Riga Part 3

Weather: Either constantly hot or constantly wet. The only real constant is a change between these two variables. The weather is so hard to predict that it can be a little painful. One night we had to shelter in the cinema in order to escape it. Money was also tight as we hadn't been to a bank. We saw Bruno, which was fine apart from the fact that the German bit had only Latvian and Russian subtitles.

Belle Epoque: Bad service, inappropriate music, Parisian theme, very cheap booze. Belle Epoque wins the best bar none bar award in Riga from us anyway.

National Park: On the last day we took a train to Sigulda. Sigulda is about an hour from Riga by train. It's nestled in a national park. It looked pretty posh when we arrived, a bit like traveling to KirkElla, but once we found the national parky bit it was gorgeous. However, the weather was very hot and this did make Helen a bit grumpy, this was also due to the fact that mosquitoes enjoy this kind of weather. Still, we persisted (as my many mosquito bites will testify) and saw some amazing scenery from big heights. After the scenery viewing, we made our way back down via a cable car which was pretty cool. Part of the exploration also involved a cave (which had some sort of legend/story behind it which is way too long winded and frankly boring to recite), this cave was a fairly generic cave, quite small and shady and generally cavey - but it had something unique...

I have recorded for all time, via the medium of film, the penny whistle musings of a crazy of Latvian man. is he paid for by the government? Was his hair really that white? Was his tunic made of pure crystal? Or was he simply imagined by an adoring cave visiting public?

I'll let you decide...