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March 12th 2009

Published: March 16th 2009

And so after a very long and interrupted nights train journey (border control at 3am where we had to take all our bags through individually) we arrived in Latvia at 11. We had met a group of students studying at an international school in St Petersburg on the coach who were going for a short trip to Latvia for a couple of days - we overheard that they were staying in a youth hostel and then real... Read Full Entry

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Lilly, James, Miriam and Alice

thefoursome

we are 4 young whippersnappers off on our gap year travels from hong kong to england by train via as many places as we can afford =) Below is our planned route: And here for anyone who's interested, is the approximate itinerary for what is happening. TRANS-SIBERIAN 11th Feb: leave HK on the train for Beijing 12th Feb: arrive Beijing 13th - 14th Feb: in Beijing 15th - 18th Feb: in Mongolia 19th Feb: on board the train 20th - 22nd Feb: at Lake Baikal 23rd Feb: on board the train 24th - 27th Feb: in Ekaterinburg 28th Feb - 2nd March: in Moscow 3rd - 5th March: in S... full info

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feeling fat after too much good food

lilly and james developing their new style of dance

close up of padlock on bridge

padlocks on a bridge

they have the same tradition as russia!

the museum of war's tower

view through an arch in the old town

riga castle, where the president lives

not much of a castle we brits thought...where are the crenellations!?!?

old town buildings

a square in the old town

more pretty old town buildings

and more

a cat statue

the german guild building on the left, and the latvian's building on the right

walking through the old town

mim being excited at the matchstick message -->

WOW!

alice and mim decided that burning matches all the way down to write the message i love pi was a much more beneficial use of their time than packing!

16th March 2009

Caroline
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Impressed
I AM impressed! Was wondering when Alice might get around to writing something..... All the I's and me's seemed to be in the right places AND you have not only heard of crenallations but could spell them. Do I sound patronising? :-) xxxx

16th March 2009

Laima
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YAY
Reading your blog has never been so much fun! haha. I absolutely LOVE the pic by my clock!!! tis awesome thankyou =) =) =) and i'm glad you found that padlocked bridge too. I need to have a tourist trip to Latvia....half the monuments are new to me! Sounds like you had a brill time there, I feel very proud :D Plus the kitchen where you stayed looked uncannily like my relatives flat in Riga! Anywho, must be off. Lots of love x x x x

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