Kuna hotell asus bussijaamast/vanalinnast 2km kaugusel, siis kahe päeva jooksul sai päris korralik tee maha kõnnitud. Kui vaid viitsiks Tallinna kesklinnas ka igale poole jalgsi minna :D
Riias olen käinud nüüdseks kokku 3-4 korda, viimati umbes 14 aastat tagasi. Olgem ausad, palju detaile enam meeles pole (toona olid peamised tegevused Läti lattide põletamine suveniirikioskites, ujumiskeskus, loomaaed ja tsirkus) ja seda suurem oli mu jaoks üllatus/taasavastus kui ilus Riia on. Absoluutselt iga hoone juures on midagi põnevat. Ja ainuüksi keskturul võiksin veeta mitu head päeva.
Peamised tähelepanekud riialastest: neile meeldivad jalgrattad ja neile meeldib autodega sõites väga palju signaalitada. Neile ei meeldi suvalised vihmavarjud, iga vihmavari, mida ma nägin (ja ma nägin neid palju), oli suur ja tugev. Lätlased on väga uhked Laima üle, Kaleviga vendlust ei ole :( Kui ka silmasin kuskil Kalevi šokolaadi, siis alati alumisel riiulil ja ainult ühte sorti. Samas meie poodides on Laimat palju.
Tänu hotellis olnud teleka kõige huvitavamale kanalile - läti šlaager - kõlab nüüd kõrvus Armands Dudeks - Kāpēc Tu vēl klusē? (Bīriņi 2014) (ja just see konkreetne esitus).
//
A great weekend in Riga. It was a sunny Saturday until the evening and on Sunday it was almost like winter again, cold and rainy. We spent about 5 hours outside/in shopping centres and that made our clothes soaking wet (nothing else to do, check out was early). Estonia greeted us with a surprise as well - there was a decent amount of snow on the ground. Which is just, ugh. It's spring!
Since the hotel was about 2km from the bus station/old town, we sure got a good excercise by walking to everywhere. I wish I'd have the same motiviation to walk around that much in Tallinn as well :D
I've now visited Riga about 3-4 times, last time being about 14 years ago. And let's be real, I can't remember much in detail (other that spending your typical 5 lats at the souvenir shops, visiting the water park, the zoo and the circus)...but now it really struck me how beautiful Riga is. Every single building is interesting. And I could spend days in the central market.
Main observationis about people in Riga: they like their bicycles and the drivers sure love to honk the horn. They don't have flimsy umbrellas, every single one that I saw (and I saw many), was big and sturdy. Latvians are very proud of Laima, unfortunately there is no love for Kalev :( Even if I was able to spot a Kalev chocolate bar, it was only in one flavour and on the very bottom shelf. Which is odd, because there is a good selection of Laima products in our stores.
Thanks to the Latvian schlager TV channel in the hotel, this specific performance is haunting me. Armands Dudeks - Kāpēc Tu vēl klusē? (Bīriņi 2014).
