Blogs from Riga, Riga Region, Latvia, Europe - page 23

arrived in the night, riga airport. cold. had no Lat money... a young guy payed for my bus trip. got out after the great stone bridge...as i had checked out the hostel street in the internet. night, nobdy on the street. "ding dong" who is it? "i want to get a room please" we are full...go away. i wandered for 10 minutes, entered a cafe and the barman showed me the way to another hostel. ....................sleep 15 hours..................... RIGA laundry_gertrudes iela my first latvian word was "prachechnaya" , the place where to wash my dirty clothes. Half the people have no problems speaking to strangers...the other half has serious problems in comunicating with strangers. finaly - the prachechnaya. riga is beautiful, under the sun. Milda girl, holding those three stars up high...beautiful women, all dressed up, ... read more

Breakfast! Even though it had only been four days since we left home the fact that our hostel included free brekfast was fantastic! Egg, toast, jam, cheese, yoghurt and tea! Who could ask for more? Our hostel here in Riga is really lovely - or it was until the Irish turned up! About 40 18 year olds who stayed in drinking til midnight every evening then stumbled back in at various intervals throughout the night - grrr... Enough of the moaning old lady bit - Riga itself is really pretty, especially the Dome Cathedral where we went to a Sunday Service in Latvian, the National Opera House, where we went to see The Nutcracker Ballet, and the Freedom Monument which commemerates Latvia's independence since 1991. The market was a really nice experience too - lots of ... read more

First day in Riga got off to a rough start. We got off the train and onto the platform to discover that it was not only MUCH colder than it had been in Minsk (didn’t think that was possible), but that we were in fact in the middle of a blizzard. Foolishly, I tried to quicken my step in an effort to escape the sheets of falling snow, which resulted in me slipping on the top step of the downward-leading stairs and taking a “quick” ride down about a handful of them. Ouch!! And Ohhh…how embarrassing!! I collected myself and totally played it off like nothing had happened…my ankle was throbbing quite painfully, though. That pain was immediately overshadowed by the numbing-cold from the increasingly falling snow. I had my snow cap pulled down and my ... read more

I'm cheating a bit here, because really, I was on the ground in Latvia all of 50 minutes whilst I swapped planes, but it will be a cool one to have on my travelblog map! Ahh, that's about all, I didn't take any photos, I figured you've all seen airports before. But first impressions were good, it was clean, tidy and efficient, and the staff very helpful when I had a query. Probably wont go back though.... read more

Alone In Riga 5:54 am and I am onboard a train to Oslo airport. It’s strange to think this may be the last time I will ever be in Norway (unless of course my Norwegian friends give me an excuse to come back!). It’s crazy that one year has already gone by. So much has happened this year. I feel like I’ve grown by leaps and bounds and pray that God continues to refine me and teach me even more when I go home. Kaspars K and his friend picked me up from the airport, dropped me off at the hotel and gave me a quick orientation of the area. It is a very nice, clean, new, peaceful hotel with natural colors (it is very inviting even with a desk, which is always good for me). ... read more