The classic tour of the city day. Definitely the most sprawling of the tours so far (though perhaps not as much as the many kilometer tour in Saaremaa) from the balcony monument where Estonian independence was first declared in 1919, back to the white beaches. This was interluded by a tour of an allergy free inn by a rather eccentric lady who proceeded to pinch my ribs out into her garden to see the flowers and take pictures. (That inn was actually quite a fun little tangent complete with fox statues, glowing eyed owls, frogs, and a picture of the owner when she was an actress.) The tour showed that Parnu has been a beach town for practically hundreds of years now. There was some rough bits, where the population fell to about seven, but its kept moving on, as Estonia has done, through many occupations and wars, keeping their culture with them along the way.
The tour was followed by the Tervise Paradiis spa and Biggest Water Park in Estonia.
I shall put it shortly: IT WAS BLOODY AWESOME.
The rapids slide (with whirlpools, odd turns, cauldrons, and drop offs...without a inter-tube) gave me a new love for waterparks. The other waterslides were overrated (I only say this because my billowy shorts acted as water parachutes that stopped me midway into the Tunnel o' Blackness).
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