Day 86 Riga in pouring rain

Weather on the third day in Riga was really bad. It was cold, raining and there were water puddles everywhere! I realized that I was wearing the wrong pair of shoes, they were soaking in rain the minute I walked outside.

There was this place called Andrejsala, where it was supposed to be a place where we can see emerging artists and other artistic stuffs. But turned out, there was nothing there, and I made us walk under the rain for about an hour, probably not a very good decision. It was quite an uneventful morning. I decided that my feet would feel better if I sit indoors and relax, so I met with Rose and Hugo at a restaurant and began hopping from bars to tea-houses all afternoon.


(Photo: In a tea-room, where we played snakes and leaders. A not so brain-exhausting game.)

(Photo: The sky-line bar. We could see almost the entire Riga from above. It would be really nice if the weather was fine!)

As we were going from bars to tea-rooms, we passed by quite a few handsome looking embassies!



And of course some neighborhoods have even more graffitis than others.
(Photo: hehe... show em' gangster style!)

We decided that we would go to inside Riga's famous cathedral, called the Dome, and listen to their 4th largest organ. We went there and a woman at the door said that the concert has already started 50 mins ago and only 5 mins remaining. And if we still want to go in, we need to pay. Of course, we weren't stupid enough to pay for only 5 mins of organ music. We asked if we could stand outside the door and listen, but the woman said we couldn't. Hm... Christianity and the generosity.

Feeling a bit disappointed, we went to a really nice restaurant to have dinner.


Then after, we met up with Ieva and listened to some free Church music. It was so beautiful! I now think I love listening to people singing in the Church. I think it's the echo and the empty spaces that makes the music sound so much more mysterious and attractive!



Back at home, Ieva had some surprises waiting for us, we learnt how to make Latvian Easter eggs!

(Photo: According to Ieva, Latvians don't paint eggs or anything, they attempt to make patterns on the eggs with leaves, cotton strings and onion skins!)

What we did was wrap leaves around the egg, use strings to tighten them and leave them to boil water with natural red dye (of red onion skin).

(Photo: And they come out with patterns on the shell!)