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Baltic Beach Philosophy
... these tunes when they were popular as Radio Free Europe ignored the Baltic states. This region was brushed under the rug after the Atlantic Charter. The one year of occupation prior to WWII (here, not dubbed the “great patriotic war”) somehow exempted the region from “self determination.” What a shame.
On our final trip through Old Town, Jeannette stocked her medicine cabinet with Black Balzam. (Note: Lady ...
Latvia
... I looked so Russian that people would single me out in the crowd. Whilst I was walking with Marta people would stop and ask me something and not her, and whilst I was in a queue for the Kremlin people kept going up and down the line before asking me for help!
I think that a good traveller can merge into their surroundings and become another face in the hub of everyday life, and so I´m proud that I looked like one of the locals.
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Really Unremarkable Riga...
... the corner had we not paused to wait for the rain to die down...)
There’s not much else to report on Riga, as I said earlier – it definitely did not meet our expectations – except that some of the shots Andrew got of the wet cobble-stoned-streets were quite impressive. We ended up getting the bus out of there to Tallinn the next morning, hoping that Estonia would offer more of the Baltic flavour we were looking for than neighbouring ...
Marc's magical mystery tour
... to be the site of a famous folk tale - the story of Maija, the Turaida Rose, who met her death when she was stabbed by a jealous Polish Army deserter - the small cave is covered in carvings done in the 19th and early 20th centuryby itinerant artists who would wait in the cave entrance for commissions.
We managed to get to Valmiera just after 3pm. The town was pretty much flattened at the end of the war ...
Entering The East
... said hello in a cheery way and stared talking to him in English (I learned this trick in Canada, it's what you do with bears). Luckily it seemed to work, however I soon found out it had worked too well and we became travel buddies. Bruce decided to run along side me for about 5km, occasionally stopping to undertake small missions. He nearly killed a poor cat, tried to pick a fight with a horse and stopped approximately every 10 meters to pee on something. After a while we went past a ...
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- Swimming pool
- Restaurant
- Fitness/Health center
- Business Services
- Wheelchair accessibility