Special Report: Top 20 Up-and-Coming Destinations
Featured, Local Insight, Offbeat — By Alex Resnik on May 7, 2011 at 6:00 am3. Tallinn, Estonia
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The Wow: With twisting cobblestone lanes and medieval markets, Tallinn’s is one of the world’s best preserved medieval towns and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In addition, the city was crowned a 2011 European Capital of Culture. The honor prompted Tallinn to offer an incredibly rich cultural calendar for 2011.
Why Now? The growing popularity of Tallinn’s bars and nightclubs with British bachelor parties in particular has led some to dub Tallinn the “Las Vegas of the Baltics.” In January of 2011, visits to Tallinn were up 19 percent over the past year, with visits from the United Kingdom up a full 35 percent.
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Catch sunset between the twin harbours of Korissia and Voukari is a cafe/bar called Kews atop the hillock and is an ideal place to catch the sun setting over the bay’s inlet. Stunning!
If you do go to Greece make sure you get some Jet Lag advice! Flew from Chicago to London then on to Greece. Was dying from jet lag! Tour rep gave me some Protex H for the way back… worked a treat.
Jon –
scientifically, the only time that you really get jet lag is when you fly from West to East. When you flew back you to Chgo from London you were going the other way, so you had little or no jet lag anyway.
What do you base this on? I flew from West to East—West Coast to Asia—-and I was MIGHTLY jetlagged.
Jet lag comes from changing time zones, not the direction you fly in. When your body has to reset it’s natural clock, you suffer from fatigue and “jet lag.” And I think different people are affected differently by travel. You might not get jet lag as severely as someone else. I get jet lag every time I travel from home on the east coast to Las Vegas. It takes me about 3 days for my body to adjust to what it considers staying up later and getting up later. And then the same thing happens when I return home. My body must not be scientifically correct.
There are NO PALM FORESTS in Uruguay….Pine forests yes, but no palms. I was born and
raised in Uruguay, and the geography and climate of the tiny country do not encourage
palm forests. There might be a few scattered around plazas in towns and in the capital, but
certainly nothing that could be called a Palm Forest. The country is indeed a small, unknown,
peaceful gem, but forget about “tropical paradise”,,,,it’s more like California’s central coast, certainly
more like Santa Barbara, or Carmel, than Hawaii or Florida.
Love number 7. Albania. It is a great place for a vacation. Adventurous, great food, art and the most important crystal clear water. A must see.