Met up with old friends in the evening. Went shopping during the day – a book store is always part of my Tartu itinerary, and a candy store is on Adrian’s.

I bought a bread book and an origami kit; Adrian found a Marvel graphic novel.

In the candy store, we focus on the chocolate-coated jellies. They seem to be popular – I’m pretty sure there were more flavours than even just a couple of years ago.

In the afternoon we went for a walk along the cycle path that replaced the old narrow-gauge freight railway past the slaughterhouse/meat factory and into the riverside industrial district. Adrian commented that it was an odd placement for a slaughterhouse, in the middle of town, right next to a nursery. That’s the nursery I attended as a child, and you could literally hear the noise of a mass of distressed animals being transported to the slaughterhouse from the yard.

I explained that this used to be right on the edge of town, and that the town has grown past the slaughterhouse. Back when I was a child, the town really ended here – on the other side of the nursery there was just some vacant ground with scruffy vegetation and a few odd low-slung concrete structures that I used to climb around on. (Not when I was nursery-aged but later.)

The meat factory went bankrupt in the late 1990s and was torn down in the 2000s. For some reason, a piece of it (or a connection an adjacent building) is still standing. The nursery is still there.

The meat factory may have been there before the nursery, but it was still an odd choice to put the nursery right there. Here’s an archive photo of the meat factory and the map next to the photo shows just how close to the nursery it was.