Hello all,
How would you recommend splitting 18 nights/19 days between Bergen, Copenhagen, Tallinn, and Berlin? We love strolling through old towns, exploring history and the occasional museum visit, cafes, shopping, getting lost even in a touristy area, and enjoying natural beauty on a day trip or an afternoon hike. We plan to fly into Copenhagen and out of Tallinn, and will take direct flights between the cities. We have also already visited Helsinki and Stockholm, so they are not on this list this time.

Thanks in advance!

Bergen, Copenhagen, Tallinn, and Berlin?>

Bergen 4 nights - doing Norway in a Nutshell extravaganza and other fjord adventures. Not much in Bergen though a really nice old town.

Copenhagen - 5 nights - be sure to do some easy day trips near Copenhagen like Helsingor and Hamlet's Castle or Viking Ship Museum at Roskilde or many others.

Berlin -5 night - Berlin's attractions are far removed from each other sometimes - a huge city. Spend 1 day at Potsdam and Sans Soucci Palace.

For info on day trips from those cities by train, bus or boat check www.ricksteves.com and BETS-European Rail Experts.

Talinn - 4 nights - I know little about this place.

What time of year will you be traveling? Have you been to Oslo? If not, as you're going to Bergen, I'd recommend you extend your trip to include Oslo, even if it means missing out on Tallinn. The railway journey from Bergen to Oslo is beautiful.
https://en.visitbergen.com/visitor-i...ergen-by-train
If you decide to include Oslo, I'd plan a week for Norway.
As you like old towns, you'll enjoy the Hanseatic buildings of Bergen's Bryggen. I recommend you walk or take the funicular up to Mt. Floyen, perhaps visit Mt. Ulriken as well (which I did not have time to visit). KODE is a cluster of museums in Bergen's center, one of the museums has an excellent collection of Munch paintings, lots of other Norwegian art, too. Of course, if you make it to Oslo, it has the Munch Museum, the National Gallery (home to "The Scream"), and many museums on the pretty Bygdoy Peninsula, such as the Viking Ship, Polar Ship, and Kontiki museums. Oslo's Vigeland Sculpture Park is also not to be missed.

Berlin has amazing museums, such as the Pergamon Museum, and so many other cultural attractions. And a walk through the wurst seletion at KaDeWe seems obligatory. I'd spend 5 nights in Berlin.

I'd spend 5 or 6 nights in Copenhagen, especially if you plan on making day trips out of the city. I loved my visit to the Lousiana Museum.

I've only visited Tallinn as a day trip from Helsinki. It was lovely, and I could see spending more time there, maybe two days/two nights, but its attractions cannot compare with the other cities you'll be visiting. Plus, even if the flight to Tallinn is short, you do lose time in transit, checking out of your accommodation, getting to the airport, checking into your new accommodation and so on. This beng said, Tallinn has a very quaint and attractive old town, very touristy with lots of fun shops and restaurants. Depending on the time of year, cruise ship passengers can make the old town even more crowded. I enjoyed my visit to Kumu Museum, which was a short tram ride from the old town.

When are you traveling - makes a difference say summer vs winter or in between too. Your cities should be sweet in summer but not so nice other times. If you want to see a concentration/work camp near Berlin just take suburban train about 20 miles or so north of Berlin -pretty well preserved in gas chambers - there is a interpretation center of the horrors that happened here. Sachsenhausen Camp before and today:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sach...iw=858&bih=526

https://www.fodors.com/community/eur...ournal-550993/

An old thread I started and many others contributed to - yes old but some things are timeless.