Riga For a Weekend

As part of my quick tour of the Baltics, I spent a day or so in Riga. It was extremely clean. Riga has an old town but it is not as medieval as Tallin’s. In Riga, on the main square, the bricks are laid out to show where the old houses were torn down to make way for the grand square.

I still managed to find some buildings from before 1700 but it took some hunting.

I went to a market that is trendy. I think I preferred the famous central market located in the zeppelin hangars.

Riga, Latvia, Home of the Zeppelin Hangar Market

If one likes markets like I do, then visiting the massive multi-building hangar market in Riga is a treat. I hired a guide and went on a tour. Her information is in the last photo. She had to branch out during COVID and worked in a salon.

The most fascinating part of the tour to me was eating at the Soviet era cafe. The food was Latvian but the decor was kept the way it looked during communism.