Reval Hotel Elizabete Riga

... 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.

... they don't have the towers open - at least not in the ones I tried - and I think they are really missing out on a money maker there. I paid 2 lats to go in the Dome Cathedral which I saw had a huge tower and seemed worth the price. But I got in and looked around and then tried to find the tower stairs and couldn't. When I asked they told me it is out of bounds. Very disappointing. The view from the top must be ...

... Rīga. I asked him how life had changed in the Baltic states compared to the Soviet Union time. "Some things are better than before. Some are not that good." "For instance?" "Well, let's say, it's good that people can travel and have general freedoms. They can also buy what they want. If they have money. But there is no security any more. People used to not be afraid of old age and of what awaited them after they retire. It's not like that any more. My parents have just over one ...

... to ones a couple of metres high. There is a stall selling them if you want to place your own. We got saturated walking to the place from the car park but it was an amazing sight. John Paul II visited here in 1993. Riga is a great city. The Old Town is again partly reconstructed but as there was no bombing here during the war there are still many original buildings, especially from the 19th century. They are not restricted just to the ...

... developed city which was going to take a certain amount of physical energy to trek across in the short space of time I spent there. As the architectural delights of the city proper unfolded, I began to realize just why places of Riga's calibre are descended upon by those in the know, who are equally keen to absorb the sheer scale of the city's urban beauty. The Art Nouveau district is a joy to behold, and ...

... of snacks with my beer. Here is a sample of the menu: - Special offer to beer. Gentle minced meat house sausage length in 1 metre prepared under ancient recipe. - Abundance of meat snack for man company. - Seagifts allsorts for the company. - Allsorts from best cheeses recommended by us to wine. Served with walnuts and cheese balls in coconut crumbs. - Unpeeled prawns unpeeled fried with thrashed pepper and lime. I end up eating sweet-sour bread fried in ...

... I wouldnt need to go to Riga to catch a flight to Spain... I could hitch-hike there. Anyhow we also had a lots of fun with correcting her english (whom... ehmm still need improvment). Anyway, she is funny ! She was also about to fly to Istanbul for the week end. So the evening ended up after the discussion by a tram ride back home... probably late. -------------- December 15 I was sick... so nothing during the day. I cant even remember if I did something during the night ...

My last day in Moscow was pretty much spent wandering around the city. So one interesting thing that I forgot to mention is that Lenin's mausoleum is in Red Square. After he died in the early 1920s, Stalin ordered some scientist to find a way to preserve his body; interestingly enough he also ordered them to remove Lenin's brain to see if they could find a way to recreate the great communist mastermind. Anyways, they did eventually ...

... very friendly and welcoming, but noticeably more in a bubbly outgoing kind of way, Anyway, enough of the mass generalisations! POST-RIGA Since Riga we have made our way down the Latvian and Lithuania coasts and eventually back down the east of Poland. On the way we have stopped by the Curconian Spit NP in Lithuania, complete with a 'start of summer' town party, a Soviet park in Lithuania hosting statues from Soviet times (Lenin, Stalin busts etc), the Polish ...

... where that bullet is now, but I know one thing - that bullet and my target never met. So as we all went through and sprayed bullets towards the targets, a relaxation came across the group and as confidence grew a competitive nature grew on target scores. From a pistol to a riffle and then onto the machine guns, the adrenaline was pumping. The adrenaline was in our minds and our bodies and upon our return, instead of returning to bed for a couple of hours of missed ...