Is TALLINN, ESTONIA the most BEAUTIFUL Baltic Capital? (Travel Vlog Guide)

[@martinkoitmae6655]

It is indeed the most beautiful baltic capital!

[@KristyandSteve]

We agree Martin! ☺️ (Riga is veryyyy close though 🤏)

[@sharonmcguire9890]

Beautiful Tallinn

[@KristyandSteve]

Sure is! 🇪🇪❤️

[@king-of-a-thing]

Amazing city, love from Croatia!❤❤❤

[@KristyandSteve]

Hello in Croatia! 👋 Thank you for watching ❤️

[@grahamjohnson7383]

Great video guys,so funny😂

[@KristyandSteve]

Thanks Gj! 🥰

[@GPosner8]

I’m researching for my trip to the Baltics and your channel popped up. I’m two minutes in and I’m a new subscriber 👍🏻✌🏻🤙🏻

[@KristyandSteve]

Thank you! 🥰 Let us know if you have any questions, happy to help!

[@andreacoyte7856]

Good to see some fellow Australians in Tallinn. Especially in winter. One of my dream is to go in winter as have done summer twice a few years ago and autumn last year ❤

[@KristyandSteve]

Thank you, we absolutely LOVE Tallinn! We'd love to experience it outside of winter for a different perspective. Its such a beautiful city ❤️ Thank you for watching!

[@PaulbunionBunion-vb5xs]

Thanks

[@KristyandSteve]

Oh Thank you SO much, Paul! 🥹 Very kind of you, we really appreciate it 🙏❤️

[@CarlCOts]

Cold baltic herring,pickels and sour cream on a hot sommer day with vodka shots uuu bueno!

[@KristyandSteve]

Steve would love that! ☺️

[@CarlCOts]

Its like a traditional cold food in Estonia at sommer pickeled or just salted herring bits coverd with onion,sour cream, chopped cooked eggs and greens like dill and spring onion! It is epic🇪🇪

[@adz_b]

It’s a Yes on the headband & a def No on the fish for me 😂. Great & informative video (as always). Steve took to skating like a duck to er…ice 👏🏻👏🏻. Loved the sneak previews too 🥰

[@KristyandSteve]

Ohhh adz that fish really was something else! Steve did so well ice-skating, I was so impressed (and very surprised to be honest 🤣). Feels like a lifetime ago we were in those below zero temperatures! Currently editing these videos in the middle of a blistering Aussie summer is very surreal looking back - definitely miss the snow! ❄️

[@adz_b]

@@KristyandSteve 😃☀️🕶️🇦🇺

[@briancollins9977]

thanks for the reply on your innsbruck vlog. ...... you two are avid travellers like i was for 6 yrs up to jan 2020, once you start travelling it,s hard to stop.. it,s like a passion ,,,,,, enjoying your vlogs alot , many of those places i went within 5 yrs from 2014-2020 .. many thanks again...

[@KristyandSteve]

Thanks very much, Brian! Wow 6 years is a good amount of time to have travelled. Did you settle somewhere you stumbled upon on your adventures and fell in love with, or return home? You'd have some great stories! Appreciate you watching & taking the time to comment on our videos, glad you like them! ☺️

[@briancollins9977]

my travels around western european countries and iceland/ scandinavia were regular mini breaks from 2 nights to 7 nights depending on the travel distance from heathrow uk . the last year 2019 was 4 long haul destinations trips for between 7-12 nights on average so singapore hong kong seoul and KL..malaysia. hopefully soon i,m going to get my BUTT back in travel mode again soon .. Anyway try seoul when you guys have the time, . you,ll love it , if you ,ve not been already ..Best wishes Happy Travels/...@@KristyandSteve

[@KristyandSteve]

Ah you're situated in the perfect spot in our opinion (UK). Lots of incredible, diverse, interesting places at your doorstep. We visited Seoul around this time last year, great city isn't it! Hope you get to travel again soon. You were right in one of your previous comments, if you have the passion for travelling it never leaves you and always keeps you wanting more!

