vailian

Agressive Russian men shout at you in the street.
The waitresses and shop assistants are the most surly and unhelpful I have ever encountered.
There is an Art Nouveau district which has gorgeous houses, but they are very shoddily built and somehow uninviting.
We did have some nice meals, but ended up just sitting in the room and having some great plum schnapps, homemade, after the concert.
I was glad to get out of Latvia... at the border they took away my passport for a long time, holding up the departure of the bus.. because, they explained, they thought my passport was Ukrainian. Figure that out.