The Baltic is history - medieval restaurant dishes

For the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the second world war did not really end until the collapse of the Soviet Union in early 1990.
It is worth knowing if you want to understand the spirit of the Baltic states today.
Our tour guide in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is recalling the complex past of the city.
Today, though, the old town looks like
Perfect tower and clock tower and pastel-
I think this is the cutest medieval town I have ever seen.
I want to take a perfect picture of a girl in medieval costume.
The guide's lips were tight due to troubles.
She said the girl was not Estonian but Russian and she pulled me back on her track and we went back to the complicated past in Tallinn again.
The conquistors are the most important in this guide-robbing Danes, German knights, Swedes, czars, Russians, Germans (briefly)
After the First World War, the Soviet Red Army, the Nazis of the Second World War, from 1944, the Soviets. . . again.
The grim description seems to be inconsistent with the storybook images around us today.
Tallinn was liberated from a series of oppression and has not yet been occupied by tourists.
The old town was restored to the venue for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, retaining the authenticity of Russians wearing Estonian clothing, but our tour guide did not have that.
We will travel to Toomkirik, chief Lutheran Church of Estonia, where she once again resides in Knights and German businessmen.
The coat of arms covering the walls is their monument.
People with palm tree patterns indicate the ancestors who participated in the Crusades.
German businessmen settled here, and Tallinn joined the trading city of the Hansa alliance.
Here you can see the graves of the members of the Tallinn Guild. "And it continues.
I listen politely as usual.
Now we will see the Katariina Guild, the craft studio where Masters, apprentices and students work together, which is the convention.
We have been told that this is true and is the proper bridge between the Middle Ages and the modern days of Estonia, and I understand her point of view.
Thousands of Russians settled in Estonian territory during the Soviet era, but culturally, it was not another Eastern Europe.
There is no doubt that Tallinn is deep.
From Kiek, located in Cape De, a medieval tower, Ivan's terrible Cannon Ball is embedded in it, to the wine cellar where World War II was blown up, it has a rich history.
Tallinn set the tone for us to go south.
We arrived at Parnu, an influential resort town in Tallinn.
Russia is good-
Represented by onion
Our new guide, the Orthodox Church and Garina pray and light candles.
She is a delightful woman in Riga, Latvia's capital.
Galina said her family was placed in Riga by the "big Russia.
Garina will accompany us across the border and take us to the new art district in Riga.
Galina said that despite the turmoil of the times, it was one of the largest and best in the world until World War I, many of which were built by the father of the Russian filmmaker Mikhail Eisenstein
We crossed the moat in Riga.
Hundreds of small padlocks decorated the bridge, and their lost keys threw them in the water below in an optimistic manner, marking Riga's modern marriage --day citizens.
Old Riga is also very optimistic.
The Batten Knights built the Dome Cathedral, and in its 1880 s it gained the world's largest organ-still one of the best.
The Guild building, reconstructed in 1999, includes the Grand blackhead merchant guild.
St. John has the cutest mesh vaulted ceilings, and St. Peter offers panoramic views of the red roof of the old town of Riga.
There are countless medieval buildings and Roman storage rooms, such as Rozengrals. this is a restaurant serving authentic medieval dishes. the taste is very good.
However, the damage of Riga cannot be ignored.
The dark foundation greeted us, and the burning photos of Riga bid farewell to us.
In addition to the Baltic crisis earlier, the second world war raised huge concerns.
A German bomb dropped and Latvia was forced to stand on the Russian side.
Both groups joined and withdrew, and loyalty formed.
Eventually the Soviets stayed.
A large number of people were subsequently deported to Siberia.
So our walk around the Latvian Occupation Museum is sobering.
Topics include party Wars, Father opposition to son and will to survive.
Posters were presented in all aspects.
But the blonde cut a 11. year-
The old Latvian girl summed up on 1952.
We understand that the Baltic conditions enter Lithuania.
Garina took us to the mountain of the Cross, a lonely place, and for centuries the Lithuanian have used the cross as a symbol of difficulty, hope and faith.
It was of special significance in the Soviet era.
The bulldozer came, but the cross was returning all the time-about 100,000 vehicles a year.
It is so common that it is difficult to believe that the Lithuanian people were the last European pagans.
Our guide in the capital Vilnius, Olga, said the church became a warehouse under Soviet rule.
The beautiful San Camille Museum has become an atheist Museum.
It's worth a visit.
Similarly, the gate of the Dawn church is above the east gate and the Gadi Minas Tower, the last tower of the old castle, where a string of occupiers hang flags.
Vilnius is more than just a monument and another lovely medieval town.
In the center of the city, there is an independent republic of Uzu, ruled by artists.
In the embassy district, it is the bust Image of American rock musician Frank Zapa.
"Yes, we do have a sense of humor," Olga said . "
"But please visit the KGB museum if you have time.
Margaret Thurton is a guest of bento International and Scandinavian Airlines.
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