From Tartu we went by bus to Narvathe border city to Russia. We had already read a lot about Narva and were all the more excited to see the border crossing and the culture there for ourselves. The inhabitants are 95% Russian. We went again with the bus company "LUXexpress", so we had a lot of legroom and the full entertainment program on our 2,5 hour trip. By the way, we both paid only 16€ in total for this trip.
As soon as we entered Narva, we noticed that the town has its very own atmosphere - there are many prefabricated concrete slab buildings and it is not really clean. Our accommodation was also more like a flophouse, but very cheap and for one night perfectly ok.
The border crossing on the other hand is really impressive. On both sides of the river there is a fortress (the Hermann's Fortress in Estonia and the Ivanogorod Fortress in Russia), which are connected with the "Bridge of Friendship". But you can't get to the bridge easily, because there are border controls on both sides. You can also take a nice walk along the Narva River and wave to Russia.
But there is not much more to report on Narva. We definitely found it worth a trip, but we didn't think it was necessary to stay longer than one night. Our landlady in Tartu, Malle, had warned us that the corona infection rate in Narva is very high compared to other cities in Estonia because it is a border town and many truck drivers from Russia stop there. But we didn't notice anything different on the spot.
Funnily enough, a different impression was confirmed, which we had already gained before in the Baltic States: It seems that there is an Irish Pub in every town, no matter how small it is! And indeed, the first thing we found in Narva's city center was an Irish Pub! But we decided to go to another restaurant, which was very tasty but also very expensive and where our language barrier with the waitress at the bill still makes us smile a little bit.
The next day we went on to Tallinn - Estonian capital.
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