MY OWN PERSONAL RIGA

LABAS! I AM COMING BACK!

If you were a "fan" of my blog- you probably noticed that I stopped writing for a while. What was a reason? Well it is quite easy... I just started travelling around! This is really difficult for me to travel and write relations after that. It was my aim of this blog, but I just ruined it a bit. IT WAS A HUGE MISTAKE. But Brom Stoker said that "We learn from failure, not from success!” and I had my lesson... This blog is called TWO SMILES JOURNEY, and the main sentence is "Happiness is only real when shared" I didn't share my feelings with you, and I am feeling a bit sorry for that, but I will try my best to share my travel and life experience all the time with you, and describe all of the past journeys! I AM COMING BAK WITH A NEW POWER!

Some of you know, some don't- I am living in Lithuania right now and taking part in Erasmus project. I will make next post about it, but what I wanted to say is that desicion to go to Lithuania was one of the best I have ever made. This part of Europe was undiscovered by me, and I am having so many opportunities to visit new lands! But I can't tell you know what is going to be visited by me, because I want to suprise you! :) The only bad thing is that most of my future trips will be organised ones and guided- I don't really like it too much, cause I love getting lost in beautiful places and discovering them on my own with beautiful people around! This time I have those beautiful and amazing people around, but still guided tours... ;) I really miss hitchiking, but this part of the year with no tent and just summer sleeping bag is of course too risky, you never know what can happen on the way, and If u won't stuck on 100km distance.

ANYWAY! RIGA!

I haven't tasted it, but still feeling like I have been there... Probably not for menagers of this reastaurant, but I think that for real travellers this advert is not really "catchy" . I know it is only commercial, but it is happening all the time around that travelling is having more and more common things with consuming( and feeling the spirit is like a secondary thing). People around are forgetting about uniqueness of the places they are visiting, about chances to feel the city or specific place... it is all about money, and this is hurting me a bit, I am not supporting consumptive world. My minds are not exactly about Riga, but in general. Money started being too important for many people, and this is not good, SOCIETY wake up! It is not all about the money!

I am trying now to get into Riga topic again :)

I can say a lot, but first thing is: I LOVE THIS CITY! And I really don't know why... Sometimes after visiting places I am feeling like I really miss this time, place, people... My trip to Riga was organised by Erasmus Network and was really good. Organised trip can really be good, believe me! But it is still better to visit places on your own. I really don't know what mede me loving this city that much...

I am living in Kaunas now, and it took us around 3 hours to get to Riga. After coming we went straight to our hostel which was really amazing, and on the 3rd floor, so not really good from drunky people ;) After few minutes I saw Hugo( my portuguese friend) sitting in the window.. and I really didn't realize before how sitting in window and just looking at beautiful river an city can make you so peacful and also so "in love" with this moment. And yeah, it can be weird for some of you, but it was one of the best moments in Riga :)

After chilling in a window, we decided to go for a walk ( in purpose it was to exchange money, because not all of us knew that in Latvia is EURO, hello! :) )

People dancing on the streets, art, beautiful views and weird people made me so happy!

After that we had dinner, and later we went out for partying, yeah! This night was awesome! We had that called " pub-crawl", and the final place was a ROCK CLUB, it really couldn't be better. But this post is not about discribing my parties so i would like to just warn you to not snap your fingers to barmans in Latvia, because you can easily be kicked out...

I am not going to write you now how beutiful buildings in Riga are, how when they were built- I don't want my blog to be another Wikipedia. Amazing city- that is all I can say about city in general. But I would like to share my feeling about the city with you. On my way I met many sculptures and monuments with animals shapes- cats, cocks, pigs...like ANIMAL FARM! Exactly, Animal Farm by George Orwell. Amazing book which I was reading being a kid, and during staying in Riga I felt exactly likea character in this book!( what can sounds a bit weirdy..) Just a great feeling. If you are planning to visit Riga- please first read this book, maybe it is only my opinion, but maybe there are more people who will feeling like that.

Now you can take a look at this beautiful place and amazing people, enjoy :) !

In the end of our trip we also visited a lovely city called Jumala, which is on the Baltic sea side. There is nothing more what I can say about this place, just look at photos and admire! :)