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Hotel Marve Saulkrasti

Rigas 28 Saulkrasti, Latvia

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A travel blog entry by j.mackay

... trundled across the tracks at an alarming speed for ten minutes, twenty minutes, an hour; all the while the scenery outside remained the same - a thick and never-ending forest and no sight of the sea. Countryside just like the uninspired Latvian banknote images. Minutes passed, stations whizzed by and more people got off until, finally, we passed a dilapidated sign: Saulkrasti.

Exiting the train we were presented with a single building, a shop, or ...

Old Sydney Town? No... but still fascinating.

A travel blog entry by slice_n_dice

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... else to do, went back to my hotel and watched some videos I had on my computer. It's one of those strange things when you're on holidays, isn't it? If I was in a hotel with a balcony looking out onto a great view then sitting out there with a cup of tea and a book would be a no brainer but I felt a bit guilty lying on my bed watching the last three eps of CSI (which I'd missed at home).

I assuaged my guilt by following up on ...

Visiting my great grandmother's birthplace...

A travel blog entry by slice_n_dice

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... on her marriage certificate. I have also found a revision list (like a census used by the government for population control and tax purposes) with her mother's family on it. Ettie's mother's maiden name was Mandelstamm and this family was quite populous in Zagare.

There had been a continuous Jewish presence in Zagare (Zhagar) since at least the 16th Century and the town was a lively centre ...

The heart of the boozy Baltics

A travel blog entry by lyndshane

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... guessing game of whether or not someone was Russian or Latvian. We aren’t sure if this is good or bad but fact number two means you don’t have to move very far to find alcohol in Riga – there’s at least one shop on every block selling it in various forms (we even saw one shop directly across the road from another on a couple occasions). We couldn’t help but think back to when we were in some Middle Eastern countries searching ...

Riga, Latvia

A travel blog entry by lostalready

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... br> Latvian beer is also an improvement after the Lithuanian beers, although it is hard to beat the delicious Latvian vodka - never thought I would be using delicious and vodka in the same sentence! The local spirit, Riga black balsam is marketed as a health tonic (its 45% proof) and described by other travelers as the appearance, consistency, taste and potency of crude oil. Its actually kind of nice though...never tasted crude oil to compare ...

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