Prieka Pietura
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Sigulda, paradiso per l`outdoor
... Dalla sua massiccia torre di guardia si gode di una meravigliosa vista su tutta la vallata e sul fiume.
Lungo la strada del ritorno ho camminato e chiacchierato con due bellissime ragazze del posto, bionde come la media nazionale e che si sono quasi sciolte quando hanno sentito nominare l' Italia...e' incredibile quanto la nostra povera e bistrattata nazione sia amata incondizionatamente all'estero.
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Picture Postcard perfect...
... protests of Nein sprecken zee deutch, specken zee Inglish??) - in the end she took me up to the steeple (!!) no doubt giving me a complete history of it's restoration on the way !!
I took a wrong turn and walked down to the river (under the cablecar) and had to walk back up a mountain bike track to the cable station. Across the river into another town which has a stately ...
Sigulda, August 20, 2005 - Saturday
... road that occasionally narrowed down to just a path through the forest. And all along the river. So I got started. Of course, there were other people who had similar ideas as me. It wasn't like I was left all alone with nature. There were other hikers through the woods. Once or twice I even saw Latvians who, in spots where possible, got with their cars all the way down to the river and then there was picnicking, complete with loud music from the cars with doors open. ...
Crossing the border
... delight, the bus we went on was some sort of luxury bus that I'm sure wasn't usually used for such mundane travel. Instead of having four seats across, it only had three and these were plush and clad with soft leather. The roof where I was sitting was made of glass and there was a good sound system. A very comfortable journey indeed! I got to Riga at about 8pm and stepped off the bus in the ever-present wind which comes from the Baltic sea. It was cold, but my hostel where I was going ...
Sigulda in Tales and Legends
After a one hour bus ride from Riga through the fog and snow(!), we arrived in Sigulda. Once off the bus we had a dodgy little map but felt comfortable we could find our place of stay for the night - a B&B. We headed along the road past the impressive Sigulda Bobsled Run, and to a junction, where we began to think "what the hell?". We headed down some old dirt roads that were really muddy hoping we had the right address and that the B&B ...