May 2023. Towards the river, Vilnius gets seriously gorgeous, We didn’t tick off any pubs craft beer bars in Vilnius, but we did add a new country to our list. Uzupis, a land of 7,000 east of the Vilnia River is Lithuania’s capital, has a border control, an army (retired) and an anthem, possibly stolen… Continue reading Ticking Užupis
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VITAL VILNIUS
May 2023. For a moment on Saturday morning I wondered if Mrs RM was going to attempt a new country tick in Belarus (Minsk 3:25 hours away); but sense and UK Government advice prevailed and we settled for a second Lithuanian city. This was the hectic scene at Kaunas’s station at 09:30. One train an… Continue reading VITAL VILNIUS
WHY PICK KAUNAS ?
May 2023. My most-read post of 2023* is the one about a Greene King Flaming Grill family pub in Sleaford, which rather confirms my view you’d rather read about provincial British like than Baltic craft bars. That’s a shame, as I was enjoying posting about weird Riga beers a day too late to be useful… Continue reading WHY PICK KAUNAS ?
THE SINGING SLOVAKS
May 2023. Oops. Thursday night should have been the end of our Riga rolics, but with a bus to Kaunas at 2pm we had time to kill on Friday morning. Time to tick most of the remaining items on our To Do list, including the Three Brothers, and the unlisted Colonel, with possibly the best… Continue reading THE SINGING SLOVAKS
“It looks like a Scalextric track”. One last Riga craft bar and then we’re off.
May 2023. Pretty much done with Riga now; you can always follow @SirQuinno and @Sir_Doris on Twit if you want more. But you’ll be wanting your Baltic cat before we go; They like their cats in Riga, particularly the ornamental ones, and it’s a city that doesn’t suffer from dog mess, always a blessing of… Continue reading “It looks like a Scalextric track”. One last Riga craft bar and then we’re off.
That Quinten Taylor gets EVERYWHERE
May 2023. Our apartment in Riga behind St Peters was very nice; well-equipped, quirky, and with stellar views into other peoples apartments, always a bonus, But you don’t come to Riga for 36 hours and spent time doing blog posts in your apartment when there’s bars scoring 76 on Rate Beer to visit. Folkklubs Ala… Continue reading That Quinten Taylor gets EVERYWHERE
MAY ’23 STOCKTAKE + JUNE PREVIEW
Your statutory concise May highlights package, rather distorted by an early month trip to the Baltic I’m still blogging about and the fact I’m 3 weeks behind on the blog. Sorry. Mrs RM’s new phone camera is definitely the star of the month, and those Balkan buns the culinary highlight. Closer to home, there’s a… Continue reading MAY ’23 STOCKTAKE + JUNE PREVIEW
ESCAPING NIK KERSHAW IN ART NOUVEAU RIGA
May 2023. The no doubt long awaited “modern architecture” post. Full of Bronze Age Braggot and fish soup we set off on Thursday afternoon to see what the more modern Riga has to offer the tourist with more than the six hours that old folk on cruise ships get. Well, lots of tall buildings, a… Continue reading ESCAPING NIK KERSHAW IN ART NOUVEAU RIGA
“Bronze Age Braggot ? Do you have something that tastes like Heineken ?” Oh, how we laughed.
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.
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
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