Day 7 Rakvere to Haapsalu (via Tapa and Tallinn)

Today we left Rakvere to visit Tapa, drive through Tallinn and visit the Estonian Open Air Museum, and return to Haapsalu. We stopped in Tapa to see the two churches for the one small town.




It took us a long time to get to Tallinn, as we stopped to look at some old stone cist graves that had been uncovered when they built the freeway to Tallinn. They still lie right beside the road and we almost drove right by them!! We visited the open air museum, which is where they have picked up lots of traditional farmhouses and farm buildings from all over Estonia and transported them to Tallinn. The weather was cold, and being right on the sea the wind was ferocious! We were a little disappointed with the museum - as we had seen these farmhouses all over the little villages in Estonia, and it seemed lazy that they had picked them up and dropped them in Tallinn so visitors didn't even have to leave the capital to see the 'traditional Estonia'. We left late in the afternoon and arrived in Haapsalu around 7pm.