Stranded in Riga at the moment and posting a small update of the last 2 days and my plans for the next weeks.
Yesterday I met an american guy 'Ian' who was planning to head to Riga (the capital of Latvia) I planned to join him and after a 5 hour ride in a bus with an insane 'fast driving' driver, we arrived there around 18 o'clock. Checked in a hostel with a hostess who only could speak Latvian and still could understand us?!? Accommodation for 8 Lats, around 12 euro.
That evening had a cheap dinner in a restaurant with Ian and later on watch the footbal at 22 o'clock (1 hour time difference here in the east) in a bar where they served warm beer.
This morning walked through the town visited some old sites and bought a small Latvian flag to sew on my backpack.
Today I'm planning to move to Vilnius with Ian and stay there for a few days, because that is suppose to be the nicest city of the baltics.
Maybe you are all wondering why I travel so fast and only stay for a day or 2 in a city, well actually I'm looking for a nice relax town or city with some backpackers where I could stay cheap for maybe a week or 2. And if you visited the highlights in a city like Riga or Tallinn you want to travel further and see other things. Also I skipped Norway and Finland just because of the high prices they have, and I sort of made a new travel route for the future to head up to Norway then to Finland and Russia, all camping for maybe next summer. If people want to join me in that trip, let me know, you can sign up at the bottom of this post.
At the moment I can just make it with 20 euros a day, but I'm looking for something cheaper and hopefully I will find it in Poland or even more south.
My plan for the next days is to head to Poland and then maybe Berlin to visit Tine, a friend I met in Cambodja and Thailand. And then go further south in the direction of the Ukraine and Bulgaria.
I attached one photo of my being in front of the Scientology office in Copenhagen. The connection is really slow here so don't have the time to post more, sorry.
Peace out.
3 comments:
Hi Joost,
I am not signing up for your camping trip next year.
It's great to read about your holiday adventures. Hope you soon will find a nice place to relax a bit for a few weeks and meet some new backpackers. The way you are travel ling now looks a bit like an American doing Europe but you made it clear why it is.The photo you tried to attached failed but we will see that one and many others when you are back in Groningen. Take care and enjoy your trip heading for Eastern European.
xxxx mam
Yoooooo(st),
Wil me misschien wel aanmelden voor de "camping-trip" voor volgend jaar... alhoewel ik geen idee heb hoe ik dan zit met stage enzo...shiiiit, weet niet eens hoe ik deze zomer....dus nu zit met stage enzo! Maar fok dat.
Foto was idd niet gelukt... jammer, want was erg nieuwsgierig. Mn pa vertelde dat hij daar ook es was geweest, dus ik wou et evenb laten zien... probeer het nog es zou ik zeggen. Nou, ik ga weer even verder met wat opdrachten.... nog steeds geen vacance... maargoed, "mak" om shit over jou te lezen. Mzzls
-D
Jo gangster!
We zijn nu in Praag, in 1 dag gehaald met liften. We gaan morgen door naar Bratislava/Budapest. Ik probeer je weblog beetje bij te houden, zodat we een keer kunnen meeten. Check je later man, viel spaB in de baltische staten en poland, ciao Tijs and Sam
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