Laine Riga

Skolas 11 Riga, 1010, Latvia

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Travel Day... braved Gatwick and Air Baltic

A travel blog entry by slice_n_dice

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Had a long day travelling today. I've managed to cull down my luggage but can't stand up straight with my back pack on. It's not exactly a backpackers pack... more a yuppy version. Everyone here seems to have the cabin sized wheelies or giant suitcases.

Rolfe dropped me at Heathrow so I could get the bus to Gatwick. We'd debated …

Visiting my great grandmother's birthplace...

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My first full day in Riga and I left town. I feel like I'm cooking up a bit of a lurgey - I have a heavy chest and a cough but I'm hoping I can fight it off. I was collected at around 9.30am by my guide and researcher Aleksandrs Feigmanis (balticgen.com) and my driver Marc.

First stop was the main Riga archives to apply …

Marc's magical mystery tour

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Woke up feeling slightly better but still a husky Haski! Marc and Aleks arrived at 9.30 and we embarked on our magical mystery tour.

We started with a walk down Alberta Iela (Alberta Street). Riga has an abundance of exquisite Art Nouveau architecture - much of it designed by Mikhail Eizensteins (father of the great Soviet filmmaker …

Riga - an architectural polyglot

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Still have a headcold... but they seem to have excellent pharmacists here. Got a good cough medicine and a nasal spray that's putting holes in my sinuses but it is helping me breath more easily.

I coughed and spluttered my way around the old town of Riga today. The whole city is quite fascinating. There are an extraordinary number of …

We finally hit the archives!

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It was freezing today!! Not freezing by Latvian standards (it can get to minus 15 in winter) but frigging cold!!

Aleks collected me from the hotel at 10am and we caught the bus to the archives where the records we had ordered were waiting. It worries me that Latvia does not seem to have the funds to digitise their collection because some …

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