After two and a half days in Riga, it was time to move to a new location and new country - Lithuania. Artjoms had to go to work early again, so we left with him towards the city centre, he dropped us off and we said our farewells. Artjoms was a top guy who really added something to our experience in Riga, I hope he will come and visit us in Galicia because he was in the process of planning a bike trip to Portugal. Our bus was not leaving for another few hours, s...

Today we woke up early as Artjoms had to go to work, however before he did he dropped us off at the Latvian Ethnographic Museum, a few kilometres out of the centre. We thought it opened at 9am, but unfortunately we had to wait another hour before we could enter. Mari was a total zombie though, so at least it gave her the opportunity to catch up on some sleep courtesy of a nearby bench. The ethnographic museum was a large park made to showcase the traditional Lat...

After a fairly average sleep in our crowded room, we were ready to get out of the hostel and into the city. We had heard about a nearby market, so we thought it might be a decent place to get some breakfast. Well, turns out we thought right. This was definitely one of the nicest markets I had been to in a long time. The range of food was seriously impressive, including lots of local stuff we'd never heard of and even an Uzbek bread shop. We went around trying lit...