Hotel Vilhelmine Liepaja

8:30 AM bus leaving from the station right outside the hostel. Very convenient. My back is still in pain but I manage my huge pack OK. Raining day so not a beach day when I arrive at 10:30. As the bus passes the border from Lithuania to Latvia, the roads become much rougher.

I stay at Travellers' Hostel, a 5 minute walk from t...

North up the coast we crossed the border into Latvia. A couple of km over the border we found this old woman's house by the sea, who is an obsessive compulsive beachcomber. Everything in the garden and adorning the house has been washed up on the beach, which she has then made into statues or just decoration (couple of photos above). She makes a...

Hello, I arrive in Latvia 4 days ago. Many things happen since, Where to start i don't know. I've met already lots of people since then. This city Liepaja is the Latvian's rock city,place where in the hard rock cafe or (rock cafe) you have the most famous Latvians singers performing on a small stage and almost nobody give attention ( cause they ...

In addition to the headache continuing, an earache has started. What's going on??? Perhaps it was Mary "accidentally" elbowing me in the head last night as we slept? Off to Liepaja. The bus stopped in a little town to pick up some more people. It looked like some kind of county fair was taking place, but none of the rides were active. There was ...

Day 14 Leipeja, Leipeja is only slightly less hideous in daylight and after an hour I have seen everything that counts for a sight in the center of town. The only thing of real note was a display of local dancing which was part of a children´s event to mark the first day of school. However this is not my main objective for the day which is to he...

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...

Got to the bus station fairly early expecting that we might have some problems trying to book 4 student tickets on a bus to another country, however the woman who dealt with us this time was more than helpful and even though she didn't speak any English we managed to get the ticket and with a student discount in minutes. The coach arrived and we...

if you want any of the photographs in a higher resolution, just let me know abasty@gmail.com more information about Liepaja Liepaja, the Liepaja at Wikipedia Liepaja, official Liepaja website diary entry Schon die ganze Welt bereist ich hab' Vom Abend- zum Morgenland Vom Süd- zum Nordkapp Doch nirgendwo fand ich einen Ort wie an diesem Strand Ic...

I just needed to get out of there. Petersburg is a wonderful city. People are beautiful. Nevertheless, I find my surroundings quite disturbing. Where I live, the heating does not work properly. All day long pestering music is roaring from loudspeakers on the other side of the street. The bed consists of a wooden board put on top of a rack. Tempe...