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Hello from Vancouver :D
Me and my causine will be traveling to Riga on May 2nd. As two successful business men we are looking forward to some time off and a good time. We are 20 and 26 from London (UK) and Vancouver (Canada).
We would appreciate it very much to get in touch with locals in Riga and find out what nightclubs/bars are to go to... Ive heard that Voodoo and Club Essentials are good hang out...
We would also love to get in touch with any tourists going at the same time who are also looking for a good time!
If you guys have any suggestions or inputs on where to go and what to do please dont hesitate to post!
C YA
try Lodo, it is national food, pretty good
http://www.lido.lv/lat/restorani/
Try the "FIRST" club, it's the hottest one right now. but there is only face control, no entrance fee. Or Studio 69 http://www.studio69.lv/ for another format.
Lounge8 www.lounge8.lv bar on the weekend evening is one of the best place for pre-party.
Essential is fine, but Voodo is full with sick-looked grandmother age women for a fee :)
Unfortunately I am off the Riga 30.04-18.05, but I would be glad to share about the topic - write me in email what your particular areas of interests are.
is these bars and clubs in old town?
Lounge is in the Old Town. The Essentail club is in very close vicinity, along the main street Brivibas iela passing freedom monument up to Reval Hotel Latvia ca.5 min walking . Studio 69 is further on on teh same street, appr. 3km away, i.e. 5 min. by taxi from reval Hotel Latvia = appr.3LVL(4.5 EUR) taxi trip.
First Club has been shut by authorities as they traded not only genuine alcohol barnds, but some *** in the same bootles too- few poeple get slightly poisoned... First time I here something like that about Riga clubs, hope the last one! Never ever had any bad alcohol in any club.
The highest point from where you can admire the panorama of Riga is the Television Tower (1 Zakusalas krastmala, tel. 710 86 43, 10.00 - 16.00, admission: 0.80Ls). In the Skyline Bar of the Reval Hotel Latvia (26th floor), 55 Elizabetes iela, 16.00 - 02.00, you can admire the view over the city in a comfortable way, enjoying your drink... On top of St. Peter’s church (19 Skarnu iela, tel. 722 94 26, ticket: 2 Ls) you can get a real good look at the Old Town rooftops.
Latvia is one of those countries which are having all 4 seasons.
It is very cold and windy in winter, hot - in summer time, enough rainy over autumn and spring.
So make sure what is the weather in here before plan your trip, so you would have all suitable clothes.
So, when visiting other courtries, is great to buy some souvenirs. So, I would like to describe three main in my opinion and what I bought. It is:
Very great soup with different smell and different influence to body - like with eucaliptus, with flowers and so on.
Beer. The most I liked Cesis beer. One another famous beer producer is Aldaris.
Laima chocolates and sweets. "Laima" company is very famous in Latvia and you can find some shops of choocolate things in old town.
The Bastion Hill or Bastejkalns is the small hill close to the Pilsetas Kanals in front of the Powder Tower. During the night this is full of youngters smoking and having fun with boy/girlfriends, drinking etc...
This ruins are the remains of one of the bastions of Riga fortifications.
Unfortunately trains in this part of the world aren't all that useful. For starters, Latvia uses a different size (Russian) guage to most other EU nations, meaning that the train must stop and change it's wheels at the Polish border.
Even connections to neighbouring countries using the same guage are not easy, for example travelling from Tallinn requires leaving at six in the morning, waiting in some tiny border town most of the day to change trains, and then finally arriving in Riga over 14 hours later. It takes just over four hours on the bus.
But trains to towns in Latvia are better served, and the connections with Russia and Lithuania aren't too bad, so it might be worth checking out if you prefer travelling by train to bus, like I do.
The main train station is quite central, just east of the old town.
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