В Латвию на праздник Солнца стояния [View Full Entry]

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Journey's End. Germany - Prague (CZ) - Kutna Hora (CZ) - Auschwitz (POL) - Krakow (POL) - Warszawa (POL) - Kaunas (LT) - Trakai (LT) - Vilnius (LT) - Siaulai(LT) - Riga (LV) [View Full Entry]

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boy is it raining. i'm not going to say jurassic park rain, but it certainly is raining. i'm wet, we'll leave it at that. i almost said to arta before that a bit of rain never hurt anyone, but that is one untrue saying that persists in the world. rain kills millions of people every year! just ask poor old bangladesh. i suppose thats probably something that acquits to social awkwardness, but i cant help but talk about things like that. it's another little part of who i am i guess. phew, introduction out the way. i'm in riga now, but [View Full Entry]

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Thursday, July 17’Th Here I am, in the cozy lounge at Raid und Draugis hotel in Riga. Eurolines left Vilnius at 10 this morning, and it toot 4½ hour to get here. Not surprisingly my first job was to find the hotel. It’s an exellent hotel in the middle of Riga. My room is no. 37. When this was done it was time for a little lunch and a look at the city. There are more tourists here than in Vilnius. That’s especially British low-cost-tourist that’s just here to get drunk. It’s quite annoying to be honest. I walk half a [View Full Entry]

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Hi. My blogging, well. I guess irratic isn't quite the word but non-existent for the last couple of months, it has been. I have just recently cleared the border of Russia and am now back in the EU after over 2 years of being in the Asian part fo the world, and well its intersting to be back. Certainly blogging was the least of my concerns whilst I was in Russia, and almost impossible in Mongolia, and China and Estonia, well, I was just lazy. But rest assured that they are in the post and that for the time being I'm [View Full Entry]

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Autum has arrived here in Latvia now and the change of secnery is fantastic exp in the town of Sigulda where it is the 'extreme sports' capital of Latvia. First though I arrived in Riga from Estonia and meet up with my host in the city and back to her place to have a quick chat, then out for a massive meal then heading out. She was working at a club in the city so that was perfect for me knowing someone behind the bar always helps. Also I got to meet up with a friend from Ireland that I had [View Full Entry]

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well, this mornings was a pretty big waste of an entry, so i shall make up for that with this beast. and beast is most definitely the word to describe the majesty that is about to unravel on this here piece of networky canvas. i suppose i will start off by saying what i know, what everyone knows, and what is generally becoming more and more hard fact as time goes on. i love being here. it's not as if this is the most thrilling place on the planet, far from it. but it's just nice, and i'm a fan of [View Full Entry]

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We always heard about students backpacking around Europe in very low budget (below 10 Euros a day). Even thou we heard all this stories we could never understand how they did it, since Europe has the most expensive costs for transport and accommodation we have seen. So what is the enigma? Only after 90000Km traveled in 3 years on the road we finally found out! We left Tallinn early in the morning, took a local bus to the "hitch hike hotspot" and within a few minutes we got a lift, taken by a guy who used to travel a lot, always [View Full Entry]

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A quick visit to Riga This morning I woke up at 5:30 and headed out, in pitch darkness, to the bus station (I'm amazing with directions when I'm alone!). I bought a ticket for the 6:30 bus to Riga, and I was a little concerned that I felt a bit "crook" (as David would say), but there was a bathroom on the bus, which I didn't end up using but it put my mind at ease. The ride took about 4 hours and I slept a good chunk of it. I arrived in Riga at 10:30 and decided to catch the [View Full Entry]

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My bus arrived into Riga at about 5 in the afternoon. I headed to the tourist info and convinced the lady to let me use the phone to call my couch surfing host. I talked to her and she said that she would come pick me up in an hour. We agreed to meet in front of the opera house. So I had an hour to walk around a bit. My first stop was..a McDonalds. Never...ever....in my life have I eaten at McDonalds twice in the same day, but in different countries. The experience was something I will never forget. From [View Full Entry]

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