our hotel
view from our 3rd floor room
building acroos
detail
Aina and Ingrid
Favorite jjewelry shop
City Hall
st peter's church
Chocolate shop after dinner
janis amols - tour guide
my favorite new museom-decorative arts
linen wall hanging-6x6ft
leather book cover
red riding hood bowls
red riding hood bowls
art deco plate
sprouts
sprouts detail
dome cathedral
manhole cover
meat section of central market
honey and bread for sale
things on wall
wool store - beautiful but expensive
long shadows
flag holder
Sigulda signage
Monday - Sigulda
original door (ground has been filled in)
castle vegetation - lots of buds, few flowers
Sigulda bird
looking at turaida castle
next stop - turaida castle and tower
walking away
creatures in sigulda
lots of moss on the trees
making purchases on the second floor of the tower
view from tower
sunny day
restaurant in a town called Ragana (Witch)
A church where Aina's relatives attended
On the grounds
The rooster steeple
labyrith at the church
Cave
pretty area
stork nest from the car on the way back to Riga
's brother Karlis visiting our table
William at the Art Deco/Nouveau buildings
manhole near St Peter's
Currant wine, raspberry wine, birch juice and latvian beer. amazing!
birchtree from which juice was made
Gustavs and Ansis with US swag.
William and friends
A white cat named Garfield
Gustavs at work
Ilze and Janis
Ingrid and Elma
Latvian food! Yes there was herring.
Maris' garden tour
More moss.
Nice yard.
old friend of Ingrid's, new friend of Tracy's
kitten!
Outhouse is still there. It is still strangely picturesque
Sandra, Ingrid, Maris
The Senne Men
Snikers iela group
T and Sandra
Austin and Maris
Belgium beer at the pub next to hotel
Ansis at Sportland (where he works)
ethnographic museum
pussywillows and butterfly
woodpecker
ethnographic museum - outdoor kitchen
windmill
church door
cross near church
lunch at the ethnographic museum
panorama
poster for opera house performance
Outside the Opera House
Inside the Opera House
Omite and Opapu's chair at the Opera House
sandra and ilze at Blachheads square
New library across the river
beer garden panorama
Beer garden!
our beer garden bartender Renis
rooster restaurant by day
rooster restaurant by night
Across the Daugava - taken from St. Peter's steeple
This is where we went to take the picture
This is the picture we wanted to take
This is it!!!
Optical illusion
Panorama of the river and skyline
A church in Pardaugava
The library reflecting light
Rush hour - going into the city
Soviet metal work, train bridge and tall soviet building
Train bridge and Central market
Aina and Ingris after our trolley bus ride to Lido
Last night in Lido with our friends - Thanks, Sandra!!!
Sandra gave us beer Lats!