Age 28+: Second meeting in Tallinn — when everything felt different
Опубликовал: admin, 8-01-2026, 13:06, Chapters about me, 3, 1
After that vibrant January trip to St. Petersburg, we kept chatting for a few more months. Sometimes every day, sometimes once a week. We didn’t share many details about our daily lives, but little by little, about nothing in particular, we continued the communication.
Then one day I suggested she come to Tallinn. At that time I was studying and living in a dorm, so I booked her an Airbnb — a cozy small apartment in a residential area, so she’d feel comfortable and independent. I stayed in the dorm — boundaries were still important.
She arrived at the end of March. I met her at the bus station, helped with luggage. Right away it felt like this wasn’t the first meeting anymore: no “wow”, no excitement. Everything was calm, familiar, much less thrilling.
We spent the day walking around Tallinn. I showed her my favourite places: the Old Town, Kadriorg with its park, the promenade in Pirita, a waterfall in the outskirts of Tallinn. We went to cafés, drank hot chocolate, chatted about everything. She took photos, I told stories about Estonia.
In the evenings she returned to her apartment, I to the dorm.
During this visit we also took a ferry for a mini-cruise from Tallinn to Stockholm and back. The weather was a bit cool and not the most ideal for such trips, but we still got a lot of emotions and saw many beautiful places.Everything was… normal. Pleasant, friendly, no tension. But without that special spark. We already knew each other, and the novelty had disappeared. Pauses appeared in conversations that used to be filled with jokes and curiosity. It became clear that we were a bit different in rhythm: she from a big metropolis with lots of plans and activity, I still a guy from a small town who values silence and stability.
Before she left, we hugged goodbye — warmly, as friends — and she went back to Moscow.
After that the chatting became rarer. Sometimes likes on social media, sometimes “how are you?”. In the future there was one more meeting we didn’t know about yet — I’ll tell about it a bit later in the next chapter.
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