On day two of our great Baltic adventure, Judith, Rosa and I took a cheap (£1.20) and efficiently on time train half an hour away to the Latvian seaside. Jurmala, the direct translation for seaside, turned out to be quite beautiful, despite the not so warm weather.
The town of Majori is biggest area in Jurmala and besides being the home to Latvia's biggest globe, something to be proud of, surely, it reminded me a lot of summers in northern michigan minus the sun. The roads were wide and sweeping, the town was quaint and the sea looked more like a very serene lake. There wasn't a whole lot to do so we shopped, ate, dodged the rain, drank beer and walked on the beach, in that order.
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| latvia's biggest globe... |
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| kiploku grauzdini: rye bread deep fried with garlic and served with a sour cream and garlic dipping sauce. I love a people who love their garlic. |
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| Hybrid strawberry/raspberries that tasted like seeds. |
Okay so there's a whole lot of food pictures here. And blogger's got a new edition which is placing boxes within boxes within boxes and is really doing my head in. Bear with me; i'll figure it out eventually. Let's go back to the seaside:
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| beach bar hut |
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| ice cold water |
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| sand bars |
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| Latvian beer. |
And back to Riga from our little train station.
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