Baltic Beach Amber Jurmala
23 / 25 Juras Jurmala, LV 2015, Latvia
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... are more bogged down with rules and bureaucratic structures and are more likely to approach the boss with, “Boss, I have a problem.” We discussed social policy for a good hour, much to our enjoyment. What a perfect day, sunny, breezy, in the seventies, and sitting in an outdoor café in a summer resort town.
After Jurmala, we returned to our hotel and then headed into Old Town Riga. On the way, we tried to visit ...
Really Unremarkable Riga...
... like the way America is with presidents, ‘if the candidates are not suitable for the job (i.e. are sociopaths, psychopaths or misanthropists), all the better!’.
On our way into Riga on the bus, we saw a massive tower which turns out to be not so amazing up close, being a TV antenna and all. Andrew and I had a walk around town and found the Freedom monument and the Cathedral in the Old Cathedral Square (and some weird artwork on the side ...
Wandering the streets of Riga
... art nouveau buildings.
I did go back to the hotel for a nanna nap - although since it's Saturday I should actually call it a Shabbas Shluf (which is yiddish for nanna nap) - hopefully I'll be back to normal tomorrow. The weather is improving so I hope to negotiate the public transport and go out to the Latvian Ethnographic Museum (think the now defunct Old Sydney Town or Sovereign Hill in Ballarat).
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Last week in Ru and last days in Lat
August 23, 2010
Hi Friends!
I am writing you from Riga Latvia where Mike, Rachel and I are for two days before our trip to the states. We are staying in a sweet soviet apartment that some Christians from Canada own and let people stay in when they are not in town. They are so generous, only a donation of 3 lat a day (6 dollars) if you can afford (to pay utilities)...sweet and generous. There are ...
Third city in all first visit to Latvia
... been rebuilt as well as most of the Old Town. The House of the Blackheads is a Gothic building that was destroyed by joint German and Russian efforts. It has two adjoined buildings that are slightly set back from each other with beautiful gables. The house was apparently used for merchants' meetings but it ended up being associated by the group of singletons. The link to the colour black is simply because one of then was of ...



