Toss Riga
Kengaraga 6 Riga, LV1063, Latvia
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Riga's Black Magic
... toast and eggs, sausages and other traditional breakfast foods. At one of these corner areas I discovered the most amazing potato pancakes I have ever experienced in my life, I bought a small plate and sat at a table and watched the crowds go by as I took in this overwhelming sensual delight.
Now, after spending my entire morning in the main market, which is said to be the largest in Europe (and I believe it,) I began to make my way back to my room again but using ...
Cowsheds and Communists
... cap' along with some grey jeans and a dark t shirt. With ten days of beard growth I looked quite convincingly like I may have just arrived on a barge; "a kind of alcoholic French sailor" in Jack's words.
We weren't sure what to expect from this market, our guide had earlier joked that if we had anything stolen then this was where we could buy it back; a fairly ominous description. Entering nervously through the white barred gates the ...
Riga in the Sun
... ten minutes of making our farewells to Milda, we were in the heart of buildings that are decorated in the German Art Deco Style (see photos) and very fine they were too.
Tour of Riga over, we headed back to the boat, taking in a supermarket to spend all of our change as we were leaving friendly Latvia in the morning. At the marina, we were surprised to hear some young men speaking English. They were on a stag weekend! They ...
Entering The East
... are gravel, others are newly surfaced cycling super highways through pristine country side..... others are mud tracks which have been used my forestry workers who have driven a bulldozer down them creating continuous ruts and foot deep muddy holes (see picture). The condition of the so called roads was crazy, it is lucky I love mountain biking and have decent tires on my bike or I would have been stranded (even then I nearly came off on a number of occasions) however there weren't the ...
Dag 14
... Ze doen dus blijkbaar niet al te veel moeite om het voor de toerist het wat makkelijker te maken.
Na de auto veilig en wel achter te laten, lopen we in de richting van een parkje, op zoek naar een kaart van de stad, om zo verder te kunnen. De kiosk met toeristen-info hebben we nooit gevonden. Mensen spreken hier geen Engels, en doen weinig moeite om ons te helpen. We moeten dus maar op onze instincten af gaan; op zoek naar een mooi stukje Riga. Al vrij snel komen ...



