Eating BEAR in Estonia - First Impressions of Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪

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10 ай бұрын

Our first impressions of Tallinn, Estonia. A beautifully medieval city and the capital of the Baltic state of Estonia. Tallinn has incredible architecture, fascinating museums, and really unique food such as bear and elk sausage!
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@florenna Ай бұрын

Ok I just had to click "like", just because this features my favorite restaurant in the whole world, Olde Hansa :) Everyone just take a look at the images in the vid to see why!!!

@sinitiib 9 ай бұрын

Fun fact about the Olde Hansa, the whole menu is just like it was in mediaeval times. No potatoes for example because that didn't exist in mediaeval Europe. All the servers are dressed in timely clothes and the music is also mediaeval themed. If you go on certain times of the week there is even live music that is played by mediaeval dressed musicians with instrument from that time period. So you totally feel like you have traveled back in time. Also the restaurant goes I think through 2-3 floors.

@MaxandSidney 9 ай бұрын

That is so cool, what an awesome place! We were definitely impressed with their commitment to the theme!

@TRHardware 8 ай бұрын

Estonia is so so different in the spring and summer. Hope that You can come to visit it again and explore outside of Tallinn as well.

@MillaExplores 10 ай бұрын

I love Tallinn! I'm from Finland so it's a rather easy weekend trip to do (or even a day trip from Helsinki) 😊 My favorite restaurant there is Rataskaevu 16, it's so good! I'd travel there just for the food 😂

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

That is so nice to have access to Tallinn like that! We hope to take the ferry from Helsinki some day! We will definitely add Rataskaevu 16 to our list for next time, thanks for the suggestion!

@lagritsalammas 6 ай бұрын

@@MaxandSidney Oh yes, Rataskaevu 16 is amazing! They've got two buildings a minute's walk away from each other with the same menu and the same staff rotating between the two. You'll feel so welcome and so cosy there, I cannot recommend it enough.

@florenna Ай бұрын

Oh, no restaurant in the world can beat Olde Hansa! :) As a fellow Finn. No matter how many ties you've been there ;)

@na1di1a1 10 ай бұрын

Amazing video again!☺️ Tallin looks so charming and our travelling list keeps getting longer and longer with these nordic places! 😄

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

So glad you liked the video, we really appreciate you watching! Tallinn was so charming, can’t recommend it enough! It’s still a little under the radar but easily one of the most beautiful old towns in Europe!

@foolumeitea8644 6 ай бұрын

its baltic

@eksiarvamus 10 ай бұрын

Note that "Pikk jalg" is not the "Upper Pikk Street" (even though Pikk does continue into Pikk jalg), but rather it means the "Long Leg/Foot" as there is also the Lühike jalg ("Short Leg/Foot"), both taking you on top the Toompea hill. And that Russian Orthodox church you seem to be obsessed about is MASSIVELY hated by Estonians as a symbol of Russian imperialism.

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info! That is a shame, and obviously something we have no firsthand context of. It is a rather beautiful building. Tallinn is such an interesting city, we really enjoyed it!

@eksiarvamus 10 ай бұрын

@@MaxandSidney it's a shame it was ever built there as a political and cultural eyesore.

@marrau59 8 ай бұрын

It is not a historical building. It was built only in 1900. For us it is new. And we hate it. By the way you have centuries thoroughly mixed up, talking about 14 century buildings as 16-th.

@marrau59 8 ай бұрын

@@MaxandSidney it is an awful building, without taste, all this oppulence... .Much better if it would be taken down. This thought has been many times and the only reason it still stands was that our first president Päts was russian orthodox. It seems you have not seen the pictures of the park and gardens that were in its place before that monstrosity was built!

@ApstraktOG 9 ай бұрын

We have pretty strong heritage protection board. Some people can't tear at their old country houses or make big modern changes, because the house or buildings that are on some old known land have been marked as they have to be preserved as original as they are under the protection of heritage board. I don't know if that made any sense, but cheers!

@AKKK1182 8 ай бұрын

Funny how the St. Olaf's Church used to be the KGB outpost and now the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is an FSB outpost.

@laurienator 10 ай бұрын

It goes crowdier at the Town Hall Square after the dead November when the Christmas tree (we are having a fierce fight with Riga, the capital of Latvia about who got the first Christmas tree in the world in the middle of the city in 15th century btw) is erected and there will be christmas market around it. If there happens to be snow as well it is really beatiful. :)

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

Ahh, the snow must be so beautiful! That’s interesting about the Christmas tree! We did hear Latvians claim it while we were in Riga. Interesting debate! 😁

@2meetrit 10 ай бұрын

Theres no fight. Ours was first publicly erected Christmastree

@terkojakobson 9 ай бұрын

well, there can be no dispute about the public Christmas tree - Tallinn had it first. Riga copied the idea and added their spin with decorations. doesn't take it away from Tallinn as the birthplace of the tradition of public Christmas trees. and having young spruce trees brought inside the house for Christmas / Winter Solstice - this tradition is ancient and predates any written records.

@Fr0hman 7 ай бұрын

There are electric lights in Olde Hansa, they're just hidden :)

@MaxandSidney 7 ай бұрын

Wow, really?? They are hidden well! 😄

@cryzcryz2345 10 ай бұрын

Tallinn is really beautiful! I must visit him one day. What hotel did you stay in for the night? Thank you for this amazing video! Greetings from Yorkshire 🤗

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! We stayed in an AirBnB near the Linnehall. It was a very easy walk to the old city!

@reluctantlawyer517 9 ай бұрын

You guys do such a great job showing the sites and describing what we are seeing. Thanks for putting in all of the effort since I know creating these videos is time consuming.

