Jelgava, Latvia

Walking in the woods of Tervete's National Park was pleasant, once I learnt to avoid the myriad swarms of biting ants, that only seemed to bite me and no-one else. We came to a hut in a field in the middle of seemingly nowhere. There was a lady inside the ...

A few miles south of Jelgava is Tervetes National Park. It is mostly evergreen forest, filled with pines, larches, horsetails and mushrooms. We parked in a carpark, next to a wooden ampitheatre stage with fallen logs for seating. I raided the local shop ...

... plans to go to Riga, but for the moment, we were heading to a smaller town to the south, called Jelgava. The stork is the national bird of Latvia. Back in Pisz, in the Polish lakelands, every other telegraph pole had a massive stork's nest on the top of ...

... on it by a black marker and moved out to town. Of course, there was another gorgeous day before me. Jelgava is the fourth biggest town of Latvia, and judging by what is said and written about it, one would assume that according to its significance it's ...