A day in Viinistu

We arrived damp and tired at the hotel in Viinistu but first was it there? Then how to get in?  The place is in a fish factory.  Well. What do you do witha. Fish processing factory when the political situation changes and the Russians stop buying your fish?  If you have a good art collection and money then a gallery, hotel and restaurant.  But May is still out of season, so things were not operating so much.  We did find our way in and all was revealed by a Spannish man who was staying there with his parents.  Everything was closed that night but the restaurant, gallery etc would be open the next day.  We spent the morning in the gallery which we thoroughly enjoyed and the afternoon cycling round the peninsular.  In Soviet times it was closed to all unless you lived there, because if radar and submarine bases.  This has left the area undeveloped and so is now a National Park.  When the Rusians left Estonia the buildings were just all left to decay.

The factory buildings made into the hotel and museum.

Some art work outside.

Abandoned radar buildings.

More erratic boulders.

An enormous building for submarine research, now reverting to forest. We were told it was quite safe to go in and wander round but it was getting late, so we just walked round the outside.  Somewhat sad to see such a fine building rotting away.