Rolava Liepaja

... could get rid of my cold.

I go to 3 of the bars listed in my guide. Totally dead so I head back to the hostel to work on my blog photos..For $4 more, I chose a 4 bed room which had no other people in it at that time (rather than the 12 bed room that had a few). Worked perfectly. Another solo room but with the benefits of being able to socialize in the hostel. This is the 3rd time that the strategy worked.

... them is a bit like slalom skiing, but it's the best way to see the native forest, the deserted beaches, and the out of the way places. Latvians, like their southern cousins, are right in to their natural assets, and walking, hiking, mushrooming etc is one of their big loves. So it was on to more great forests and walks for us as we made our way to the energetic, buzzing capital of Riga.

... tomorrow we going to Lithuania for the day. I wish you all the best, sorry for the mistake on the writting I don't have time to read it again, i'm already late (what new!) Take it easy and talk to you soon. PEACE and LOVE Nico ps: I forgot to tell you about Reigo, (estonian friend I met in Portugel) I will meet him in Tallinn next week, 3 years i didn't met him. If you want to get to know him, go to www.grenius.com www.grenius.com I really recomand it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... as far off the beaten path as I have been. I could definitely see this place turning into a major tourist destination in a few years. Pat and Mary Asian Circus-Sideshow Freak in the Baltics Moment #10: Some locals stared at us as we walked by and made some kind of "freak" comment in Latvian. At least, that's what we guessed. I drank a litre of juice and took a nap. Despite telling Mary that I was ...

... With little light itś only when I reemerge that I find the wall to have been brightly colored and again in places riddled with bullet holes. In one photo a white mist appears in the shot, a ghost? i doubt it, but adds to the whole spooky feel of the place. Having spent 4 hours walking about I have no time for the prison but am not too bothered. Get back to the hostel and realise that the only remaining guests from the previous night are me and a ...

Our short stay in Liepaja just wasn't long enough. Our hostel was about 2 blocks away from the beach and it bloody rained. That didn't stop us from going to the beach though. We went out one night with some people from the hostel, but mainly just chilled out playing air hockey, wathing DVD's and drinking.

Not yet having had enough of beaches, but not wanting to extract any more cash, I moved on from Klaipeda up to Liepaja, about 100km up the coast, in search of the Latvian equivalent and (from what I had heard) a rather fantastic hostel. I was a little disappointed. The hostel I had been intending to stay at was closed for renovation, so ended up in a nice enough, but fairly anonymous place ...

... dinner we went to a local supermarket, deep in the bowels of what looked to be a war torn Latvian housing estate, and picked up some bits and bobs. After dinner we had a few rounds of cards before retiring to our comfy beds. However, Paul and I didn't realise that the bed split into two and it was only the top cover that was a double. Otherwise we wouldn't have spent the night worrying about staying as far away from each other in the night...

... for two days. there we found our peace of mind. we didn't do much. we didn't talk much. each of us was floating in his own mind, in his own thoughts. nevertheless we felt very comfortable with each other. old friends. in German there is a saying that an old friend is like an old pair of shoes ...

... time or you will become sick. At least I will. I am sick at this point. Visiting Petersburg as a tourist in summer must be an entirely different expercience. In daily life you have to fight a lot. Fight with the authorities, fight with the teachers, fight with the administration. There is always some superfluous rule that needs to be obeyed. You can ask an administrator for half an hour why something is being done a ...