Alba Jurmala

... Another brilliant moment. (I hope people adjusted for the millions ways that things can go wrong and when things actually go smoothly it is typically the result of luck, or things actually being planned well. I definitely have my moments but am not really that big of an eff up. usually.) Fortunately I had left an hr and a half to get there, so I was still 30 min early. I loaded up on Latvian trail mix and boarded the boat. Holy ****, this ...

... of about one month - after 8 months of staying cockroach infested places and always having to ask whether the hot water was working I was going to flash pack for a month in of all places Europe. As I've already been to Riga and we were only going to be there a day it was my job to show mum around to all the sites which we did - the weather was **** but we often ducked into coffee shops to have coffees - something I wouldn't be doing ...

... delight, the bus we went on was some sort of luxury bus that I'm sure wasn't usually used for such mundane travel. Instead of having four seats across, it only had three and these were plush and clad with soft leather. The roof where I was sitting was made of glass and there was a good sound system. A very comfortable journey indeed! I got to Riga at about 8pm and stepped off the bus in the ever-present wind which comes from the Baltic sea. It was cold, but my hostel where I was going to ...

... mainly about how cheap property in Bulgaria is. In the evening, i went into town in the hope of finding somewhere to watch the football and soon found myself in Paddy O'Shannons, which believe it not, was an Irish bar. At this point i would like to apologise that my first night away on this life-changing adventure was spent watching Machester United with a pint of Guiness. Sorry. I got up early on my second, and last, day in Riga to see the ...

Hi, This my first day in Riga, I arrive last night with Ryanair, and guess what? we were only 5 mn late, they had to say it on the micro, it's quite unusual for them. After all this time spent in Ireland I had to say good bye to a lot of people. The bad part was to leave all your friends and the familly ...

... cambios y a la incertidumbre, no saber si vas a dormir o si toda la paliza del viaje merecera la pena cuando lleges a donde te propones. Era la hora de desayunar en la estacion de Riga. Andy decidio probar lo que parecia una tortilla y yo me pedi otra. Al primer bocado, Andy decidio que no era tortilla, que era cerdo. Luego paso a ser pollo ...

I was going to leave the Friday early morning. So, all the night between Wednesday and Thursday i spent writing a work for the school in the last moment, the next day i went to the school to hand it in, and had several thousands of different things to manage to do. Finally in the last night i had ...

... A thoroughly petrifying experience. They have no hard shoulders here, and some of the worst driving I have encountered in europe. Worst of all, they didn't seem to feel it at all necessary to move over in the slightest to pass us, even if they had two clear lanes to the other side. At least the police didn't seem to mind us cycling along there, though we couldn't persuade them to register our speed with the speed cameras they were carrying. Shame.

... we knew about what went on in these countries. They have struggled by both oppressive occupations and had also suffered the same "cleansing" of the Jewish population by the Nazi's as many other European countries (which was much more widespread and affected many more countries that we had previously known). This took up the better part of the morning, if not day, and after lunch and some strong coffee, we headed up to St. Peter's church with its viewing tower 72m above the ...

... day visiting the markets in the air craft hangers I had seen the day before and the Science Building, built by the Russians. That night I went out with fellow backpackers to a bar then a club, we had free VIP entry to exclusive areas including a packed strip club. I partyed to the early hours any only had three hours sleep before I had to wake up.