After exploring the area around our hotel, getting breakfast and buying souvenirs we finally arrive at the central point of the old town. This is the Town Hall Square, a huge and beautiful square with magnificent buildings and lots of restaurants all around it.
We get our bearings for some time exploring the plaza and trying to decide which way to go first from here.
In the end we decide to start with the Raeapteek (Town Hall Pharmacy) which is right on the Town Hall Plaza. We identify the building, it is in the corner and start towards it hoping it might be open.
It is open though and inside at least the first room is a normal pharmacy with lots of modern medicine, a normal pharmacist and people buying medicine. But there is one more room in the back and that one looks to be the one we are searching for so on we go.
That room is what we were searching for, it has an interesting exhibit about medieval pharmacy including multiple ingredients that to say mildly would never be used now like dried frogs, hedgehogs and other weird concoctions.
Exiting we finally can get a good look at the imposing Town Hall that looks almost like a church which anchors one side of the plaza. In fact now we have again to decide where to go and cross the plaza to go in that direction. This will be a theme for the day as the plaza is in the middle of the Old Town and so by default we have to cross it many times.
This time we pass close to the City Hall wondering at the interesting water spouts in the form of dragoons before going in search of our next goal the Marzipan museum.
