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The meat of the Baltic sandwich
... I would have to pay a fine!', 'no you wouldn't!!!!!'. I firmly believe we use our common sense, maybe explain how a system works and let them off, well, after taking the correct fee for the ride. My vicious tongue snapped at her! If I didn't pay, the police would come then I would have a summons to go to court. If I wasn't there with my host, I would have happily let the police arrive, taken a court date then leave ...
Riga
... for Turaida which is a 3 km walk from the station but is a nice regional town. Turaida is an old castle and fortification across a deep river gorge and on a hill above Sigulda. Construction of the stone castle began in 1214 but did not reach its full size until the 16th century after it was conquered by the Swedes. It all came down in about 1776 when all the wooden structures were destroyed by fire. It was not rebuilt until restoration works in the late 20th century ...
Delicious Dumplings - So Nice I Ate Them Twice
... reasonable as I filled my bowl up with and assortment of scrumptous dumplings with sides for the equivalent of just AUD $2.50. After lunch I went to the Museum of Occupation of Latvia which presented very similar information to that of the War Museum I visited yesterday. None the less I still spent close to three hours there, consolidating my knowledge about the Soviet and Nazi Germany occupation of the ...
Marc's magical mystery tour
... complex in the countryside (this area is now very expensive) and then we drove to a beautiful lookout with views over the Gauja River to Turaida Castle - originally built in the 13th century and restored in the 1970s.
After lunching in Sigulda we finally pushed on to Valmiera, formerly Wolmar, a largely German town north east of Riga where my family lived for a time, but stopped once more to see a ...
Entering The East
... They had a VW van which they had turned into a camper but had built everything themselves. Previously they had a Mercedes estate car which they also made into a camper. We got taking some more and I found out that quite amazingly they had managed to drive every single public road in Norway. It had taken them three and a half years using most weekends and all their holidays and they had driven something crazy like 120,000 km in the process because they kept having to drive up to the ...


