I was in Latvia at the weekend.
It was tremendous, reassuring, old-fashioned fun.
And my mindless disregard for my own financial well-being might even manage to haul Latvia out of the depressed fug of overpriced everything and underpaid everyone.
Either that, or it will remind all Rigans that every English-speaking tourist is there to be utterly fleeced, especially the ones that rent out paddle boats and deliberately paddle under fountains. Five times.
Most especially the ones that impersonate well-known members of the Latvian Green Party.
Other highlights included an amazing 8-1 win for FC Skonto over their local rivals Olimpjs, that we would have seen had it 1). been played in the stadium it was scheduled to be played in, and 2) had it taken place at the time it was scheduled to have taken place at;
the Latvian seaside: 
The most amazing diagram ever, EVER, at an open-air museum:
Creepy nouveau-traditional Latvian sculptures:
And and even creepier former Soviet government building
MIght have some more to say about the weekend tomorrow, might not. Time will tell.
QueeneMab
Not been to Latvia yet.
On the list though.
Last one is amazing building innit?
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