Riga Travel Blogs

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Driving back to Riga I guess we should have started our trip from Elva in Estonia to Riga airport a little bit earlier but it is always easier to say that when you know everything afterwards. We left Sunday afternoon at 2 pm and our flight from Riga to Brussels was planned to leave at 6 pm. The …

Arriving to Riga,first stop of my baltic´s adventure i had a flight conection from London stansted,it wasn´t funny,because i had to wait all night into the airport, my checkin was 4 am,because departure flight was 6 am,anyway,most important was to arrive to Riga in the morning,Franks Hostel was…

even though Riga and Vilnius are capitals of baltic states, they are very different. by architecture and just by atmosphere. :)

      Advents has for me been a time for preparing for Christmas with baking different types of small Christmas cakes, Christmas decorating my house, writing Christmas letters and figuring out what to by for Christmas presents to family and friends.     The last …

When Riga was founded in 1201, its closest neighbours Vilnius and Talinn were not yet to be found on the map on north-east Europe, nor was Stockholm, Helsinki or the former capital of Eastern Prussia, Köningsberg . Riga is ofen and deservedly reffered to as the city of parks and gardens because al…

Today is going to be my first venture into the city all by myself. we drove trough on saturday, before the car broke down, and i have a good map, but I really don't know anything else. I know which bus to take from here, and which to take back again, but of course I forgot to have my friend show me…

The day started out pretty normally with me sleeping late and Rob getting up to do some work and play on the computer some.  Once I got up I got him motivated to get things done. He had to run errands before we left for the flight.  While he did that I got the last of the stuff ready to l…

Approaching Riga International Airport on a dark February evening, I noticed the snow outside for the first time. It was blowing past the wing in ferocious streaks of white. I turned to Jodie, wondering whether to tell her. After all, it had taken some hard convincing to get her to go to Latvia. I …

Me and my sister decided to entertain ourselves between Christmas and New Year and visit our friend in Latvia. It was shot but really fun trip! Three blonds in Riga - what can be better?! :) Hahaha ;)

People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Eric (America), - Hostel owner Frank (Australia) and Unknown (American) for been full of c**pRiga highlight: 'This guy from LA tells me theres such a thing as 'An American card!' Oh yes indeed and listen to how well it works! He arrived in…

Today we first went to visit some Art Nouveau style buildings in Riga. These were not in old town, but in the newer part of Riga. These buildings were really beautiful!  There were a lot of details in carving of statues, faces on the buildings. The windows were not simple rectangles. Some buil…

Last night I couldn't sleep untill 4 am as the nightclub beat next to the hostel was really loud. And Riga itself is a quiet town so you could imagine the impact of noise. The check out was at 12noon so I leisurely woke up at half 10 and had breakfast and stored my backpack at noon. I made my way t…

This is a warning to anyone thinking of going to Riga in Latvia. There is a certain section of bars and clubs which focus on ripping off tourists with large bar bills, followed by coercion and threatening violence to those who don't want to pay. This happened to friends of mine in a bar formerly kn…

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