Pärnu, Part 2 - Towel day
The nightclub was a bit meh...the others mostly liked it, but they like that kind of "music". I found it just too expensive. Before that we had met up at the other hostel and just sat around (outside or inside) and drank...that was more fun. Some people even went for a midnight game of tennis on the adjecent court.
The next day, the plan was to go to a waterpark and swim. I wasn't really sure about that, and since I ended up getting up pretty late and was surely going to miss the meeting, I called Toomas to find out where and when the bus back to Tallinn would leave and decided to explore the town a bit. But then one of the Estonian tutors arrived at the hostel and gave me a ride to the meeting point in his car. I still didn't feel like going to the waterpark, and ended up going to the beach with a few people instead. 20°, walking on the sand and in the Baltic Sea, it was almost the perfect summer day.
The time to leave approached quickly, so we made our way back to the meeting point for the bus - and saw a lot of worried faces. Someone had parked their car in front of the bus so it couldn't leave. It turned out to be the landlady of the second hostel, who claimed that towels had gone missing from the rooms. The people who stayed at that hostel said that there had never been enough to start with (only two in a room for 4 people), but since they had brought their own they didn't complain. That was a mistake, because now the crazy woman demanded compensation. In Germany I would have had no trouble calling the police - this was a clear case of coercion (Nötigung?) - but who knows how Estonian police works? In the end Toomas just gave her some money and she went away.
On the way home, pretty much everybody slept on the bus...and then continued sleeping at home. Seems like nobody went to the party that night.
The next day, the plan was to go to a waterpark and swim. I wasn't really sure about that, and since I ended up getting up pretty late and was surely going to miss the meeting, I called Toomas to find out where and when the bus back to Tallinn would leave and decided to explore the town a bit. But then one of the Estonian tutors arrived at the hostel and gave me a ride to the meeting point in his car. I still didn't feel like going to the waterpark, and ended up going to the beach with a few people instead. 20°, walking on the sand and in the Baltic Sea, it was almost the perfect summer day.
The time to leave approached quickly, so we made our way back to the meeting point for the bus - and saw a lot of worried faces. Someone had parked their car in front of the bus so it couldn't leave. It turned out to be the landlady of the second hostel, who claimed that towels had gone missing from the rooms. The people who stayed at that hostel said that there had never been enough to start with (only two in a room for 4 people), but since they had brought their own they didn't complain. That was a mistake, because now the crazy woman demanded compensation. In Germany I would have had no trouble calling the police - this was a clear case of coercion (Nötigung?) - but who knows how Estonian police works? In the end Toomas just gave her some money and she went away.
On the way home, pretty much everybody slept on the bus...and then continued sleeping at home. Seems like nobody went to the party that night.