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The bus to Riga is called a Euroliner and is very swish indeed - there are power points for every seat and an internet server on board, so you can connect your laptop (I don't have one) and email while travelling. It's always interesting, and a bit confusing when you get to a new city - and a little stressful if you arrive late at night and don'...

I probably should have written this earlier, but things have been completely crazy and updating this has been a last priority ( at least I'm finally getting to it now. After a very short two days in Berlin ( which was not enough time at all to see everything, but at least everything we saw was amazing) we flew to Riga. The same morning that we l...

Riga Ryanair have recently started a new route to Riga from East Midlands Airport and, as 'official testers' of new routes to Central,Eastern & Baltic Europe, we decided to go - in late November! Our experience has taught us that thermal undies, gloves, hats, scarves and generally the thickest clothing possible is not optional in these lands...

I have met the Captain Jack Sparrow of Latvia. He is actually a Brit via Australia via the Philippines, but I met him in Riga, so that's what we'll go with. I spent the day exploring Riga's old town with my dizzying friend and a couple of his buddies. Captain Jack, as we shall call him, had trouble walking in a straight line (whether drunk or so...

Moving on to the capital of Latvia, my first reaction is how different everything is from Vilnius. Many travel guides emphasize how dissimilar the Baltic capitals are from each other, but it isn't until you start hopping from country to country that you realize how much this rings true. And while I really dug Vilnius across the time I spent ther...

We're in Sigulda and I'm typing this with the TV on. It's a giant Latvian festival and I've just had to put up with the Latvian president making the huge audience chant, "Lat-vi-a" over and over until everyone bursts into ecstatic applause. She spoke for ever. Can't imagine John Howard trying this. There's lots of blonde girls in the choir and ...

I'm really glad I'm getting the chance to stay here for the 5 whole days. I don't like rushing through places, and I think 5 days will turn out to be a good amount of time spent in the city. It was another grey, bleak day today. The sky was completely overcast, not even a trace of a single cloud but a curtain of grey over the city. It didn't rai...

ITALIANO A FONDO PAGINA When we arrived in the morning in Riga from the overnight train from Petersburg and I saw the European flag waving on a station that looked much like that of Turnhout, I could not help help it but I started crying like a baby. It can also be because I was completely exhausted after a night with a snorring grandma and a co...

first thing I did when we arrived in Riga was walk into a pole. Haha! Riga is the best city to visit if you are in Europe with a small budget and a short amount of time. It was great and cheap and you can do so much in 3 days because its not a huge city. I'm not trying to promote it, I am just telling the facts! So we left Uppsala saturday morni...

got back to riga to meet jon. couldn't find him. he spoke russian at the university dorms and was told that there were no vacancies. when we showed up, we spoke german and got a room for $2. we ate dinner ate a cool krishna restaurant and got a bus the next morning for tallinn.