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Baltic Beach Philosophy
... Latvia is a land of many pleasant surprises.
Latvia has been particularly hard hit by the world financial crisis that began in 2008. Here, like elsewhere, part of the problem was overspeculation. We were not pleased to encounter several GE Money Banks advertising mortgages. Instead of paying taxes in the U.S., GE must have sent profits to places like Latvia to further please investors.
Another highlight of our day was a ...
Latvia
... or so was spent at the border as the vision of being stranded in the cold, watching the train whistle away along the moonlit tracks, kept bouncing around in my mind. The conversation with the man next to me was less also than comforting, as he kept mentioning jail and the corruption of the Russian police.
My first view of Latvia came as I was awakened at 7am with a nudge on the foot telling me to budge up. Outside a pale pink dawn ...
Really Unremarkable Riga...
... hostel, called 'Tiger Hostel’ in which every surface, bedspread, blanket, pillowcase etc. was covered with pictures of bears... Actually no, it was tigers, how could I forget that? Anyway, the Tiger Hostel was a quirky little place and very comfortable in our 7-bed dorm room. We met another Australian guy there although we didn’t chat much – didn’t even get to the name exchange part – and Andrew set out for his training run. ...
Riga - an architectural polyglot
... the Big Guild buildings.
As a complete contrast, next to the House of the Blackheads on the square is an ominous black block of a building with no windows. Today this is the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 1940 to 1995.
St Peters Church, Riga’s oldest church, was originally built in the late 12th century and is first mentioned in the annals in 1209. The present day church ...
Entering The East
... an old building with an amazing old staircase, no real reception, pub crawls seemed to spontaneously happen most evenings, there were communal meals, free internet, always people hanging out and often people passed out the next day on the sofas. It was a cool place and as such attracted cool people so there was always someone interesting to have natter with. Tallinn itself is very pretty, it has a large old town, large enough to get away from the crowds especially if you go for a ...
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