City Bruninieks Riga

... Drive all around Dublin and the countryside to get the full flavor of this beautiful city and country. Car hire Dublin is highly recommended more than any mode of transport in Ireland. The service providers offer a complete wealth of knowledge to the customers as they know nook and corner of the city. In short they open up the city more widely and clearly from the shopping haven of Grafton Street and the Guinness ...

... stood for like 5 minutes, this dude named Yan completely caught me off gaurd and kinda scared the **** out of me. I was so confused. He was telling me that theres plenty of seats where he is, come, come!!! I kept saying no I was fine but he eventually shoved me through the crowd over to a booth with his friends. The first thing I thought about was a story the Norwegians told me.. how in Latvia, a popular scam is that girls will sit with men and ...

... and was a power session on the local history, ways of life, local places of interest and much more. Its wasn't the typical old town only type focus, but places only locals go like the flea market, which was an incredible assortment of obsolete everything, even Nazi memorabilia, then the fruit & vege market, plus away to a local chocolateir were was had stopped for the best hot chocolate in Latvia (probably the world). The guide was in his mid twenties and just doing it to ...

... and no matter how much you may like it, you can stay there only for so long. So after a while I had to move on. Already from the square one could see the steeple of St.Peter's church, i.e. Sv Pētera baznīca, in the neighbouring Skārņu iela street. Hence it was a logical choice as to where to go next. St.Peter's Cathedral used to be the main cathedral during the Middle Ages for the inhabitants of Rīga. It was mentioned for the first time in 1209. Same as ...

... in the back of a van knocked on the window & signalled us to leave. Now that might have been because it was Saturday morning & thus a service, or it might have been because David was wearing a backpack. We walked away, wondering at the Nazi signs & then it occurred to us that it might be something as innocent as a film - it was. Later we saw some crew with lights & reflectors set up. By then it was almost time for the "Museum of the Occupation of Latvia" to open. That ...

... doing nothing but emphasising the stereotype. All of us were rather peckish after the flight so we found ourselves a traditional Latvian restaurant serving all the local treats. Riga is a very medieval city with cobbled streets with a germanic feel but many of the population speak russian / broken engish. (photos and rest of trip to follow)

It seems the Irish weather has followed us. Rained all night and this morning a soft, constant shower mixed with cold weather saw us eating breakfast at 10 o'clock wondering what an earth we'd do today. The receptionist at the hostel was pessimistic. 'Yes, I think it will rain all day,' she said. The internet weather said we were in for light rain. We took the side of technology (it sounded more optimistic) and headed off on a bus to the ...

... El primer lugar lo encontró Ginny. Era una especie de cafetería en donde se vendía comida Letona casera. El restaurante estaba en la ciudad antigua y los precios eran accesibles. Las sopas eran deliciosas y tenían una gran variedad de guisados. El otro restaurante era una cadena de la cual habíamos leído en nuestro Lonely Planet. Esta cadena de comida rápida vende Pelminis, las empanadas letonas rellenas de carne de res, puerco, pollo, carnero, queso o verduras.

... ourselves by watching another people parade. Most interesting were the many, many stag parties cavorting up and down the Riga Streets. It seems bachelor parties have discovered this small gem as a place friendly and welcoming to their "celebrations," so much so that Riga has become saddled not only with the moniker of Paris of the East, but also the Sex Tourism Capital of Europe. And indeed, anywhere we turned there were ads for every flavor of ...

July 7 Arriving in Riga airport, Things went fine and I took the bus to the center with some french. I bought a city map at the airport store not really knowing about the currency so I found later that it was ahemm high price. I waited at the station as I was suppose to meet with my Hospitality Club host. But for some obvious reason, learned later (hospital care), I never got in touch with her. So I walked to the center and just sat and relax on a bench of the Blackhead square ...