Lost town with beautiful surroundings

First time I got to Paldiski was about year and a half ago. And it is just 50 kilometers from Tallinn!! But now it is one of my favorite places in Estonia.

Paldiski was founded by Peter the 1st as a sea fortress, right before the second world war Soviet Union decided to make an army base with a nuclear rector out of it and deported all citizens from there. So it became a closed secret border town - center for soldier studies and trainings. And stayed like that for many decades. Only in the nineties it lost its status of the closed town, military was sent away, and as it happens usually with towns like this, it started dying slowly. No new people come there, no big constructions happen, so the town itself looks very sad.

But... It has one of the most beautiful coasts around it. We like coming there and standing under wind turbines listening to their sound. Or making picnics right on the precipice with the waves breaking under.