Day 513: Exploring Riga

The centre of Riga is a world heritage site, and we spent the entire day wandering around checking out various things. It's got some cool old buildings but the most interesting stuff is actually quite modern! The city had a boomtime in the late 19th century and a whole lot of art nouveau style buildings were constructed, most of which are still existing. Something like a third of all the historic buildings in Riga are art nouveau style which is pretty cool.

We spent the entire day wandering around and filming! Just had a cheap lunch of pastries since we'd had breakfast out and would likely have dinner out. Headed home for a little while to recover before heading back out for dinner where we had traditional Latvian style sausages. Moving on tomorrow, shame we only managed two nights in Latvia!

Interesting country, seems much more Russian influenced than Estonia did. I think a lot of Russians come here for cheap beach holidays from Moscow, since there's apparently good beaches not far out of town.Read more