Balta Kaza
Travel Blogs from Riga
Famous for Art Nouveau it seems...
... streets of the old town are cobbled and this extends beyond the area into the Moscow District and Central District in parts. Everything can be reached on foot (if you don't mind walking a lot) but the trams connect everything fairly easily too.
With just a short time to venture round I had limited my list of things to see to just one - the Museum (yes, I know I'm not normally into these!) of Occupation... but I was lucky enough to have covered off quite a bit ...
Anita & Angela's Riga Escape!
... from there, we found a spot to grab some Latvian food before heading back on the train to Riga. We decided to check out the ‘Kiwi bar’ in the Old Town on the way home, which unfortunately didn’t have anything “Kiwi” about it aside from some Kiwiana on the wall, so then went back towards the hotel and found a nice place across the street to try some Black Balsam cocktails, hot wine and dessert. A very good nightcap indeed!
Saturday we decided ...
Cowsheds and Communists
... goateed, flamenco accompanist. Seeing the chemistry between them was moving - the impression was that the act was largely improvised (hence the main man's nerves perhaps). They had no sheets of paper and relied entirely on eye contact and body language to negotiate entries. A solitary old couple waltzed with large smiles, unphased by and seemingly unaware of their considerable audience.
The concert had given us such an attractive taste ...
Goodbye Baltic Area! Up to Kazakhstan
Yoehoe rakkers, een nieuwe blog! Vandaag mijn laatste dag in de Baltische Staten – Letland - en dan op naar Kazachstan!! Van Europa naar Azië. Ja ja, er staan weer nieuwe plannen op stapel. Het idee om via Zweden naar Mongolië te vliegen is ingeruild voor een avontuurlijker en hopelijk mooier plan. Backpacken in Kazachstan, wie doet dat nu helemaal nog? Morgen vertrek ik naar de stad Almaty. Plan is om 2 of 3 weken in Kazachstan te verblijven. Vandaar vertrekt er ...
Let down and hanging around
... n' roll the band was playing. I twirled her around a few times, and she seemed to be having a minimum amount of fun - pursing her lips and looking away. It seemed that I had no idea about courting an eastern european woman. Soon she told me she hated the music and we left the dancefloor.
I thought I'd better chat to her some more - after all, Tom and Raj were dancing with their tall blondes and I had an attractive, sophisticated and moody looking ...
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