Saturday, August 23, 2008

In Riga, Latvia

We walked around Vilnius' old town some more this morning, including a self declared breakaway republic across a stream, then went back to the bus station and took a bus to Riga. We arrived here over an hour early. The driver kept passing trucks and forcing oncoming cars off the lane while doing it. The weather got cooler and turned to rain along the way. After arriving in Riga the first thing we did was get some tickets for tomorrow to Tallin, but most of the routes were sold out and we ended up getting a bus that leaves at 8am, so we won't have as much time here in Riga. We walked around the old town a bit before it got dark but we were constantly bugged by beggars everywhere we turned. If I get up early and the rain has stopped, I might try to head back for a bit early in the morning.

(PS - The keyboard I'm using at the moment also has Cyrillic (Russian) letters on it.)

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