Today’s agenda: road trip out of Riga and see not one, not two, but three medieval castles outside of a little town called Sigulda. We jumped on the train and away. The first castle was a short hike from the heart of bustling Sigulda. They haven’t spent much […]
It was a hodge-podge of a day…it felt a bit like a weekend in Nashville, except for the KGB bit. We started off by skipping breakfast and headed straight to the movies to see Godzilla. A couple of things about movie watching in Europe. 1) They have reserved […]
Today’s weather was spectacular, and we decided to trek to one of the oft-discussed beach resorts surrounding Riga. This area is known as Jūrmala, and is where the rich and famous of Latvia go to summer. While Latvia was a part of the Soviet Union, Jūrmala was a […]
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