Goodbye Ruta, Laura - Liepaja. To depart is always sad... Objectiva> Klaipeda, on the lithuanian Coast Long walk out of the city...gas stations, cafes,....waiting...bla bla...took 2 hours to get a ride. His name was Andreas he was heading straight to Klaipeda. Great guy, loads of fun we had. just saying silly stuff and joking. i was playing a stupid poet, april was happy and warm and andreas was just in the right mood. the sun was going to sleep...behind the trees and the sea. beautiful ride............ it was great fun he stoped at Palangas, a city by the sea, so that [View Full Entry]

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Left Riga in the 15 feb. With April. Objective> Get to the Amber Coast : Hitchhike to Liepaja. Walked back the great stone bridge. Wlaked out of town. Gas station. First ride - Julia - got us to Jurmala and then near the A9 road. from there a women drove us to a bistro in the A-9 road. Next ride, 40 Km, a Electrics truck. Finally a big truck drove us to Liepaja. Beautiful pale sun, behind the clouds. Trees of brown, red and dark green. fragile and naked with no leaves, the pines so strong and dark, covered with snow, [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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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 tube [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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