Booking My Tour Riviera Travels are who I booked my first ever solo trip. These are my thoughts on booking and experiencing this. I normally book trips via my travel agent Sue at Holiday Please but this time I do not know why but I was just excited. That morning, my redundancy arrived and I just wanted to book a…
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The Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum is a short ride from Riga. An open air museum can be hit or miss. But I can recommend this to anyone. It is so interesting, but please wear sensible shoes, as you are walking around a wood. Spread across 213 acres of lush woodland are over 118 homesteads, churches and windmills from all…
Riga in Latvia is amazing. I was apprehensive about my visit here. Online, I had read that it was over run with stag groups but soon changed my mind. I am already looking to return. Since its founding in 1201 by German knights, Riga has be under Polish-Lithuanian monarchs, Swedish kings and Soviet commissars. After I flew in with my…
TRAVEL PLANS FOR 2018
This year's travel plans were going to be all about Europe. As we are continuing to overpay on our mortgage, but I now have redundancy this year too. And as I have asked for early release in June. I was successful, that I was released at the beginning of March. Meaning I can start travelling to some many amazing places. But…
WANDERLUST, BALTICS CAPITAL TOUR
This wanderlust post is about capital cities in the Baltics Area. Firstly we have Tallin, Estonia. What appeals to me - its walled, cobblestoned Old Town, Kiek in de Kök, a 15th-century defensive tower. It's Gothic Town Hall, built in the 13th century and with a 64m-high tower, sits in historic Tallinn’s main square. I just love cites filled with historic…