Hotel Cirulisi
Travel Blogs from Cesis
The hills of Latvia
... and don't want the big city, Kuldiga might be our town of choice. It's full of nice wooden buildings, it is not yet completely renovated and there are hardly any architectural sins: no big Soviet apartment blocks, no factories in the city center, not to many empty spaces with garbage or ruins of houses. The opposite: there were nice parks, some rivers, charming streets and squares. Really very nice and looking very at ease ...
Medieval
Ligatne
First I stopped at the small town Ligatne which has on the one side some lovely landscapes with pine forests and old houses and the oldest paper factory and on the other side The Pension that was one of the most important hideouts for nuclear threat in the USSR. It's a huge bunker so secret that only since 2003 it ...
Castles
I left Tartu early afternoon and my last stop in Estonia was in Sangaste to visit Sangaste Castle. The red-brick castle was completed in 1881 and you can see the influence of England's Windsor castle.
My first stop in Latvia was the town of Valmiera where I saw from the outside the St.John's Church and the ruins of Valmiera Castle. Afterwards I drove to Cesis which lies in the Gaujas National Park where I stayed overnight. Cesis is also called "Latvia's most Latvian town".
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If you like to gamble I'll tell you how to win
... a shack like structure surrounded by trees and a winding path beckoning into an overgrown clump of vegetation. A nearby crow cawwed us a threatening welcome. There were definite and unsettling parallels between Saulkrasti and the setting of the Blair Witch Project.
We dutifully followed the path after confusing the shop owner with a series of "swimming" mimes, passing a number of bleak and grey factories until we finally saw it - the Baltic ...
Uh, we’re not in Kansas anymore
... and took a look around we realized our country abode was actually just what we were looking for. Surrounded by pastures and rolling green hills, we wanted rural and we got it.
We spent our first full day in Cesis doing what we do best – roaming and exploring. The town was easy to navigate and not very big (pop. 16,900), making walking its streets and parks easy. It seemed everywhere we turned there was another interesting building, setting or ...
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