[@TravelInspiration4u]

Next time you should come to Estonia in summer and make sure to let me know in advance - I would love to show you around! 😉

[@KristyandSteve]

Thats very kind of you, thank you 🙏 We'd love to revisit Estonia again one day

[@Adrianxnn]

YES it is! I couldnt try that gross pickled herring either, just awful. Aaand you should definitely include more bloopers in the future, its fun to see them 😝

[@KristyandSteve]

Noted! We will try add them at the end of our videos. Honestly, we could make full length vlogs just with bloopers they occur so often 🤣 Thanks for watching, Adrian!

[@JohnAndTeriJustGo]

CONGRATS ON 5000 SUBS!!! You guys rock.. Another great fun vlog 🌟 ❤️🤍💙

[@KristyandSteve]

Oh thanks so much guys! ❤️Hope you two are having a blast over in NZ (loved your Cairns vlog to by the way, made us want to revisit and check out Clifton Beach , those sunset shots are awesome!!!) Safe travels you two 🥰

[@CarlCOts]

Telliskivi is supper cool in the summer time winter its a bit slow unfortunetly.

[@KristyandSteve]

It was such a cool area! We were saying it would be really fun and vibrant outside of the winter months. Really great spot 👌🏽

[@myhomeanddreamgarden]

Fish from jar....I love it 🤣 you have to be born in Europe. Greetings from Australia 🌞

[@KristyandSteve]

Haha yes it certainly was an experience thats for sure! 😂 Thanks for watching ☺️

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

Love Tallinn. Love Helsinki. I miss Linda Line.

[@KristyandSteve]

Two brilliant cities aren't they! 🥰

[@HelenGolovina-y9h]

Yes, the herring type of fish is something you have to grow up with and be used to otherwise it probably tastes very strange and maybe even disgusting. I am not crazy about herring either, but there are other types of basically raw fish. Like sprots (look up the English word, I am too lazy right now)-amazing, but approach it with an open mind. And KILU. Which is heavily salted raw little fish. Very Estonian. But again has to be approached with an open mind, it is very different that most people are probably used to. We eat it with black!! bread (and vodka) and it is a compulsory dish on our independence day on Feb 24. Definitely with the vodka.

[@KristyandSteve]

Steve loved the herring, Im with you (not a fan of it!). Appreciate the information and you watching our video

[@patrickstarnes2355]

Looks wonderful and freezing cold. I think that herring is bloody disgusting fish 😱🙊

[@KristyandSteve]

I totally agree with you on that Patrick 🤣 Thanks for watching!

[@theharshtruthoutthere]

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[@HelenGolovina-y9h]

