{"id":17440,"date":"2023-07-07T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17440"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:48:47","slug":"daily_3070_-_off_to_estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/07\/07\/daily_3070_-_off_to_estonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3070 &#8211; off to Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Estonia with the kids, to visit family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always used Tallink ferries to get there (apart from the early days when I flew) but this time we&#8217;re trying a different approach. Tallink never reinstated the second ferry (after cutting down from daily trips to every other day during the covid pandemic) and now their schedule doesn&#8217;t suit us. I went looking for alternatives. Flight + rent a car? Expensive. Different ferry line? Better schedule, better prices, better times, but less convenient harbours. Worth a try.<\/p>\n<p>DFDS leaves from Kapellsk\u00e4r which is further away from us than central Stockholm. On the Estonian side they go to Paldiski instead of Tallinn, which is further from Tartu but on larger roads. Tallink ferries are basically floating hotels and act accordingly: there are lavish tax-free shops, onboard entertainment, plenty of restaurants, and they try to keep you there as long as possible to squeeze the most money out of you. DFDS on the other hand just focuses on getting you there: leaves several hours later, and gets there several hours earlier. Which suits us really well. The ferry experience was fun for the kids when they were young, but now we&#8217;re all just waiting for time to pass and wishing we could get there sooner.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed watching the crew play Tetris with all the large lorries.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3070_ferry_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3070_ferry_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Estonia with the kids, to visit family and friends. We&#8217;ve always used Tallink ferries to get there (apart from the early days when I flew) but this time we&#8217;re trying a different approach. Tallink never reinstated the second ferry (after cutting down from daily trips to every other day during the covid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,780,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-estonia","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17443,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440\/revisions\/17443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}