@MaxandSidney 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words! It definitely takes a lot, but we really enjoy the process of learning and getting better! We really appreciate you watching the videos 😁

@sannanil 10 ай бұрын

Hello, nice channel😀. If you like the old style, you must visit Gotland in Sweden. Gotland is hugely different from the rest of Sweden with its ancient style, especially 1 week every year when we have the medieval week. Welcome😊

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for the suggestion! We barely had any time in Sweden, so we definitely want to go back! We will definitely look into Gotland, it sounds fascinating!

@sanderkalso3593 8 ай бұрын

At 21-st of june there is a summer solstice where the sun does'nt really set and there is light throughout the night

@KrK-EST 10 ай бұрын

🇪🇪Estonian and I liderally have some deer meat sausage and some board meat at my fridge atm. (no you do not get these things from store, only can get some from hunters or local markets)

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

Wow, so interesting! It's not something that we have much exposure to, but it seems like it has excellent flavor!

@KrK-EST 10 ай бұрын

@@MaxandSidney Yep the forest animal meat here is quite ricth and as we have prepared them for hundreds of years in all kinds of ways we have found eays to make them naturally(local ingridients and sauses and sutch) as tasty as they can. Often these resepies and skills are handed down so not that mutch on paper. Also all traditional food done (exept fast food and sutch) is done with passion. Liderally some random vilage caffeterias can do higest taste (world)level foods with usual costs like 5 to 8 eur.

@healingnarcissism_ 8 ай бұрын

IS IT ALL SUSTAINABLY HUNTED? AND THE ANIMALS RESPECTED, NOT POACHED?@@KrK-EST

@tormfury7376 2 ай бұрын

@@healingnarcissism_ Poaching is very rare and harshly punished, so it practically doesn't happen these days (things were a little more wild between exiting USSR and 2000-ish). And while Estonia might be like 55% forest and low on population in terms of people, it's still divided up in a way that makes poaching pretty much impossible without getting caught. Either way, hunting is tightly regulated and animal populations are being kept a good track of. As far as sustainability goes, our game animal populations are so healthy that hunting is not just sustainable, but actually necessary. For example, while eurasian lynx is either extinct or under protection in most of Europe, it's got a green light for hunting in Estonia, because their population is constantly at above 2 times the size of what would be optimal for the animals themselves given the territory requirements for their own particular hunting habits. They just manage to sustain their population because Estonia also has more than healthy populations of their prey. And brown bears... Well, they're common everywhere in Estonia, except for the islands. Their population has been steadily growing with every year, having now reached double of what it was by the tail end of the USSR occupation, which is pretty neat. Although extremely hot summers like we've been having as of late can turn them into pests. While brown bears are opportunistic omnivores, they prefer to gorge themselves on wild berries and fruit. Extended heatwaves and drought period do a number on that particular food selection and in turn, desperate bears turn to fruit orchards and livestock. Either way, their number continues to increase, so there certainly doesn't seem to be overhunting. @KrK-EST You can actually get bear and game meat from stores affiliated with Lihapood during hunting season, and you can get it in canned form out of season. Although I do prefer the stuff I can get from local hunters myself.

@petebrandon8164 8 ай бұрын

I loved your video! I just came back from a few days in Tallinn which was wonderful. I also did a couple of day bus trips out of town to the forests and seaside, which is worth doing if you have time 😁🥰

@smartrockcoolguy 8 ай бұрын

great couple and great narration of videos....god speed to you guys love from India

@MaxandSidney 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed it!

@hannakerr 10 ай бұрын

How cold was it when you visited? Thanks for sharing - another country I knew nothing about!

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

It wasn’t too bad honestly, high 20’s low 30’s fahrenheit. It was just quite a noticeable shift from the pleasant fall weather we had in Poland. And very different from Greece and Albania just a month and a half earlier 😅

@maxwellsugerman 10 ай бұрын

Great video. Do you ever get burned out? We did three weeks in Europe and used the tips in your videos, so thank you so much for that. But, we're exhausted!

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

So glad our videos were able to add to your trip! That is so exciting for us to hear! Yes, we definitely got burned out after 11 months 🫠 we also had to build in rest and editing days along the way. But yes, it adds up 😂 we love every minute of it though! Thanks for supporting our channel, it truly means the world to us 😊

@maxwellsugerman 10 ай бұрын

@@MaxandSidney thank you! You guys are great, keep it up

@johnbooth5297 10 ай бұрын

Regardless if you make it or not these are once in a lifetime trips I can only hope to make as a veteran these videos are very calming keep it up guys you give me the hope to go on every day for all the things I haven't seen

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying this 😊 it means the world that people connect to our travels and experiences through these videos! We really appreciate you watching 😁

@callumkent7155 10 ай бұрын

That’s looks good. I will have to look at visiting here. Gives me Nuremberg vibes what with the medieval walls surrounding it and big churches

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

It was easily one of the most medieval feeling cities we have visited! Sends tingles down your spine! We have not been to Nuremberg yet, but would love to see it!

@callumkent7155 10 ай бұрын

@@MaxandSidney Oh great. And I highly recommend Nuremberg. Having been most of Europe. I can honestly say it’s one of the best. Stunning city and so much history. The whole city is surrounded by castle and walls.

@andreacoyte7856 7 ай бұрын

Did you say it was shot in November? Interested as im going next week up until 8 November. You didnt look warm. No beanie gloves.

@papadocsamedi2544 10 ай бұрын

I guess me,as an estonian, although now living abroad, but who has been exposed to it all my life, can't appreciate the uniqueness of the Tallinn's Old Town like people who see it the first time...

@MaxandSidney 10 ай бұрын

We were amazed by it!

@N_0968 8 ай бұрын

I’m an Estonian living abroad and to me Tallinn is so unique. There’s no old town like it anywhere else I’ve been.