A city the right size
Pärnu is not a village. It has a university college, a hospital, a working harbour, schools, a cinema, its own newspaper. But it is not really a city either — not in the way that swallows you up and keeps you anonymous. It sits somewhere in between, and that in-between size is, we think, exactly right.
We have our own version of this: the cafe where nobody asks what we want anymore, the cinema for when the weather turns, and a few times a year the concert hall, dressed up for something special.
The beach, and the end of it
Walk the length of Pärnu beach and keep going. Past the kite-surfers threading between the dunes. At the very end of the beach, you find Surf n Soul.
A kite surfing school, a yoga studio, a cafe with outdoor tables looking straight at the sea. Vinni the dog wanders between the tables. You walk down the beach and end up at a table with a glass of Vinho Verde, watching the kites.
Supelsaksad
Closer to the main beach, Supelsaksad is an institution — a beach cafe that has been doing its own quiet, characterful thing for long enough to become part of the fabric of a Pärnu summer.
