May 2023. You could spend a whole day at Riga’s central markets, particularly if you had a need to stock up on granny knickers and cheese. There’s cutting-edge musical entertainment* on the pavement outside (PRESS PLAY); and historical street art, and fudge. We resisted the fudge, but not the beer. There’s a branch of Labietis,… Continue reading “Bronze Age Braggot ? Do you have something that tastes like Heineken ?” Oh, how we laughed.
Author: retiredmartin
Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.
RIGA’S MAGIC MARKETS
May 2023. Riga has astonishing architecture, gorgeous parks, quality beer and food, and one of the best art deco streets in Europe. But the reason you MUST go is an indoor market, housed in five (5) old Zeppelin hangers. The ones where they recorded “Physical Graffiti”, I guess. We’d spent seven hours in Riga in… Continue reading RIGA’S MAGIC MARKETS
“Are you here for the ice hockey ?”
May 2023. Central Riga looked a little quiet on our first night, as had Tallinn, but around 6 o’clock the streets started to get a bit lively. In the stunning Molberts saldējums ice cream shop, the young lady asked if we were here for the World Ice Hockey championships starting in Riga that week. “What’s… Continue reading “Are you here for the ice hockey ?”
CORNER BAR, RIGA
May 2023. An aimless amble on our first night in Riga, but then Riga is designed for that. Quite quiet early evening, any cruise ship traffic having long departed for Lithuania. On the corner of the crest emblazened building above Mrs RM spotted a pub. She’s good like that. “Is that one on your silly… Continue reading CORNER BAR, RIGA
TWO MORE BEERS. TOO MANY FISH HEADS.
May 2023. If you visit one place in central Riga, make it Two More Beers. RateBeer doesn’t think so, putting it in the lower half of their Riga bars, but then like Untappd that site seems more interested in the number of exclusive bottles than quality. As so often, the Norwegian reviewer gets it spot… Continue reading TWO MORE BEERS. TOO MANY FISH HEADS.
BALTIC MURK
May 2023. Day 3 of the Baltic Explorer, and a 4:20 hr trip straight south from Tallinn to Riga through an endless forest of newly planted birch and hazel. About £20 each on a Lux coach that didn’t quite mean “luxury” but at least had intermittent WiFi and leg room. Mrs RM had wanted to… Continue reading BALTIC MURK
TAKE THE FIRST BUS TO RIGA
May 2023. Two nights in Tallinn, then off to Riga. Country/city ticking is as arduous as visiting pubs in the Scottish Highands. The second night started later than planned, as we returned to our apartment on Sauna to find that, again, the key didn’t work. I rather compounded the problem by pushing the whole lock… Continue reading TAKE THE FIRST BUS TO RIGA
MINING FOR TALLINN CRAFT GOLD
May 2023. A last mini-post from Tallinn, but probably not a last trip to Estonia. In 2020 Duncan wrote a trilogy of posts about the capitals beer and football scene (the lack of Chinese takeaway tips is a weak spot in Pubmeister’s blog), and concluded it was “Pint for pint as good as anywhere I’ve… Continue reading MINING FOR TALLINN CRAFT GOLD
STARSHIP TALLINN AT POHJALA
May 2023. Even Duncan, who’s been known to squeeze reports from 3 continents and 33 non-league brewery taps into a single post, took his time in Tallinn. Have a look at his lovely post on Pohjala, where he visits the former Padarei Prison, the only building in the Estonian capital NOT a craft beer bar.… Continue reading STARSHIP TALLINN AT POHJALA
TICKING OLD TALLINN
May 2023. If these posts seem a bit rushed it’s because we have the in-laws here in Sheffield for ten (10) nights, which isn’t as challenging as two (2) weeks but Mrs RM is already ticking down the minutes. So some very short posts (I think the in-laws are stealing our internet), with a quick… Continue reading TICKING OLD TALLINN
