Brize Liepaja

... It is small. There is a large park along the ocean. Only a few people, dressed warmly, are walking along the beach.

More than elsewhere, the Soviet influence on buildings is shown. Stark buildings intermixed with the old homes.

In talking with a couple of locals, very few Americans tour Liepaja. Other than other Latvians, it is mostly German and Swiss.

I find a great restaurant. There is ...

... as well. Another slightly offbeat side trip, but it's what it's all about. Further north on the coast is the town of Liepaja, where we stopped for dinner in an old 17th century coaching inn. We had a great night sipping wine and polishing it off with tumblers of traditional Absinthe. BLOODY HELL! Boy did it knock our socks off! We hardly even remember making it back to the van, nor putting ...

... way of living, it's so nice!!!. When i've open my eyes and went to the kitchen, they were a girl with the baby, water melon, cofee , and very important !the picture of Mohamed, (the same one than in the Danish new's paper) which made a scandale in the world, cause suddenly liberty of expression was not alowed for a week. And the baby who was about 1 year old and just start to say some few words, look at the picture and say "Mohamed"...so i asked the girl "why ...

... Pat and Mary Asian Circus-Sideshow Freak in the Baltics Moment #9: Like in the Axe body spray commercials, we officially have our "Bow Chick a Wow Wow" back - people are checking us out like crazy still! We arrived in Liepaja - wow, a pretty run-down place. As we took the tram into the city centre, a local woman started asking us questions about where we were from, do we speak Latvian, do we like ...

... for anyone to walk around. the bus drops me in the middle of the residential area which is identical block after identical block, with the only exceptions being the odd, gutted or unfinished block. The area is still populated and judging by the vehicles not badly off but it is not pretty. In the midst off this Soviet architecture is some 1900s naval architecture and a Russian orthodox church from Imperial Russian times. The Church in particular provides a ...

Our short stay in Liepaja just wasn't long enough. Our hostel was about 2 blocks away from the beach and it bloody rained. That didn't stop us from going to the beach though. We went out one night with some people from the hostel, but mainly just chilled out playing air hockey, wathing DVD's and drinking.

Not yet having had enough of beaches, but not wanting to extract any more cash, I moved on from Klaipeda up to Liepaja, about 100km up the coast, in search of the Latvian equivalent and (from what I had heard) a rather fantastic hostel. I was a little disappointed. The hostel I had been intending to stay at was closed for renovation, so ended up in a nice enough, but fairly anonymous place ...

Got to the bus station fairly early expecting that we might have some problems trying to book 4 student tickets on a bus to another country, however the woman who dealt with us this time was more than helpful and even though she didn't speak any English we managed to get the ticket and with a student discount in minutes. The coach arrived and we put our packs in the hold and off we went. Arrived at the Lithuania/Latvia border after about an ...

if you want any of the photographs in a higher resolution, just let me know abasty@gmail.com more information about Liepaja Liepaja, the Liepaja at Wikipedia Liepaja, official Liepaja website diary entry Schon die ganze Welt bereist ich hab' Vom Abend- zum Morgenland Vom Süd- zum Nordkapp Doch nirgendwo fand ich einen Ort wie an diesem Strand Ich ...

... time or you will become sick. At least I will. I am sick at this point. Visiting Petersburg as a tourist in summer must be an entirely different expercience. In daily life you have to fight a lot. Fight with the authorities, fight with the teachers, fight with the administration. There is always some superfluous rule that needs to be obeyed. You can ask an administrator for half an hour why something is being done a ...