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Elizabetes St 21 Riga, Latvia, LV 1010, 67-031900
Met our new guide & driver after breakfast & set off in for Latvia
First stop at roadside attraction near border where emu was a star attraction
Then on to Rundale Palace - very enjoyable visit & coffee downstairs before we headed off again.
Unscheduled stop at nearby smaller palace as well.
Arrived Riga mid-afternoon at Centrum Hotel Monika - upgraded to a corner suite overloooking the park - very nice!
Walked across town to dinner, via nea...

... for its whiskey and the ever popular Guinness Beer. If you have not acquired the taste for either of these flavors, you can go for the Bailey’s Irish Cream. There is something special about drinking one of these tasty choices in the home country. Go to any of the unique Irish pubs and you will certainly find the drinks of this great country. Your next holiday will be really fun if you make your way to Dublin, Ireland.
Riga, Riga, Latvia victor.bacon... Street, which were certainly quite impressive.<br><br>Stopping into a popular cafeteria-style restaurant, we tried more dill-covered dishes (dill really seems to be the herb in this area of Europe!), but the real treat for us were the delicious strawberries and cream at the end, for which we went back for seconds!
Riga, Latvia fiseb... sea on December 5th. So I told her forget about cheap, just find me a way to Hurghada by Friday afternoon. She did try. I have to say, she tried very hard. The earliest she could get me there was about 2am on the morning of the 6th. Defeated, I left the airport and headed back to my hotel. I told the guy at the front desk who had checked me out my sob story and he looked like he could cry on my behalf. He was really nice and gave me a discount on the room. I ...
Riga, Latvia travelingdiva... else in it. You see how informed we are?! We had a bit of trouble getting out of Cesis - ended up going around the roundabout a couple of times before we found the route we wanted. Next place we drove to was Sigulda where we visited the Turaida Castle Reserve. Yet another (1214) castle, founded on the site of a former Livonian stronghold. The Livonians were the race who lived in this area before all the other countries invaded. We had to wait at the railway crossing ...
Riga, Latvia austega... the place where approximately 25 THOUSAND Jewish people were shot in the most horrific ways. The commander of the Nazis in this area designed what he considered was a more efficient way of carrying out this killing; rather than shooting the Jewish people as they stood at the mass graveside and allowing them to fall on top of the already dead and dying people, he lay them on top in an orderly, sardine-like manner and then shot them. This all took place ...
Riga, Latvia jmabro... hostel bcs some people didn't want have dinner, and all together to a pub ( if you go to Riga be careful, bcs there are a lot of places where are prostitutes, and some people told us that this places are dangerous). in the club that I got in there wasn't, so i decided be there all nights hehehe. Next day I was with Naiara, Thijs and some one more who I don't remember to have a walk in old part of Riga, was incredible too beatiful. We spend all day in Riga and we didn't have ...
Riga, Latvia raul... was planning his trip to Brazil as I was planning mine to Latvia), and a few other really nice people. We stayed in Rita's house until she went to sleep and we ran out of booze, then moved to a bar and then to another for some dancing. Of course I am not much into dancing, but even I can not resist it when they play "Always look on the bright side of life". And then there were the Latin songs, and it is written quite clearly in the ...
Riga, Latvia renard... how many centuries the spire would remain standing. So they all climbed back down to have a gander. They weren't happy with what they found. The glass had only broken into two pieces. By chance, it had landed in a pile of hay. "So did the spire fall down?" asked Jodie. "Yeah, nearly two centuries later during the Second World War. It was hit by a bomb and collapsed in flames! Unbelievable!" Ten minutes later we were entered a large building that we took to be some sort of ...
Riga, Latvia cessna152... Ekaterinburg Bref, de quoi faire des gueuletons de folie pendant les 3 jours de train jusqu'a l'etape suivante. Nous ne sommes que tous les trois dans le compartiment, bientot rejoints par Amanda (canadienne rencontree entre Beijing et Ulaan Bator) qui fonce direct vers Moscou. Amanda voyage avec trois russes, dont l'un la demande en mariage alors qu'un autre fonce a pas force vers le coma ethylique (mais ne serait-ce pas la meme chose au fond ?) et que le dernier, tout ...
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