Travelling around Latvia :)

I am sitting in the Orange Bar in Old Riga. Really nice place. I am waiting for the bus to Vilnius to leave in some 1 hour and a half. Finally leaving as I was supposed to leave yesterday but I missed the bus :) Bad connections from the middle of nowhere to come back to Riga :).

But I had a very cool weekend...and adventurous I would say...
We went on a trip in the South East of Latvia, visiting mainly Jekabpils, Daugavpils and Rezekne. Latgale is the name of the region actually. The group was small, me and 4 guys :) Aurelien, Guilamme, Adrien and Patrick. It was so much fun :)....

In Jekabpils, we visited the city center :) of course, some small streets, the bank of Daugava and some church we found in the way. Then we had tea and coffee in a very cheap and also nice pub in the center of the "city" :). In the evening, we were hosted by Marine, a French volunteer. We were cooking and playing cards and having fun and it all ended up with sleeping ...on the floor :D as there were only 2 beds in the flat, where "owners" were sleeping. What was worst is that in the morning the Turkish volunteers came back from the disco making lots of noise..it was terrible...

So after not much sleep and a singing breakfast (listening to music from our origin countries - they liked Iris and Vama Veche :P)...we ran for the bus to Daugavpils. After we walked half of town and had many many snow fights and my shoes started getting wet :D, we managed to get in the crowded bus where I continued my reading of Dracula :D ... (I am enjoying the book so much... ).

In Daugavpils we had Ilona (LCP elect of Riga :D) as a guide. She showed us some main attractions from the city. It is the second biggest city in Latvia and mostly inhabited by Russians :D (around 80%). It is kind of nice :)...

Hasty decision took me to Rezekne afterwards, to some improvised party organised by Giovanni, Italian volunteer. We arrived there and we went into such a nice pub with all these things you sell for tourists, but traditional Latvian:). We spent around 3 hours there waiting for other people to come, but we enjoyed hot wine and the nice atmosphere...

When we finally gathered, we went to the hostel. And here the adventure started, as the guard did not want to let us in. When she finally let us in, she decided that we cannot sleep there and we have to go away at 11. So we went out to this nice place where we played bowling...my first time :D. And I was not that bad :D. I had so much fun!....

But we had to sleep somewhere so we decided that we are getting in the hostel on the window :D so we did, but at around 5 the guard woke up and came into the rooms and started yelling that we have to go out and she even called the police :D....That is why I said adventure :D. When she came with the police, of course that Angelika did not open the door, but yeah it was frightening :D...

Hope they will not have many problems now...

We were back in Riga after a long 5 hours trip and as the bus to Riga was too late for me to catch the bus to Vilnius at 18:45, I missed it :(...But I got some rest and some good sleep at least...


Now leaving for a week in Vilnius to meet Danny and Alisa and then from Friday I am a faci in Synergy :D for the OPS track. I will enjoy it a lot!

What I got out of this weekend was not only having fun and visiting places, but meeting new people and getting to know Latvia behind only Riga and people in Riga. I got to know and see small cities, how people act and how life is in these cities...I enjoyed it a lot!

Thanks my dear Auri :)

Till the next adventure, enjoy snowing spring!