Down Under influence in Tallinn

I should have known better, but I was not expecting much influence from Australia during our Christmas break in Tallinn. Not that I had really thought about it, but perhaps naively I was just assuming we might be the only Aussies around.

Of course I was wrong about that. It turned out that there was a clutch of London-based Australian’s staying in our hotel. And when we entered a café one morning for a warming coffee, the only other group in the place were Australians. So that sort of things happens I suppose. Then we came across an Aussie flag flying in a side street. On closer inspection, we found it was outside the “Pub with No Name”, but with no Australian beers advertised or anything like that, the only other obvious linkage to our homeland was that their satellite TV coverage included cricet (sic). But the most bizarre Antipodean influence was to walk past a restaurant and hear an Estonian cover version of Crowded Houses’ Weather With You wafting out the door (and let’s not argue about the origin of the Crowdies and settle on the fact that we love them!). It sounded just like something from Eurovision…

Shane