As for the cold, Jesus, people, do get dressed in winter before complaining about the cold. Close the zippers and buttons, put your scarf around the neck instead of having it fly around somewhere, but the hats/caps on the entire head etc. Do not dress to be sexy, dress to be warm. And -7C is not cold. It is a very warm winter temperature. Try -20C, then we will talk again. And then go to Russia, some parts of it, and try -75C. And then try the -7C again. It is not cold. Of course, Australians would have a very different perception of temperature. As for the title of your video... there only are three Baltic countries. The comparison is only between three capitals,not a very wide choice. Definitely Tallinn is the best. Riga Old Town is all over the place. It is not defined the way Tallinn is with the City Wall. Also, we have very strict laws about keeping the atmosphere. No modern building in Old Town.. Riga Old Town is a hectic micture of everything. And while it has some amazing buildings, it loses the atmpsphere because it all gets lost in the mixture of different things. Tallinn is more compact, more medieval. And more to the point. Vilnius is very different. I would not start to compare them because they are different. The Baltics is not one country or one culture, it is three very different cultures and I do not understand why the world tends to lumps us into one pile.By the way, Estonians are not a Baltic nation and our language is not a Baltic language. Latvian and Lithuanian are. Estonian is a Uralic language, the Finno Ugric branch of it. Most of those languages have died by today. The only ones that function as official literary languages with administration and higher education and science in that language, are Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian. I am not sure Hungarian belongs to the same branch, but we are related. We are in no way related to Slavic languages. Latvian and Lithuanian are. Baltic and Slavic languages are both Indo European just as Romance and Germanic languages. So Estonian is a rare language and is quite complicated to learn because there have been so few native speakers throughout history that there has not been much chance to simplify the language. Languages with huge numbers of speakers become easier in time. They lose case endings and complex grammatical structures because over time people invent easier means to express themselves to each other. This is especially the case with international languages because one has to express oneself to people for who it is not mother tongue, so to be clear, native speakers have simplified grammatical structures over time. That is why small languages tend to be more complicated as we have not had much need to clarify ourselves to anyone in our language. estonians see themselves as very different from Latvians and Lithuanians. And there is no such thing as Baltic identity. We don't know any Latvian and Lithuanian authors, musicians, artists etc. And vice versa. The Lithuanians probably have more common identity with the Polish culture, Estonians and Finns are closely related. Latvians... I don"t even know. Latvia is so russified that it is quite tragic. Notbecause there is something wrong with Russians as such. But the Latvian identity and culture just gets forgotten in the process. estonians have no such danger because we keep ourselves very distant from everything Russian, both instinctively and consciously. Too much historical baggage there

[@AndyKos]

Tallin is a nice looking city, especially the old part. By the way, it was built by the Danes, Germans and Russians. Not by Estonians. Just for your knowledge.

[@KristyandSteve]

Thank you ☺️ We are aware of the German/Russian history but not the Danish. Very interesting city indeed!

[@HelenGolovina-y9h]

Actually it WAS mainly Estonians who actually BUILT in. In terms of doing the work. The builders and stonemasons were mainly Estonians. And also, there was a settlement here before, centuries, may be even millenniums earlier. Definitely, millenniums. Of course, it was different from the medieval city, it was settlements of fishermen and such. There is an Estonian play, or rather a long monologue going deep into the imagined thoughts of the first Danes who came here about what it must have felt like when none of the iconic building of today did not exist yet. And it was performed in a hall on Toompea, the hall where the castle is, overlooking the towers of the churches that the monologue is talking about that were not there yet. So you listen to the monologue and look at the very same towers that the monologue is talking about not existing yet. I remember watching that play, it was amazing. It made me think about the place very differently, having lived here all my life and taking it for granted that all the building and towers have been here forever. Well, most of them were bombed down on March 1943, so they are actually restorations of the medieval buildings.

[@KristyandSteve]

Thank you so much for this information, very much appreciated 🙏

[@Pepper98776]

lmao, russians didnt do anything except for commie blocks

[@HelenGolovina-y9h]

Why are all these travel videos so food-oriented? Food is the last thing on my mind when i travel

[@KristyandSteve]

Because we love food and embracing different cultures...

[@HelenGolovina-y9h]

Kvas is a Russian word. The Estonian word would be KALI for the same thing. I am too lazy to look up the English word but it is basically something between a non alcoholic beer and a bread liquid. A pointless drink in my opinion.

[@KristyandSteve]

Thank you for the information! We absolutely loved this beverage, so tasty 🤤

[@MattRodriguez-h7j]

Its not really great. Its ok but not really great

[@KristyandSteve]

Coming from Melbourne, Australia, we think Tallinn is pretty great! 🥰

[@MattRodriguez-h7j]

Prague is great. Budapest is great. Tallinn is ok. The former ones have a better baltic feeling and much more than tallinn

[@KristyandSteve]

Budapest and Prague are brilliant, aren't they? To be honest though , most European cities are extremely impressive...the architecture, history, food, people, landscapes are all so unique and different in their own way. Shame its so far from home for us! Thanks for watching our video ☺️