Hotel Man-Tess Riga
Teatra 6 Riga, 1050, Latvia
Travel Blogs Nearby
Rocking Riga!
... I was spending a great deal of time wriggling numerous body parts to stop them from freezing!
At the end of the walking tour our guide invited us to lunch at a local folk club with a young student crowd and super cheap food. We devoured some delicious cheese and broccoli soup for just 1 lat!. We found ourselves back there in the evening for dinner where we ran into a couple from Holland we had met on the walking tour earlier in the day. They joined us for a few ...
Fucking hipsters.
... barmen if the place was hipster to witch he responded "what the **** is a hipster" and became incredibly serly with me for the rest of the evening. the music they played was apsolutly incredible, awsome house's stuf with lots of progresive minimial tunes as well. i dident recongnise a single track. so ******* hipster.
...
Riga in the Cloud
... of the hangars was pretty much dedicated to the sale of fish, much of it smoked and I was excited to see that smoked sturgeon (whole) were available for sale. We didn’t buy any, perhaps we should have.
We then took in some of the central sights including St Peter’s church and the House of the Blackheads, more of which later. However, what occupied most of the time that afternoon was our visit to an austere, dark cuboid building, the Latvijas ...
Into the Baltics
... train ride. Train travel throughout the Baltic's is not very fast as the rail network is in a very poor state, but parts of Lithuania are a positive exception. In Vilnius I had my first CouchSurfing experience of this trip - for those of you that don't know CouchSurfin, I'll shortly explain it. Couchsurfing.org is an online community of people who put their couch (or a spare bedroom, or whatever someone can sleep on) available for free to travelers to crash on. I had ...
Wandering the streets of Riga
... 20 years ago I barfed all over Wordsworth's doorstep. On that occasion I had a whopping dose of food poisoning (I haven't been able to eat mushy peas ever since).
Thankfully on this occasion the contents of my stomach did not end up all over the marble floor as I sacrificed my scarf to a higher cause, but I had to scoot through the rest of the museum to find the bathroom where I spent the next 20 minutes ...
This boutique hotel was formerly known as: Man-Tess Hotel


