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Gauja Valley: Sigulda, Krimulda, Turaida

A travel blog entry by bttnhg

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... next to Krimulda where we could find the remains to Krimulda Castle and access to Krimulda Palace which is now a sanatorium. Although it is supposed to be closed to visitors we wandered around the gardens without a problem. From the remains of Krimulda Castle we followed a path downhill that led us into beautiful views of the valley and Turaida Castle that we were about to visit. After deciding which way to go, we followed ...

Sigulda, August 20, 2005 - Saturday

A travel blog entry by the_wayfarer

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... Lutheran. Sigulda Church, as it is usually called, was by no means a newcomer there. A few sources I had on my disposal hardly agreed on the time of its first construction, but they all agreed that it had been restored towards the end of the seventeen and beginning of the eighteen century. And they all seemed to be in agreement that, contrary to destinies of most of other churches during Soviet times, this was one of the very few for which it could be said that ...

Cesis, August 19, 2005 - Friday

A travel blog entry by the_wayfarer

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... something else that I had not seen earlier. It was the Victory Monument on Vienîbas laukums or Union Square. The monument was first built in 1924 to commemorate the soldiers who fell in the Latvian War of Liberation, as one of the first monuments to those of the Latvian freedom battles. Then the Soviets in one of their more cheerful moments happily blew it up in 1951. After they had left, in the 1990s, the monument was restored, and then unveiled for a second ...

At the Schultz's

A travel blog entry by victorkubik

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... work at one time. It is very easy talking to both the Schultz's and we admire them for their courage in making some of the decisions they have. It's not been easy and the entire town is talking about the Baptist minister who has gone to keeping the Sabbath. We decided that we would try to make it to Tartu by tomorrow night so that we can get a good start on a lot of work that has to be finished before the weekend in ...

Crossing the border

A travel blog entry by amullett

... 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 ...

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