Hello Latvia! Hello Riga, the city of music, art nouveau, and hearty winter food. Yours is one of those artsy chique spirits that is the result of mixed heritage and merchant’s money. Poles, Swedes, Russians, Livonians, Lithuanians, and Germans all left a stroke each on your canvas. Sorry I missed most of it, but I will return soon. Perhaps when your trees are green and your beavers are playing in the river again.
(Riga, Latvia; January 2015)
This blue marble 
January 17, 2015 at 7:18 pm
I’ve always wanted to go to Riga – it looks amazing.
January 17, 2015 at 7:21 pm
It has the best art nouveau building collection in Europe, apparently. I had no idea until I visited… Now I want to go back!
January 17, 2015 at 7:27 pm
One of my colleagues is from there and every time he goes home for a visit, I think how much I want to go. It’s somewhere that you mention as a holiday destination and people go “really??” but I highly suspect it is under rated.
January 17, 2015 at 7:34 pm
Riga is a favorite long weekend destination for us Finns for the past 10 years or so. Also Tallinn (Estonia) and Vilnius (Lithuania) are enchanting cities, like from medieval storybooks.
January 19, 2015 at 12:45 pm
My partner has been to Tallinn and he loved it. It sounds great.