B & B Riga
Gertrudes 43 Riga, LV-1011, Latvia
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The Road To Riga
... very luxurious room and then went for a walk, in which I was very quickly impressed with the sights along the way.
The town is sweet and small, therefore I reached the center very quickly, making it easy for me to get a sense of direction, find maps and stuff like that. I really only spent a little while, poking around, looking in shops and the like, then I got hungry and stopped in a small shop for a sandwich before taking a nice relaxing bath and hanging out in my hotel.
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Riga - party town of the Baltics
... bus with a tray table and foot rest. Then there was the business class section at the back of the bus which consisted of tables with two seats in front and two seats behind. So basically, I had paid for a seat where I would be facing other people, travelling backwards and I was offered a muesli bar and some water. And this is business class? The standard seats looked more comfortable and at least they had leg room. I had an old Russian couple in front of me who were all spread out ...
The most underrated city on Earth?!
... good. However, this is all an aside because this blog is supposed to be about Europe's or even the worlds most underrated city - Vilnius in Lithuania.
I honestly can't speak highly enough of the place. It is full of beautiful buildings which rival Tallinn's Old Town plus it doesn't have any of the pretentious 'Disney Land' feel of Old Town Tallinn which seemed to be a tourist honey pot in the midst of degradation. On the contrary, Vilnius is clearly ...
Partying in Riga
... thought Napoleon was in town to try and kill him. Unfortunately for them he was actually in Vilnius at the time!
When I get back the owner of the hostel Gerrerd persuades me to sign up to this shooting activity. This guy is the most chilled out bloke I have ever met. He told me the way he came about the hostel was that he was on holiday in Riga when he went out one night on a bar crawl with the owner of the hostel at the time. He said it was ...
Beware of the Underbum in Latvia
... history; Katie and I checked out a great and depressing Museum of Occupation. Long story short: screwed by Russians, screwed by Nazis, screwed by Soviets. Then a little bit screwed by their own politicians. Woo! I know quite a bit about WWII and the Soviet era, but it's a bit startling to realize that hundreds of thousands of people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were deported, disappeared, or executed during the occupations between 1940-1991...they are ...


