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When I was researching places to stop on this trip, I read that Tallinn was a great, cheap alternative to Stockholm. I wouldn’t recommend skipping Stockholm altogether (it definitely has it’s own unique culture and experience to offer) but it was a great way to balance out our budget. Go broke in Stockholm, pinch pennies in Tallinn (and Riga). It…
We arrived the night before and ate dinner at V Vegan Restoran. Highly recommend. We loved the beet ravioli. The grilled tempeh with a coconut curry sauce and spicy tomato soup both were really good. I always like coconut curry. For dessert we devoured the strawberry mint “ice cream” and then sipped on a pot of Ayurvedic tea. The next…
After two days in Riga, we took a bus north to Estonia. Our third country of this trip! We were heading for Tallinn, a city with a well-preserved medieval Old Town, but stopped in Pärnu along the way. Pärnu is one of Estonia’s best resort towns. It sits on Pärnu Bay with long strips of beach and marshes. June through…
After our first day in Riga, we had walked around all of the Old Town and most of the Central District. But as it turns out, the churches were all closed on Monday, so the first thing we wanted to do on Tuesday was visit the St. Peter’s church tower. Before traveling to Riga, I had looked at a lot…
At first impression, Riga felt like a small city. And it’s easy to think it is in the scheme of the world. But the fact is, it houses about a third of the Latvian population, and it’s the third largest Baltic city after St. Petersburg and Stockholm. And fun fact: Riga is older than both of those cities. Late last…
Today wasn’t rainy as predicted. It rained a bit in the morning and then remained gloomy through the afternoon. Instead of spending our days in cafes and museums, we decided to bike more of the city. This time, we explored the island Södermalm by bike. There was one cafe we had to visit for breakfast though. Greta’s is the pink…