Tartu - Estonia's Laid-back Student Town

Tartu is a really sweet little student-dominated city in Southern Estonia. The main pedestrain street (below) is cleverly lined with stylish benches for sitting and splaying-out while still leaving enough space for the kids to kick around hacky-sacks. There are tons of bars, most of them with outside seating. The bar/club pictured left is one of the most amazing I have ever seen. Located is a real gunpowder cellar it's got two levels of wooden tables and benches and a dancefloor in the middle (unfortunately it was 90s night and the almost exclusive American music was getting to be unbearable). Almost everyone in there was a student and it was packed on a Wednesday night. The Tartu University students who weren't in there were apparently outside on the grassy hill overlooking the city where they were drinking massive amounts of beer, playing instruments and hacky sack - the usual. This is what college should be like.