This small former Soviet Latvian republic (independent since 1990) has an old town area with many restaurants and cafes and there are museums with English translations. I took a river small boat cruise for 1.5 hours, which is a pleasant alternative way to see the old areas on a nice day. People are generally pleasant and many speak English (but a significant minority is of Russian descent and ...
Again with TJ Travel and another great guide. This tour included a trip to Jurmala, a beach resort area. Old town Riga was beautiful a great walk through the old streets ...
We had 2 days in Riga, the first we did some research and decided to self tour old town visiting the Museum of the Occupation (a sobering eye opening museum that does a fabulous job of showing Latvia's plight and fight from Communism) Latvian War Museum, the Black Cat Guild (Riga is the town of cats), Museum of the Blackheads (this has an excellent gift shop attached with good prices), Porcelain ...
In the port we went to an organic farm. It was run solely by a woman in her 70's, It was an amazing trip with her sampling her grown food and honey. Also, for the first time ever saw Storks. ...
Didn't know what to expect, but some cool parts of town and a great market within walking distance. We wanted a local experience, so we broke away from the tour group on this. ...
Ship was docked over 10km from old Riga. We took a ship sponsored city tour, it was terrible, so bad I complained to the excursions desk. The city itself was interesting but had a very different vibe than the other cities we visited on this cruise. ...