I really wanted to write this article for a long time already to show you what we are doing several times a week. We do guided tours for cruise ships, and take them around the old town.

The cruises have a really big impact on Tallinn’s city. Usually our tourist groups are from 20 to 40 people maximum but as the demand is enourmous (2600 tourists in one boat like the Costa Mediterranea which you can see in the video), most of the time, we take bigger groups and sometimes our company is even obliged to refuse some people. We regularly have some groups of 46 tourists, and it is not easy to guide them for four hours or more.

Amélie does visits in french, for me it is more in spanish or in english. But spanish groups have become my speciality for a lot of estonian guides speak english better than spanish.

We all have the same route and sometimes it creates traffic jams in the little medieval town of Tallinn. One hour later, the old town is completely deserted, but visitors usually ask if “It is always overcrowded like this?”

In reality, Estonia is not really a country of mass tourism, as one could imagine watching the video. On the contrary, the country is full of natural landscapes, forests, rural areas and small peacefull villages, but unfortunately most of the tourists have no time to see this aspect of the country. All of the estonian tourism is for the moment concentrated in its capital, Tallinn and especially in the old town.