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Like a streak
weekends are the most fun, and by weekends i mean thursday to sunday I think?
If you travel enough and surround yourself with good people and by proxy good places, then you will-most surely-have a time!
I have discovered that the Beastie Boys are my new favourite band. I discovered this by rapping them in kareoke style. this is where they play the song and then put the words on the screen. The B Boys are some awesomely ...
Famous for Art Nouveau it seems...
... War II. More than 70 thousand Latvian Jews were killed, including during the burning of a Synagogue in July 1941... there now stands the remains of this site and a memorial here.
Of course there are the key sights around the city such as the Freedom Monument (symbol of Latvian Independence/major landmark), St Peter's Church (has a viewing platform although I didn't go up), House of Blackheads (belonged to the Guild of unmarried merchants - apparently in it's time ...
Cowsheds and Communists
... for Napoleon's forces and ordered the total destruction of the suburbs.
Today, just one wooden building remains, the rest a series of brick apartments and warehouses. If this was "real" Riga, it was still a significantly richer place than the "real" Vilnius. Our guide told us stories of the local moonshine liquor trade (only purchasable with a password), of the area's exaggeratedly bad reputation for crime and of the increasingly heavy ...
Goodbye Baltic Area! Up to Kazakhstan
... De beambte op de ambassade die bevoegd is tot het verstrekken van de visa blijkt niet de meest behulpzame persoon. Nee, alleen op donderdag doet ie visa-aanvragen. Hij wil m’n aanvraag niet eens bekijken. Nou ja zeg. Ik denk ik ga hier niet weg voor ik dat visa heb, of in ieder geval duidelijk heb, wanneer ik het heb. Eerst doe ik alsof ik ‘m niet begrijp, en vervolg c.q. herhaal mijn verhaal, dan sta ik daar bijna stampvoetend, maar zonder effect. Na enkele ...
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Klämmer in mig i ett Fokker 50 plan bredvid en annan sömnig resenär som simmat runt i en parfymflaska på morgonen. Det är lite spännande att flyga, mest eftersom människan ej är byggd för detta ändamål och vi därigenom hånar vår kära skapare.
Blir efter någon minuts outhärdlig väntan uppraggad av en söt flygvärdinna som jag flörtar stenhårt ...
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