tallinn rocks.

so i finally got my act together and left st petersburg and russia, although i had grown to ignore the not-so-nice answers and behaviors and i was enjoying my last few days there...i got out of russia without a problemfor not having a visa registration luckily, and i am now in estonia, the top of the baltic countries for those who don't know...
estonia feels like finland, except not as cold, with much cheaper prices, prettier girls and friendlier people!!! :) yes, doesn't that sound like fun?
coming from russia everybody is so polite, open and friendly, yet peaceful and civilised i just can't believe it! ok i am making the russians sound a little too bad here...but this is really great...there's still 1/3 of the population who's russian here, although estonians do have a history of not liking them...and you do hear russian on the street, it's almost too common and it really confuses me, but everybody else speaks estonian and...surprise, surprise...english! hehe yeah everybody seems to speak english here...estonian sounds very much like finnish to me, very similar sounds...it is a ugro-finnish language after all, while lithuanian and latvian are indo-european...but i don't know what those sound like yet, so i can't tell!
it does feel very much like europe, or the EU, here...english is spoken, the country seems quite modern, it is very e-savy...very enjoyable! it is so e-savy that it's hard to find an internet cafe because there's free wi-fi at most places in the center!
oh i forgot...tallinn's old town is just wonderful, made of narrow, cobblestone streets and pretty pointy and colorful buildings...i had no idea!
the supermarket trip was also pretty awesome! they have so much yummy food, it's all fairly decent-priced and they have some interesting bread-like stuff that reminds me of either pizza dough or middle eastern bred...some are plain, some are with walnuts...and it's yummy...plus they have a wide range of smoked cheeses and cheeses with stuff (spices of some sort) on the crust...something like spiced cheese maybe, i have no idea...but it tastes really good!
what else...oh, yeah, there's also several groups of tourists, many brits on alcoholic weekends and also several italians and russians in big groups...the locals don't seem to mind (yet) and are very young, pretty and friendly! last night i ended up watching czech rep-ghana with my wonderful host T and her friends M and K, and then i joined the 3 funny romans i met in st petersburg for italy-usa...very bad game, what can i say?!