Railway Dog

The Tallink ferries between Tallinn and Stockholm are dog friendly. They also stop off at the Finnish island of Aland at 4am on the way to Sweden. Just remember that if you want to get off in Finnish territory, you need to have a vet administered worming treatment in the days leading up to it. No need when we were just staying on the boat.

I booked a pet cabin, and booking a week or so before in early June, some of the sailings had the cheaper or quieter cabins sold out. The Wednesday evening sailing had all options available. I found out later that you can get an Interrail discount on this crossing, but I don’t know if that includes the cabin booking.

The cabin doors were so heavy, both Baspie dog and I were scared they would cut him in half on closing. They did cut out noise well though, which was handy since the ship was full of school trips of Estonians going to Sweden. How fab they get to do that! Estonians both by language and culture seem more connected to Scandinavia, looking North and West like their coastline.

The ferry from Tallinn arrives in Stockholm at 10:30am Swedish time. There’s a 1 hour time difference between cities. The last couple of hours is through the Stockholm archipelago. One of my favourite places in the world.