Vienna Airport

First stop on the cheap flight tour is Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹! Also first experience of EU travel post-Brexit. Did not enjoy the interrogation of how long I was staying in Austria and what I wasLäs mer
St. Stephen's Cathedral

First stop on the trip is St. Stephen's Cathedral, dating back to 1137, the cathedral is 137-meter tall, and is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna.
St Peterskirche

Next stop is the beautiful St Peterskirche just behind Stephensplatz. This was a hidden gem found completely by accident, but well worth the visit.
Café Central

Café central first opened in 1876 and became famous in the Vienna intellectual scene. Regular visitors included Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Stalin, Sigmund Freud, Lenin and now Josh and Greg.
Walking round Vienna (1)

Vienna city hall, Hofburg palace, museum quarter, Kunsthistorisches Museum! To name a few stops.
Walking round Vienna (2)

Vienna opera house and the Naschmarkt.
Schönbrunn Palace

Final stop was Schönbrunn Palace, work started in 1569, but passed to the monarch in mid 1700 as a gift to the then Empress of Austria Maria Theresa, then the palace had most of the major expansionLäs mer
Timbersports World Trophy, 2022

Well where do I start, during the day we passed the Vienna city hall and saw that there was a bit of a vibe going on centred around wood. Well after a good we found that there was a timbersports showLäs mer
Breakfast in Vienna!

First stop of the day is breakfast in central Vienna, before catching the U-Bahn to the airport and a flight to Latvia.
Vienna —> Riga

Flight to Riga with a surprise Niki Lauda plane.
Dinner: Folkklubs Ala Pagrabs

Dinner tonight is at Folkklubs Ala Pagrabs, a traditional Latvian restaurant complete with mountains of food, cheap beer (£1.80) and of course a live Portuguese band.
Riga Walking Tour & Old Town

Starting the day with a walking tour of the old town of Riga, the guide pointed out so many things that we would have otherwise missed, including the German history of the town- their questionableLäs mer
Art Nouveu & Embassy Quater

Next stop is the Art Nouveau, as natural Riga has the highest concentration of such designed buildings in the world. And the embassy quarter, unsurprisingly citizens have taken aim at Putin throughLäs mer
KGB Offices

KGB Offices, these building originally an apartment block became home to the KGB during the Soviet times in Latvia. The tour took from the entrance through to the secret doorway into the innerLäs mer
Stalin’s Empire State Building & Market

Finally two stops in Riga was the Soviet Empire State Building, and one of the largest markets in the world.
Tallin Bus Station 🇪🇪

One final stop on the tour Tallin, Estonia 🇪🇪
Tallinn Old Town

Morning walk around Tallinn old town… before the rain hit, and it flooded everywhere. We took sanctuary in the Le Coq. Little did we know we would be back in here many times.
KGB Tour continues

Well the rain had continued all day so we took decided to visit the KGB prison in Tallinn. Once again the government decided to transform this into a modern police prison after the soviets had left.Läs mer
More old town Tallinn

Lenin Palace of Culture and Sports

Now called Linnahall after Tallinn, this was built in the 1970’s by Lenin for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. It has been used for multiple things since, including being in the film Tenet. But itLäs mer
Morning walk and breakfast

Walk round the part of the old town we didn’t get to see yesterday due to the rain and then time for a quick brunch and then to the airport for the flight home.
Resenär😂