Thursday, June 4, 2026

Depeche Mode Pinball Bar in Estonia

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors but there is an epic pinball experience in Tallinn Estonia. 

Today we are in Estonia, the last country on this trip. We decided to come here for the slightly cheaper airfare and the ferry ride from Helsinki, but we got a whole lot more including one of the more fun pinball experiences of the trip. 
The Depeche Mode Baar is a bar that plays all Depeche Mode all the time and also has pinball machines. My kind of bar!  
We ordered a couple of beers, got a bag of €0.50 coins, and found the pinball machines. 
The lineup of machines was really unique and fun and they all played great except for a stuck spinner on Family Guy. 
The machines cost €1 per play. The replays were low and the matches were pretty generous so we got a lot of games in for €20. 
I even got to leave a little bit of me there. 
We didn't see the themed cocktail list until we were leaving. 

It was a great place to hang out for the evening and we would totally go back if we had time. 

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

All My Favorite Photos from Helsinki

It's nearing the end of our 3 month trip and we are pretty exhausted. We have a ferry ride to Tallinn Estonia today and then 2 nights in Estonia until we fly back to Chicago and take a train home. Here are my favorite photos that we took during our week in Helsinki. 
I got the VR Rail owl to sit on my arm for a bit. 
The Helsinki Symphony was awesome 
This Transit Stop was decorated with real flowers in a vertical garden. 
Our friend joined us for this leg of the trip and we had a great time. 
We have had some amazingly delicious food court meals here. Nothing like mall food courts in the US. 
The early 80s subway trains are awesome looking. 
Subway Station art
This museum rocked. 
The museum has a prefab Futuro house. 
That you could enter!
Whatch your head and your step. 
The museum also had cool textiles. That part was like a really nice IKEA. 
There was a crazy mirror room that you could walk around in. 
The center section was color changing. 
I saw this wacky hat Donna refused to buy and wear. 
I saw this wacky outfit I refused to buy and wear. 
The hotel we are staying in is a converted prison. 
The group isolation room was crazy. 
This is where the meals were served. 
This was my room whenever I was annoying to be around. 
Donna had to take a close look at the toilet to ensure there wasn't any prison wine. 
Absolutly not a Miami Vice beer. 
The Olympic Stadium has an observation tower you can go to the top of. 
You could also go into the stadium. 
Here is more of that awesome early 80s subway. This was at the transit museum. 
We went to a touristy but delicious restaurant that locals go to as well. 
We rode the ferry to another fortress on an island. 
A Eurasian Oyster Catcher and babies!
And that's a wrap on Helsinki and Finland!  We would come back. Helsinki is awesome!!!