the big fat world

Latvia, snuggled between Lithuania and it’s Northern neighbor, Estonia, really flies under the tourist radar. This country of 2.5 million has lots to keep any traveler busy without all the tour groups you might find in other worn out former communist posts (Prague, I am talking about you!). Traveling through the country is very easy and is [...]

Nice collection of road signs and other amusing signs encountered while traveling through the Latvia. For those of you that are confused, Latvia is South of Estonia and North Lithuania. Is your 9th grade geography coming back to you? Thought I would only do one post for the entire Baltic region but the signs vary [...]

There are hundreds of benefits to traveling solo: paying more for accommodation, getting lost, eating alone, having to suffer soley through the gaps in language and communication. But my most favorite is of course, taking the ubiquitios picture of myself in some town. Here is my Latvia/Lithuania travel photo essay of the modern single traveler.

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Jelgava (pr: yel gava) sits in Southern Latvia about 50 kilometers from the Lithuaninan border. While spending more than 1 night here is unnecessary, the city itself is small and especially colorful, housing some very well maintained kaleidoscopic churches and palaces. While I don’t know their names, they were all about 15 minute walk from bus terminal [...]

Karosta Prison sits in the North end of Liepaja, Latvia. When the hammer & sickle flag flew over Latvia, Karosta was a military compound housing over 40,000 military personnel. The prison it’s self was once a hospital and was used for mainly for Russian solders. Today it sits in the middle of the empty compound [...]