Swedish Adventure

After a little delay of one hour on the flight, we landed successfully in the capital of Latvia at Saturday afternoon. It was kind of bothersome, because we paid soooo much for the flight (€ 18,- for both ways thanks to Ryanair), but we are not unforgiving. Thus our trip started with a free beer in the bar of FriendlyFunFranks Backpackers Hostel, located directly in the old town on the waterfront of Daugava River. Really nice Hostel, friendly staff, always helpful tips and party-excursions every night.

After a loud night Martina and me started the exploration of the old town, which is really beautiful. There are a lot of old classy mansions and churches, but also a lot of derelict ruins and horrible houses. Unfortunately the most obvious thing about Riga was that people in general (with exceptions - of course) are very unfriendly. If you need help on the street, you should be prepared to ask many people to get a real answer.

Monday was my favorite day. We made an excursion to Livu Akvapark a huge waterpark outside of Riga with a lot of slides, saunas, jacuzzis, etc. That was real fun and we all felt great after it. In the evening we went to an Irish pub, where Caspar (one guy from the hostel) arranged a Curry-All-you-can-eat-dinner for everybody who wanted to join, with a lot of (very very very very) spicy curry and a lot of cheap beer (a liter with get-2-buy-1-coupons for 1,65 Lats - that is about 2€).

On Tuesday we spent the forenoon in a great shopping mall outside of Riga (Spice) and flown back to Stockholm in the afternoon.

It was a (veeeeeeeeeeery) funny, interesting but exhausting trip... and now I need some sleep


Watch my pics and also Dave's pics and Martina's pics