we spent the day today wandering and climbing up towers in tallinn. the old town is a beautiful mediaeval city, with a torture museum and everything. also there are all kinds of things named after he-who-is-not-to-be-named, who once ruled here.
as it happens i actually got to speak arabic in estonia. this morning i went into a shop to buy some postcards. the woman behind the counter was a muhajiba and so i asked her if she spoke arabic in arabic. she turned out to be from cairo. i knew there were a couple of thousand muslims in estonia, but i assumed they were all uzbek, tajik, chechen or tartar transplants settled from other parts of the soviet empire.
