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We're Back - Latvia
... then stand in the aisle for 15 minutes. We sat back in one of the lounges while watching all the the sheep being herded, it was a good 30 minutes later when we casually walked off the boat ànd out to a taxi. Five minutes later we are at our hotel.
This place used to be an old convent, very quaint, old timber winding staircase to our cute room, very basic. Our view is a beautiful ...
Memories in the Making
... including the “Riga Castle” which is now the home of the president of Latvia. The tour was inexpensive, informative and interesting but the English spoken on the pre-recorded tape was almost incomprehensible even if it was incredibly funny to listen to.
Since it was still early, on this lovely day, I grabbed a salad lunch and continued to wander aimlessly, enjoying the amazing detail on the old style buildings and also enjoying the people passing ...
No Foto; No Smiling; No Kidding
... occupied their country, murdered thousands of their ancestors and, well, you get the picture. This is my problem and I need to figure out how to get past it.
"You are now what you were then," is a phrase--a book title, actually--that seems to always ring true for me. I am ill at ease with "Russians" because when I was a boy, Nikita Khrushchev made it clear that he intended to kill me and bury me and he did it while pounding his shoe on a desk at the United Nations. We ...
Visiting my great grandmother's birthplace...
... a long day and my throat is raw and sore. I've been downing honey and Latvian Lemsip and sucking Halls lemon and honey lozenges. Will back it up with some Panadol tonight too.
Tomorrow we're going to try and see my 85 year old cousin, Zelik, but sadly he is in hospital right now with asthma. Hopefully both he and I will be well enough to see each other before I leave. Zelik has an incredible ...
On the Baltic Sea once again, in Latvia!
Inching my way north to Helsinki, where I turn and go east. People ask me my destination, I say: "to the World's Expo in Shanghai'; they look at me quizzically. Well, not exactly the most direct route....
I got up, had FREE coffee at the hostelgate in Vilnius. A first. I must remember to remark on that for hostelworld review. That ...
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