Kuldiga and Sabile (21 to 23 September 2022)

Kuldiga is a charming town in north eastern Latvia with a population of just 13,000.  Not many foreign tourists come here, but it’s popular with domestic tourists for a couple of curious, almost comedic, waterfall…

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Riga (16 to 21 September 2022)

The town of Riga was established in 1201 by a German bishop as a staging post for the crusade to Christianise the ‘northern heathens’ – the Balts, Slavs and Finnish peoples.  The bishop commissioned Riga…

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Cesis and Sigulda (14 to 16 September 2022)

From Tartu we caught the train to Cesis in Latvia.  Although there’s no longer any physical border between Estonia and Latvia, the trains don’t cross and the timetables don’t synchronise, so we had a few…

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