being occupied by Germany during World War 1 and 2. Estonia has had two major independences to celebrate. First in and second in They speak Estonian, which is a Finnic language related to Finnish , but not related to Russian or Latvian. A smaller portion of people speak regional languages like Voro and Seto.
The most spoken minority language is Russian because it was the official language of the region during Soviet occupation from We found English to be readily spoken and easily communicated with almost everyone, with a few exceptions.
