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 holiday. And…
Radisson Blu Hotel Lietuva is where I was booked to stay when our tour group arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania. This hotel is big and set in the business district. Now this is where I am getting picky. It is more than adequate but is a good twenty/thirty minuites for me to get to the main streets and tourist sites. But…
Lithuania, was somewhere where I had wanted to visit for some time. The first sights in Lithuania, we came across was one of Lithuania’s most awe-inspiring sights, the Hill of Crosses. Here on an unassuming hillock, thousands of crosses seem to sprout from the earth, interspersed by poignant statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and effigies left…
Avalon Hotel was where I stayed when I was in Riga, Latvia. I did not book this hotel as I was on a tour organised by Rivera Travels for Solo travellers. Avalon Hotel is a mere thirty minute drive from the airport. When our group arrived, only some of the rooms were ready. We did arrive at about 1pm, check…
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…
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