Rick Steves’ Europe: Helsinki and Tallinn: Pearls of the Baltic

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Rick Steves’ Europe: Helsinki and Tallinn: Pearls of the Baltic

Helsinki and Tallinn are two great capitals in Northern Europe. Just 50 miles and a two-hour ferry ride apart, these two cities – facing each other across the Baltic Sea from their respective countries of Finland and Estonia – are not only neighbors, but soul sisters. Finns and Estonians share a similar history – first Swedish domination, then Russian, then independence after World War I. But while Finland held on to its freedom through the Cold…