Another day, another country. Our first stop in Lithuania brought us to Klaipėda, the country’s third largest city. Summer has definitely arrived too, with temperatures pushing 30° every day during our stay. After a couple of days exploring the old town and relaxing on the beach, we decided to spend an afternoon cooling off in …
Picture the scene – Saturday night and we were both in the mood to find some good beers. After a few days spent in the craft deserts of Jurmala and Ventspils, we arrived in Liepāja with higher hopes. A quick look online showed we might well be in luck, with several places in the New …
A couple of weeks ago as we were leaving the Valmiermuiža brewery tour, our guide gave us a leaflet about the Riga Beer District. Neither Poppy nor I had heard of it before, which seemed a bit strange given the amount of research we’d both done before heading out here. Having read the leaflet and …
Our very first visit to Riga back in 2016 mainly involved sampling the bars of the Old Town – in fact, it was where Poppy discovered her love of “Medalus”, or Latvian honey beer. We arrived back to the city a month after we’d left for Estonia hoping to relive some of that first trip, …
Poppy and I aren’t exactly known for our love of hot weather, so we thought Latvia in May would be a safe option. How wrong we were. We arrived in Cēsis (average May temperature 17°C) to find the thermometer pushing 30°C even in the shade, hence the title of this blog post! Having had a …
We’d successfully navigated the Latvian railway system and arrived in the town of Valmiera, our first stop back in Latvia, with a plan. Ask the tourist information centre there and even they will tell you that the only reason many people visit the town is for a tour of the Valmiermuiža brewery. Not surprisingly, this …