Us swinging...

It all started out with a rainy sunday… not much to do except maybe walk around Tallinn and find ourselves a nice little cafe. That was until Margit called us to suggest we come with her and her children, to Lahemaa National Park. It’s not that far from where we live, but it’s not very easy to discover it without a car, so this was the perfect opportunity.

We tried to escape the rain by getting nearer to the coast, where a clear blue sky still shone. We got a little lost in the forest, but ended unexpectedly near the largest boulder in Estonia. It was as tall as a house, and when you think these granit stones were brought from finland by glaciers of the Ice Age, one can imagine how imposing the glaciers were.

We had a little picknic and then headed to a river with small waterfalls and a cute trail following the river. At one point there was an older man getting water from a metal tube hanging over the river and coming from a clift on the opposite shore. There was a source of drinkable water there, and this man got his water from there.

At the end of our hike, the weather was getting grey again, almost time to go, but we had to try the swing, with Margit’s children this time. We went a little further than on our last try, but we’re still far from going all the way around ! (actually you can’t with the group swings…)

It ended up being a pretty full and agreable day after all !