Journey: Pärnu – Sooma National Park – Viljandi – Tartu
Pärnu is a lovely town full of green spaces, we walked through Villi Park and Rannapark while enroute to the beach only to find out dogs weren’t allowed, but nevermind Mabel and Jasper still found some sand to roll in on the promenade. We then walked back through Vanapark and the main town. There are lots of hotels and spa facilities with mud baths, so a lovely place to go for a break away.
Still the towns can’t keep us for long and we were soon on our way to Sooma National Park to walk the beaver trail. It was only a short loop but so exciting to see the evidence of their work, chomped trees and dam.
We then drove on to the lovely town of Viljandi which has castle ruins, a large lake, picturesque old town and is a music festival hub – the highlight being a big folk music festival in June.
We have been putting it off for ages but are literally on our last few items of clothes and so our first stop in Tartu is at a laundrette where we will spend several hours attacking our huge laundry pile – having realised there is no such thing as a laundrette in Finland. It’s pouring with rain, but it doesn’t matter, we have bellies full of Thai noodle soup, and Latvia to plan 😊
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