Tomo 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.

... hostel in the world on hostelbookers.com so it had a lot to live up to but it is very nice.<br><br>In the evening we went into a very colourful Latvian supermarket and Sarah, as she tends to do, managed to find all the best deals and we had our lunches and breakfasts for the next few weeks sorted for just over ten pounds. On the way back an old Latvian man approached us and very helpfully pointed us to where we needed to go and made lots of jokes - "you ...

... our lunch, and have dinner "in". To make it a bit more of a treat, we bought 2 little 20 ml bottles of Riga champagne - that's what we drank at the Nostalgija Restaurant last night. I also bought a quarter - what I thought was chicken, but it was too pink for that. Then we hobbled back to our hotel, up the couple of flights of stairs to our room, and watched a little BBC TV while we had our dinner. First consistently English channel we've had in a while, although ...

After having had rain every day of this trip we woke up to sunshine and blue skies for our last half a day in Riga. We bypassed the usual hotel breakfast buffet and went around the corner to "Brown Sugar", a lovely looking coffeeshop / café which was like stepping back in time. The furniture, music and food were clearly from a bygone era and, with the double-glazed windows ...

... walk up and down the platform and disappear and then appear from a totally different direction. They would split up, regroup, split up again.Occasionally they would ask people for cigarettes or money. It was like they were trying to avoid the police or security men but all the time I was there I saw neither. All I can say is be on your guard. I am sure they were up to something and I doubt it was only that day that they hanging around there.

... of it as Russian, but damn was it good! Fried eggs, hash browns, roasted peppers and zucchini and some kind of creamed spinach sauce. Went and did the walking tour which was more than worth the money! I was the only person and the girl was only a little older than me. So she showed me the sights, talked about the history, legends and memories of Soviet times. We even ended up going for coffee and sampling some of her favorite cakes. Next I headed back to the hostel to go to ...

... an enchanting place baosting a string of medieval castles and legendary caves. The village itself is not quite what we were expecting being mostly grey soulless buildings with very few shops but maybe that had something to do with the weather - dull and cold weather always make things seem so much less appealing. There were some castles but they weren't your typical imposing European ones decked out in all their glory. We stopped off first at the ruins of the ...

... the way back to the hostel. I realized that my standard of hygiene has dropped significantly. I could wear my underwear for 3 days without any problem (they were taken off at night, since I have a designated pair of sleep shorts). Today, I am still wearing the shirt that a bird pooped on (I'm thankful that it was my shirt, instead of my head, that it chose) from two days ago - I did let it air out for 24 hours yesterday.

... hablaba de lo bonitas que eran las rusas, creo que eso me quedo dando vueltas todos estos anos...parece ser que tenia razon...aunque tambien menciono que tenian problemas de higene...eso aun no lo he percibido...y espero no hacerlo!) Lo que llama mucho la atencion, es que esta ciudad parece sacada de la tipica pelicula gringa, en que van a europa oriental y esta lleno de mafiosos, tengo que reconocer que esto parece set de hollywood. He visto muchos mercedes ultimo ...

... a tous les coins de rue (ces barres chocolatees-caramalisees que de mon temps on appelait des Raiders-2 doigts coupe-faim). Alors je me suis dis pourquoi pas ? Achete mon ticket de bus pour Paris, rejoint la premiere auberge de jeunesse, reserve quatre nuits. Et sonne le glas de ma derniere etape avant le retour. Bon ben c'est pas le tout, mais il s'en est passe des choses depuis la derniere WKN. C'etait du cote de Shangai il me semble. Bon alors pour faire rapide : apres ...