Rundale Palace

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We were traveling from the Hill of Crosses to Kuldiga in Latvia,we had taken a different route to the original plan and I suddenly realised we were only 50K west of Rundale Palace so we did a U turn and went east. It was late in the day we had 1 hour to look inside at the 40 renovated of 128 rooms, but we were not told we had to pay an extra lat to take photos inside, we had paid by card as we had no cash yet so we missed out on side photos. It was well worth the visit. The same architect as the winter palace in St Petersburg so it will be interesting to compare. The cost of renovations and the effort after it had been left in the Soviet era is huge.

We then had a big drive to Kuldiga arriving at 9.30pm to

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Photos

Virka Muiza hotel Kuldiga
It reminded me of a haunted house, but it was lovely inside quite quaint, but clean and comfortable.

HK dinner
lucky we had some gerkins and sausage!