07.02.07-10.02.07 Riga is the capital of Latvia and it is a charming city. Our hostel (The Argonaut) was in the centre of “Old Town” which is where most of old architecture and tourist sights are located. Old Town is full of medieval buildings mixed with very modern cafes, shops and bars. When you walk through the streets of Old Town, you feel as though you’ve stepped into a different era…until you see a big sign advertising cheap beer! We arrived around 11 pm on Wednesday night (the 7th) and decided to grab a bite to eat as we had spent most [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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7th/12th Dec 2006 Latvia again !!!!! Latvia again before christmas !!!!!!!!! The place - 6/10 Nightlife rating - 7/10 Local lady rating - 9/10 Tune of the trip - Body Rocks - Yeah Yeah Thursday Another 1p each way trip to latvia came up so thought why not may as well go back before christmas !!!!!!!,,,, left at 3am from my house and drove to Stansted with Daniel, got through security and flew to Latvia,,, spoke to some bloke on the plane called Rob who was out in Latvia for the first time ,, we showed him how to get to [View Full Entry]

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Some people say you know you can't believe, Jamaica we have a boblseigh team. We have a-one Derice and a-one Junior, and a...... Sanka. The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinters, go to Olympics to fight for Jamaica! I and my confident, elite and highly trained teammates Annya and Stephen could not help but recite this uplifting chant repeatedly (check the video) as we eagerly anticipated our date with destiny. We were standing at the top of a hill overlooking a valley covered with trees; just like most valleys. But unlike most valleys, this one contained a massive [View Full Entry]

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In December I went to Riga with Triin to see Iggy Pop & The Stooges concert. At first we didn't believe that he is actually coming to Riga , because it's so close to Tallinn . Like Iggy Pop! We went there by bus. It was too dark and cold to hitch-hike. Unfortunately. Monday We got to Riga at 10 pm. We had accomodation through CS (www.couchsurfing.com). Our hosts, Maija and Richards came to pick us up at the bus station. They had a really cool kind of a underground appartment on Tallinas iela. We felt like at home. The appartment [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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This ancient pearl of wisdom from Seneca echoes down through the ages as I continue my travels through the beautiful Baltics and delve into the recent history of Latvia. On arrival in the capital Riga you feel like you are in the centre of the world, the beautiful Unesco world heritage listed old town attracts tourists from western Europe and the United Kingdom, is a short hop from it's Eastern European neighbours to the south, fascinates it's scandanavian neighbours to the north, and of course you can ill afford to ignore the 800 pound bear in the neighbourhood to the east; [View Full Entry]

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Latvia the Return !!!!!!!!!! Latvia Baby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the place - 6/10 Nightlife rating - 7/10 Local lady rating - 9/10 Tune of the Trip - Benassi Bros - Illusion 5th to the 9th of October saw the return to the great country of Latvia and the capital Riga. Got another 1p each way on Ryanair and cheap quality hotel so off we went Got to Stansted and met up with the people we where going with Daniel, Dave and Clive and flew out at 2pm Got into riga about 7pm (+2hrs uk time) where Olga was waiting for Daniel (his Bird!!!! [View Full Entry]

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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. [View Full Entry]

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Latvia Europe » Latvia By zapatos de caminar August 20th 2006 Keenan and Selene Lativa - Riga Another Baltic state, another gorgeous old town. There seemed to be less structure to Riga’s old town, it was easy to get lost and trying to find a particular sight was quite hard. The best strategy seemed to be to just wander around and try to work out what you were looking at. Riga’s [View Full Entry]

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