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sur la route, encore elles...
La Lettonie
repos après la route
La Baltique
empreintes de petites bêtes...
les arbres aiment le crochet par ici...
Arrivée au camping
les petits croissants du matin...
Off to dinner down the cellar.
The gothic looking science museum
Ornate corner building facade
The Cat House
Incredibly ornate facades
House of Blackheads
St Peter's Basilica.
Church spire
The Swedish Gate
The Small Guild facade
Riga Cathedral
Powder Tower
Wendy on a pretty bench
One of many enclosed gardens
The place and its rose garden
The gardens
One of several heaters in an ornate room
Rundale Palace ballroom
We had coffee there accompanied by the local carrot cake
Its lake and church
Alsunga’s Livornian medieval castle
Looking in the other direction. As ever in the Baltic, threes come right up to the edge of the cliff and some had toppled over.
Jurkalne beach. We had miles of sand to ourselves!
The site of the town castle has been turned into an attractive sculpture garden
The 18th century warehouse where we had our lunch
An attractive red brick bridge
Kevin and Nurcan waded the river above the fall
The waterfall
This timber framed building used to be a pharmacy
The main street
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The market square had this unusual carillon clock
For some reason there are models of cows all over the place. This large one
A mechanical one
A white one admiring its view
There is a collection of anchors all over the park we cycled through
For not the first time this trip, we saw swans swimming in the sea
The cape, the trees and the lighthouse
A memorial at Cape Kolka for those who have lost their lives in the adjacent treacherous seas
And Wendy had to hold back these overhanging branches so we could make progress back to the main road. Good exercise for the shoulder!
Whilst looking for a place to have a coffee stop during the journey, we found ourselves on this narrow track
The canal and its parkland banks form a green corridor through the city
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After a brief period of independence between the two World Wars, Latvia was annexed by the USSR in 1940. It reestablished its independence in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Although the last Russian troops left in 1994, the status of...more history

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