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Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga March 19th 2008

It was yesterday evening when I was considering my next year and how it will look like... and suddenly out of blue air I got this crazy idea of spending my summer somewhere abroad. As I have to start my master studies in September, I have my time only till then. And as I am in AIESEC and are we kind of dealing with internships :P ... hi hi... well, You got my point... I want to go on an internship during the summer. I started to consider the destination... and as I was visiting Anki, I just looked at her and my decision came itself. I want to try Romania! As I want an internship only for 2 or 3 months, than I see only Europe for it now. And Romania seems to be the ... read more
Romanian flag
Romania
Romanian castles

Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga March 10th 2008

Having booked our flights to Riga back in November our trip East seemed to come around incredibly quickly after our last jaunt to Krakow. The usual silly o'clock start that we have become so used to saw us arriving in Riga without any problems, and a first for boys club - a taxi driver from the airport that didn't want to either rip us off massively or try and kill us with his dodgy driving. Result! We were booked into the comically named Friendly Fun Franks hostel which proved to be an absolute winner - arranging a couple of great trips for us, having a 24 hour bar and greeting us on arrival with a free beer each! The weather was decidedly on the nippy side the first day in Riga, and this certainly wasn't helped ... read more
Riga from St Peters spire
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Bobsleigh start

Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga March 10th 2008

Llegamos a la capital letona cuando ya ha anochecido, y Riga nos recibe durmiente y gélida. A la mañana siguiente pequeños copos de nieve caen perezosamente, y tras abrigarnos concienzuamente bajamos al Hall del Hotel donde nos espera Ieva ( de la oficina de turismo de Letonia) . La ciudad ha recuperado su actividad habitual y cuando llegamos al "Latvian Etnographic Open Air museum" empieza a nevar con mas fuerza. Despues de la visita de rigor al lugar ( o sea casas y mas casas bajo la nieve) volvemos al centro de Riga, donde visitamos las principales atracciones de la ciudad vieja que ha sido reconstruida en su mayor parte en los ultimos años ya que en la segunda guerra mundial Riga fue muy castigada por los bombardeos. Pero la visita estrella de Letonia no esta ... read more
Chocolates Laima Riga
Nieve en Riga
Liepaja

Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga January 22nd 2008

well well well well. i find myself sitting at riga airport like a giant lemon, all tired out and wearing too many layers. see, its dang cold outside, but inside its el scorcho. very annoying. been another interesting day really, yesterday was insane. maybe not as insane as a man holding a gun to his head on a tram, but still, latvia is mad. so yes, recap. woke up early yesterday as arta had school so was in the centre of riga by 9.30, which isnt that early, but it certainly felt it. arta went off to school and i went to the train station. riga's train station is a strange one, it must be said. as far as i can remember it was my first train station experience where there was no english whatsoever, which ... read more

Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Jurmala January 21st 2008

it's cooooooooold. well, lots to put in here i guess, has been an interesting couple of days. i'll do the right thing and start at the beginning, makes the most sense really. ok, a matter of life and death in latvian was wonderful, not that i picked up a word of it but of course i pretty much know that film off by heart, so it wasnt really a problem. i must have looked a little silly talking over that 'may i remind you sir, we are not alive at all' bit. wonderful bit though really, probably one of my 3 favourite movie moments ever. GEEK. anyway, watched that, and went to sleep. after being rudely awoken by a cat, i got up and had a morning coffee and breakfast. breakfast consisted of these little slices ... read more

Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga January 19th 2008

hello there, return of all this i suppose. i will start by a little spiel about east midlands airport. what can i say about that place? i'll put it joint top with rome ciampano in my list of lamest airports. now, i havent been to skopje yet and from what perry mccoy tells me it sounds lacsidasical, but for now, the triad of notts, derby and leicester join rome at the top of that unfortunate pile. hah, pile, how appropriate. despite that, absolutely beautiful flight. that one definitely tops that particular list anyway. i've always said that flying at night was my favourite thing, but i can probably now change that for flying in the early hours of the morning, sunrise included. just absolutely charming in every way, i wanted to sleep but didnt want to ... read more

Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga December 12th 2007

Flew Ryanair from Bristol to Riga on 12th December 2007, returned on the 17th. Stayed at Hotel Tia; a little out of town, but otherwise decent hotel for the money.... read more
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Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga November 27th 2007

Well, here I am again, my first post on the blog at the age of 24. What happened since my last post…many things, I had a trip to Siauliai, 200 Km West from Vilnius, I went to Riga to Chair and facilitate the CPS there and I had a party weekend in Vilnius. Let’s take them one by one and in order. First of all I had a pretty wild weekend for my b-day combined with the “boys and girls party” of AIESEC Vilnius and the goodbye party for Munkeet, one of AIESEC Vilnius trainee. On Friday night we had a small drinking party at my place with Jonas, Mantas, Andrius and Rytis, after that we went out in one of my favorite pubs “Prie Universiteto” and we had some drinks and danced. Later on ... read more
Boys and girls party
hill of crosses
Siauliai

Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga November 9th 2007

Well, its been a crazy last few days. Not only has the temperature gone down by 2 degrees each time as we move east, the landscape, the people and the language changes dramatically too. After Norway, we flew to Finland, from Bergen through the very efficient Oslo airport and onto Helsinki. Me being quite naïve and expecting pretty much all Scandinavian countries to be the same got a wee bit of a shock in Helsinki. Helsinki is a mixture of the Viennas and Pragues of this world, with a bit of Scandinavian thrown in for good measure. This is my conclusion after spending a sum total of one full day wandering around the city centre. We did the cheap and condensed 3T tram tour of the city which was nice to be able to see a ... read more

Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga October 27th 2007

February 2005 It might seem a very obvious statement, but Riga in February is cold! As a couple who hail from the North East, cold never really featured in the list of things to be worried about….but this was COLD! John sometimes gets carried away with the photo taking opportunities, but this was instant frost bite just taking the hand out of the gloves to snap. Welcome to the Russian front. The hat might look over the top in the pictures, but believe us it wasn’t for decoration. This was our first visit to the Baltics and as you might have read, the other countries have now been visited or at least the capital cities and surrounds. The first impression (other than the Cold), would be that Riga is not as picture book pretty as Tallinn ... read more
House of the Blackheads
Russian Orthodox Cathedral & Reval Hotel Latvija
Daugava River




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