{"id":101,"date":"2013-07-05T08:32:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T08:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2013-07-05T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T08:32:38","slug":"tallinn-estonia-bryon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn, Estonia (Bryon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Star’s next stop is Tallinn<\/a>, Estonia. Before embarking on this journey, I didn’t do much research on Estonia and I didn’t know what to expect. Given its proximity to Russia and its former status as a soviet republic, I assumed that there would be a lot of concrete communist-era buildings and cheap prices. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the entire Old Town of Tallinn is a UNESCO world heritage site. Complete with cobblestone roads, city walls, and the among the lowest prices in the Baltic eurozone, Tallinn was a pleasure to visit.<\/p>\n

We ate lunch at a medieval themed restaurant called Old Hansa. In a manner similar to a Rennaissance Faire, the waiters dressed up as medieval servants and served some approximation of medieval foods. I had a soup of wild boar and other meats. Valerie had the wild boar plate in gravy with pickles and saurkraut and a “cake” of cheese. We washed it down with a pint of honey beer (similar to mead, but not as good). The overpriced, but tasty meal came with a small complentary glass of schnapps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Star’s next stop is Tallinn, Estonia. Before embarking on this journey, I didn’t do much research on Estonia and I didn’t know what to expect. Given its proximity to Russia and its former status as a soviet republic, I assumed that there would be a lot of concrete communist-era buildings and cheap prices. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valeriechang.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}