Day 10 Today was spent sightseeing in Riga with Phil and Sandy. We did all the tourist sights along with a couple beer stops! It started raining briefly around lunchtime so we went into a shoe shop which was arranged in rooms around a house which was brilliant to see how the house would have been furnished around the 1940's -1950's. A few of the monuments we visited were informative telling the story about the soviet and German occupation and the exterminati...

Day 9 Travelling from Tallinn to Riga was most interesting. Although again the scenery of arable farming and forests where similar to those in Scandinavia the buildings and machinery were quite different. We can tell that we are in former soviet countries by the Unitarian outlook to some of the buildings especially blocks of flats and some factories; however both Estonia and Latvia are changing and making their own mark and establishing their own identity. We ...