Park Hotel Ridzene Riga
Reimersa Street 1 Riga, LV-1050, Latvia
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Riga's Black Magic
Well, today was to be my last day in Riga and I had booked a very special tour that I stumbled across by accident called: "I'm local in Riga." The tour was meant to be a personalized tour of Riga from the point of view of a local and was to be tailored according to the interests of the visitor, in fact, I had filled out a questionnaire the previous day in which I described my interests.
I had found the tour quite by chance, but was completely excited to see the ...
Cowsheds and Communists
... the cities (relatively) expensive old town which she disregarded as tourist hoax, the majority of it having been destroyed and rebuilt in the Second World War. In the war Riga was an important strategic foothold, primarily due to the many advantages of its harbour location, and was occupied three times - firstly by the Soviets in 1939, secondly by the Nazi's in 1941 and then again by the Soviets after the conflict. Perhaps the greatest ...
Riga in the Sun
... Yesterday it was closed for some function or other but today we were able to go in to see the exhibits – given all the museums we have visited in the last 2 years, this wasn’t great so I won’t devote any more time here, apart from answering the question, who were the Blackheads? The Blackheads was characteristically a common union of young, unmarried merchants and ship captains in the Hansa cities, which chose St. Maurice ...
Entering The East
... not let your preconceptions put you off visiting.
Taking in Tallinn (Estonia)
Tallinn was great, for a start I stayed in the first proper backpackers of my trip. By proper I mean more akin to those you find in other parts of the world. Most hostels in Europe are clean, modern, expensive, very well organised and....well boring. Backpackers have a vibe they are cool places to hang out and meet people, normally they are not the cleanest, or well laid out, they are ...
Latvia?!?
... Most shop owners tended to know some English. I still have no idea what the currency exchange is, so I don’t really even have a concept of whether things here are expensive or cheap. I have a feeling that prices were comparable to the rest of Europe. Their currency is the Lat, and I ended up with 20 Lat, which didn’t last long at all. I have just a little bit of chance left over ...



