Up at 07:00, down to breakfast and filled up, had just about everything on offer. Despite the hotel being disappointing generally, I have to say the breakfast was good.
Bus to the airport, 1.5 hr flight to Riga then another bus to the hotel. The weather was still great, sun shining, but noticeably colder.
Plopped down in the hotel for a while then out for a walk. The time was about 17:00, we’d lost an hour by going across a time zone.
Riga is quite small, and the map we had made things look a long way away, but we found ourselves right in the main square quite quickly. We decided not to explore too much because we have another full day tomorrow. A lot of the buildings were destroyed during the war, but have been rebuilt. So they look really good if not original. We found a restaurant mentioned in TripAdvisor which looked nice and had dinner. I ordered a Caesar salad with smoked chicken to start and Song went for cream of vegetable soup. Both dishes were excellent. For main I had lamb shank cooked in the oven and Song had Confit of duck with roasted vegetables. Again, both were really good. We’ve not been too lucky with meals this trip, usually we find we can pick decent restaurants even if we stumble upon them, but so far we’ve not had a really good meal. This was though, and because we were impressed we booked a table for the following night.
Wandered down to the shopping centre and bought some groceries, then back to the hotel.
A full day in Riga tomorrow, there are some things we can look at in more detail, or if we find we have some time on our hands we could have a sauna or I might go to the movies.
Only walked 6.2 km today.
