Apartments Gloria Riga
59 Stabu street, apt. 5 Riga, LV1011, Latvia
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The Road To Riga
... the seaside. The road was lined on one side with green forest and on the other with glistening sandy coastline speckled with campgrounds and cabins here and there. I was struck by how beautiful it all was and I felt quite happy that I had decided to travel in this way; taking the bus, traveling in style.
The bus ticket for this ride was a mere 25 euros and the bus was more than comfortable during the 4-hour journey. In fact there were bathrooms, and a kind of mini ...
The most underrated city on Earth?!
... river which runs through the town centre is partially frozen and there are still piles of ice lying around in the streets from the snow falls last week. It is a world away from the 25 degree beautiful sunshine we had in Prague!
Even more hilariously, our MASSIVE room has one tiny electric heater to heat what is without doubt the biggest hostel room I have ever seen - complete with a 10 metre high ceiling! Top banter! I felt a bit rough today so ...
A bear and a Mohito with a view
... may invest in some more woolly socks.... a bit of a speciality here. Jo has hooked up with Debbie and I, she reminds me of Cilla black but comes from Leeds and is very well travelled, so she manages to keep things in perspective, while I tend to have a hissy fit over some small thing like ... no hot water !!!!!!!!!! well better go as only one computer here and the inmates are getting restless.
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Partying in Riga
... trusts this guy but we all follow him down a few alleys to a quality bar full of Latvian folk.
I wake the next day fully clothed and head banging - a true sign of a decent night. I had to rush to get to the church, as this is where the free walking tour starts from. It focused on the day to day life in Riga rather than it's history which was a nice change (and certainly less depressing) It feels like everything I have seen up to now has to do ...
Rîga, August 18, 2005 - Thursday
... of Latvian population still lived in two-room apartments within such utilitarian cookie-cutter blocks with crumbling balconies, dirty tiled facades, and heavy, rusting, brown metal doors, which allegedly went for only $15,000 to $30,000 in the age when the ritziest apartments in posh town suburbs of newly independent ex-Soviet republics can sell for as much as $500,000. Soon I started recognising them myself and even telling the difference. "This is a Khruschevka," I would ...


