We found some nifty street art in all the Baltic states. Although in Helsinki we only found a panda. Related Images:
Archive for category ‘Latvia’
20 September 2018
Baltic beauty
Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Photos
Four countries in two weeks. These are our best snaps from Finland (Helsinki), Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania… Related Images:
17 September 2018
Flat Baltic
5 September 2018 In the fifteenth century, at the height of its power, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania held the largest territory in Europe. For a couple of hundred years this little country was one of the big players on the European stage. That’s good going. Our first couple of hours driving through the north » » »
17 September 2018
Rural Latvia
4 September 2018 So we have a speeding ticket. Well, our car rental guy did warn us about the cameras. But I’m at a loss as to how to avoid a ticket, when the signs coming in and out of villages and towns are so… absent. I’ve spent the day trying to very carefully obey » » »
17 September 2018
Art Nouveau
3 September Let me show you the Party Bike. This is a nonsensical thing. Basically, up to ten people sit around a bar on wheels and provide pedal power to move it. The driver steers it. Everyone drinks lots of alcohol. There are special holes cut in the bar to put your drink in so » » »
17 September 2018
Sigulda to Riga
2 September 2018 So of course we visited Sigulda on the day of a massive nationwide cycling event to be held in the little town. Which meant that after visiting the castle and Krimulda, it then took fifteen minutes to get out of the car park as the whole race cycled past, and then we » » »
17 September 2018
Canoedeling
1 September 2018 Today we had a lovely day in Gauja National Park. We started mega-early, before breakfast, with a walk at 7am. Over the hill beyond the apple orchard there’s a wood-cloaked valley where the Amata River flows, and there’s a good trail right along its length. So we tramped through sunny woodlands with » » »
17 September 2018
Neither here nor there
31 August 2018 A stroll around Tartu in the morning confirmed my hunch: that it is perfectly amiable but not very interesting. So we drove on south, heading for our second Baltic state, Latvia. We stopped along the way in a couple of little towns and villages mentioned in our Lonely Planet, but there really » » »