St.Petersburg Cruise - Riga Page

Previous Page -
St.Petersburg

Next Page -
Travemunde

Back to this
Cruises Index Page

Back to All Cruises
Index Page

Back to the Tourism
Index Page

Back to Ken & Avis'
general Index Page

Riga

Sunday 23rd September - Riga

Central Riga from the Braemar


One of the highlights, as we have never been here before. We went on a City Tour, mostly walking & normally, a waste of money but we did not want to miss anything. Big cobbles and hard for Avis to walk on. There was a dance concert in the Small Guild Hall, using adults & primary school kids, who seemed to be having a whale of a time. Usual fokum dances. Back to the ship & after lunch, I walked onto the bridge to photo our ship, then back into town with my laptop, finding good wi-fi in a café, where I had a coffee. Then, I walked a bit further but most churches seemed shut, except the small Catholic one. Considering the Pope (who does not have many clients hereabouts) is coming tomorrow.

As most of you have not been to Riga, there are a lot of pictures here.

New National Library

Heroes

Town Hall

The House of the Blackheads

St.Roland big here

Built in 1221

St.Peter's

 

City Wall (Part 1)

 

St.Peter's spire

Doma Laukums

Doma Laukums

The Dom (not open on Sunday!)

Three Guild Huses

Anglican Church

Twin spires

The Dog House

The Parliament

Swedish Gate

Swedish Barracks

City Wall part 2

City Wall Tower

The Cat House

Livonian (i.e. Latvian) Square

Livonian Square

Little Guildhall

Inside the Little Guildhall

Inside the Little Guildhall

The Guilds

The Cordwainer

Dancers

Opera House

Presidental Palace from the river

End on

Front of the Presidental Palace

Littlee Catholic Church from the river

..& from Doma Laukens

Inside the Little Catholic Church

Inevitable Mary

Doma Laukens in the afternoon

Town Hall Market

The funny man was ok but told a few old ones.


Port 1 - Copenhagen

Port 2 - Helsinki

Port 3 - St.Petersburg

Port 4 - Riga

Port 5 - Travemunde

Port 6 - Kiel Canal


Previous Page -
St.Petersburg

Next Page -
Travemunde

Back to this
Cruises Index Page

Back to All Cruises
Index Page

Back to the Tourism
Index Page

Back to Ken & Avis'
general Index Page

Contact: Ken Baldry at 17 Gerrard Road, Islington, London N1 8AY +44(0)20 7359 6294 or e-mail him
URL: http://www.art-science.com/Tourism/Cruises/SP2018/CR4.html Last revised 1/10/2018 ©2015 Ken Baldry. All rights reserved.