We were having a full day in Parnu and two nights, so booked an apartment. It was in a large old wooden house, with uneven floors and a great stove going between two bedrooms. The owner, Tamara, said her son complained about her living in an old Russian house but it certainly had its appeal.
Tamara looked after her guests and did several loads of washing in her machine for us, which we could hang out in her garden outside. She also had a little campsite for walkers and campers in her garden, with a notice saying if not one is around, put up your tent and pay later. The address is 18 Esplanaadi if any cyclists want to visit.
Parnu is a beach resort where once people went for mud cures. The black mud of that area is supposed to have curative powers, though I never discovered what they cured. The old building for mud treatment is now a posh hotel where you can have spa treatments, with saunas of various types and massages, etc., arranged, it said, on Roman ideas. We passed on. By the time we got to the beach it was drizzling and was a typical beautiful sandy beach on a cold wet day out of season.
Places marked as worth visiting were not open, an Orthodox Church was not open during the week until June, a modern art gallery was changing their display but the general town museum, which our guide book was a little disparaging about turned out to be very interesting, starting with prehistoric finds, including a pendant carved iin human form out of animal bone, from 7500 BC and moving on to the changing dominating powers in Estonia. It has been independent for little of its history.
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