Here, in the middle of the town we had reached our objective because since 2001, from December through to the end of the first week in January, Tallinn hosts a traditional Christmas market.
This is appropriate because (although this is disputed, especially in Northern Germany) the picturesque Town Hall Square is claimed to be the site of the world’s first Christmas tree, which formed part of a ritual begun in 1441, when unmarried merchants sang and danced with the town’s girls around a tree, which, when they had had enough fun and drink they then burned down. This would be a bit like any town in England on New Year’s Eve if the tree wasn’t taken down in advance during the afternoon as a sensible anti-vandalism precaution.
Have Bag, Will Travel 
Andrew I am currently traveling and for some reason your photo is not downloading on my phone. Blast this technology! 🙂 I did not know how the tradition of the Christmas tree began. You do have such a vast amount of information in your blog my friend.
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Thanks Sue. When I started the blog I wanted each post to have a combination of personal travel story, a bit of humour if possible and a nugget of information. I am sticking with this format for now.
Where are you travelling? (interesting that we like a double ll in our travels and you don’t!)
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I am on the Canadian prairies visiting my Mom. Basically I am in the middle of nowhere. 🙂
Sorry what does a double II mean?
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travelling instead of traveling!
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Oh of course! 🙂
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Microsoft Word (UK edition) and WordPress (UK) marks traveling as an incorrect spelling.
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Interesting story, Andrew. 🙂
I have a friend in Tallin and immediately had to send her an e-mail to say hello after reading your post.
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That is nice! I should work for the Post Office!
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😀 😀
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Hello Andrew, this story is from your earlier series…is it just my imagination, or did you do more group tours back then? If you do less group tours now, is there a reason why you’ve navigated away from them?
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I suppose you might call it group travel but this was with a bunch of friends and I was doing the organising! We still do it but the number of people taking part seems to be going down. Maybe I’m not such a great organiser!
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Good photo.
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Thank You.
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