Avalon Riga

... snot from dripping down my face because
I definitely wasn't going to breath!! It seems that the Latvians have
figured out how to sell more animal body parts than I thought existed.

The
cheese room was equally amusing. Thorstein had told me to go to see the
"circular" women selling and eating their cheese. They had observed
that the sellers often exuded attributes of what they were selling. It
was quite the sight, these older,short, round women standing behind ...

... abandoned
cobblestone alleys. I was so lost but it was incredibly exhilarating.
I headed into some hotel to ask for directions, they pointed me 6
blocks down the street, just across the street from where I STARTED.
hehheh.. yeah, Im totally the seasoned traveler. At the hostel I was
bombarded by some Swedish businessman/hotshot dude that kept asking me
questions about why I don't speak Japanese. As I was checking in I
mentioned my money situation, and he ...

... stairs, he told me he was from Seattle... finally someone who knew where Edmonton was, not just oh, its west of Vancouver. He showed me around the hostel, which had a super relaxed common room with free internet, and his very own collection of CDs that we could play. The kitchen was stocked with free coffee, and he said that all though he had a date that night, he would take me and the two other German girls out on the town before he had to go out for ...

TERÇA-FEIRA, JULHO 08, 2008Riga, Letônia - Um pedacinho da Rússia na EuropaPopulação: 728.000 Dentre todos os lugares que pude visitar ...

... club joints come across as muggers when they approach you suddenly at 10.30 at night shouting at you in Latvian. Seriously, I was approached by around ten of them in half an hour and I didn't actually see any strip clubs. Perhaps they were Jehovah Witnesses? So I eventually stopped and took a leaflet. Yep, they were for strip clubs. You can never pick what the number one tourist attraction will be in a city. I bet Copenhagen would never ...

... peale. Nii see oligi, dzigitid juhatasid meid oigesse bussipeatusesse. Hetkel vahetame osa kaasavoetud ehitusmaterjalist (latid ja naelad) tee ja viski vastu. Aega sellega tegeleda veel oma kaks tundi. Aga lennukis lubati sooja toitu :) Lati internets igatahes sakib - nupud ei toota ja tappidega tahti pole ka.

... was woeful and fumes hung heavily in the warm air. We were getting more and more tired and cranky. At one stage we lost Lou & Lynn in the centre of town. When we did finally catch up we were all stressed and headachie and 800m from a caravan park. We hadn't intended to stay in Riga, but by 7pm or maybe it was 8, it's hard to tell with so much daylight, we opted to stay at the camping ground which happened to be Kipsala ...

... soup but werent obviously a soup... anyway it was alright ; and later on the evening I manage to get someone (french Johan) to go visit the cemetery. After that I went out with Alfredo and some other in town for lunch pizza and later with some redneck americans for drinks in some bars - short sleep. The american guys, we rather all dislike them... So we left with James, Johan, Alfredo on our side ...