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May 27, 2022
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Vienna Airport
May 27, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
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 was doing here 😂Read more
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St. Stephen's Cathedral
May 28, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
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.
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St Peterskirche
May 28, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Next stop is the beautiful St Peterskirche just behind Stephensplatz. This was a hidden gem found completely by accident, but well worth the visit.
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Café Central
May 28, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
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.
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Walking round Vienna (1)
May 28, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Vienna city hall, Hofburg palace, museum quarter, Kunsthistorisches Museum! To name a few stops.
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Walking round Vienna (2)
May 28, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Vienna opera house and the Naschmarkt.
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Schönbrunn Palace
May 28, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
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 expansion was during the reign of Franz Joseph, the longest Austrian monarch.Read more
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Timbersports World Trophy, 2022
May 28, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
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 show on at 18hr that evening.

We travelled back got free entry and got bang central seats for what was actually the timbersports final for 2022 😂. The final had it all, warming saws, lads on timber, illegal moves, disqualifications, flags, oh and a streaker!Read more
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Breakfast in Vienna!
May 29, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
First stop of the day is breakfast in central Vienna, before catching the U-Bahn to the airport and a flight to Latvia.
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Vienna —> Riga
May 29, 2022 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Flight to Riga with a surprise Niki Lauda plane.
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Dinner: Folkklubs Ala Pagrabs
May 29, 2022 in Latvia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
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.
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Riga Walking Tour & Old Town
May 30, 2022 in Latvia ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
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 questionable mash of German, Swedish, Latvian and Russian architecture. And of course the beer culture.Read more
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Art Nouveu & Embassy Quater
May 30, 2022 in Latvia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
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 through the use of huge posters overlooking the Russian embassy.Read more
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KGB Offices
May 30, 2022 in Latvia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
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 inner workings of the KGB. For many the doorway into the office was a one way door as many did not leave. First stop was the registration room, then one of the many interrogation rooms (complete with on way mirror for people to watch), then it was to the underground cells, exercise room, kitchens, offices and finally the execution room, were over 180 people were killed. Though there are papers to support the amount killed here, much of this was estimated via the number of bullets pulled out of the wall- this is shown by the coloured stickers.Read more
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Stalin’s Empire State Building & Market
May 30, 2022 in Latvia ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Finally two stops in Riga was the Soviet Empire State Building, and one of the largest markets in the world.
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Tallin Bus Station 🇪🇪
May 30, 2022 in Estonia ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
One final stop on the tour Tallin, Estonia 🇪🇪
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Tallinn Old Town
May 31, 2022 in Estonia ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
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.
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KGB Tour continues
May 31, 2022 in Estonia ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
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. Not exactly filling confidence in the population.

But it was interesting to learn about all the reasons people were arrested and kept in the prison, or sent to Siberia and other prisons in Russia.Read more
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More old town Tallinn
May 31, 2022 in Estonia ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
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Lenin Palace of Culture and Sports
May 31, 2022 in Estonia ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
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 it is largely abandoned.Read more
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Morning walk and breakfast
June 1, 2022 in Estonia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
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.
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Trip end
June 1, 2022