Riga was surprisingly a great place to visit, and will feature among the highlights of this trip, particularly as our expectations were low. It was lucky that we were there during there big mid-summer festival, as there was a lot more happening due to this. It is interesting to think that but for Patrick’s wedding, I doubt that we ever would have visited Riga.
The Old Town area was a nice place to wonder around with very old architecture. We were constantly bumping into people we knew wandering around these parts. The streets were on the whole very quiet. The people of Riga do not smile and for the most part speak very little English. One thing that stood out about the people of Riga was how many beautiful women there were (a substantially larger proportion than anywhere else we have been in the world), and to add to this, they were almost exclusively accompanied by ugly ass guys.
Walking the streets at night felt reasonably safe, however, definitely not as safe as home or as safe as we felt in Hong Kong. Would always recommend walking in groups at night. There were some beggars, but not heaps.
Some of the dreary buildings and the stern faces of the Latvian people could get you really depressed after a while (would imagine this would be particularly so in Winter), and while it was a fabulous place to visit, it would not be a place I would like to live. One other more important reason why it would be absolutely impossible to live here is that most (if not all) restaurants do not sell wine! What is going on?
On the whole, things were fairly similar priced to back home. Although the prices looked cheap as a New Zealand dollar was only worth 0.32 Lats.
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