Latvia: A day of let downs

We left Riga and embarked on what was to be our 7th day out of 7 weeks of no rain of the trip! (Incidentally, as I'm writing this a few days after, I can safely say we've now managed to put the umbrellas away for a week! The weather really has improved as we've gone further south). But that ended up being one of the only good things of this day. We decided to go more 'off the beaten track' and head into the Latvian countryside to see what that had to offer as for now we'd been sticking to the capital cities. Well, it seemed all the Latvian countryside had to serve us was what Brussel sprouts are to an 8 year old kid! We wanted to go to a bread museum, but they closed their door to us as we hadn't booked in advance (even though I had emailed them in advance to which they never replied). We went onto plan B which was to see an open air farm museum showing off buildings of what farmers typically had in the Latvian 1800s. Sadly they only accepted cash which we didn't have, so another door was unceremoniously closed in our faces. Thus we turned to plan C which was to go see the Catholic Basilica in the town Aglona. This apparently was the founding church of Catholicism and thus Christianity in Latvia, so it did hold some importance. The church was actually quite impressive and ended up being worth the visit. It was then onto our accommodation which was a bit of a train wreck in itself! The place had a sauna, but no kitchen facilities or shower/bath facilities! I think the thought of having a sauna, not having a place to shower and climbing straight into bed gave Emma the heebie-jeebies!😂 Thankfully we had cooking equipment, so supper wasn't a problem, but it was a no shower kind of night. Plus the place was plagued by mozzies and the room freezing 🥶. Definitely in our bottom 3 places of accommodation for the trip! Czytaj więcej