Monday, April 11, 2011

Pärnu

Pärnu is unsurprisingly on the Pärnu Bay. The cold wind blows in from the frozen sea upon the beach. Only a few people are around and everybody is thinking about getting somewhere else. The view is quite nice, but the chill is just to much. The city itself is mostly built with wooden houses. Some of them two stories high. Even some churches are wooden. They also have a modern mall. Restaurants are running in low gear since the high season is still to come. Our hotel had the atmosphere of a hospital.
The cold weather reflects in the characters that get bread here. Everybody is rather reserved and take a close look a foreigners. Even the receptionist looked a little surprised. Old soviet style sanatoriums line the beach and a newly built modern spa resort at the end of the beach. Next day we headed inland in the hope to avoid the cold Bries.

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