Categories: travels
Date: 19 August 2007 09:22:34
So... I got into Riga late last night. The bus station appears to be in the less salubrious part of town (the Maquis De Sade nightclub, hotel bar and restaurant is just down the road). I noticed large groups of men standing around scowling at each other, I had a moment of realisation when I heard one of them yelling at the other "Fred over here mate" that they were all in fact British stag parties doing a traditional rampage through Eastern Europe. In fact the man doing the shouting had a Yorkshire accent which was both strangely comforting and homesickening. I decided to get off the streets and out of the rampage (and as far away as possible from the Marquis de Sade hotel) as fast as I could and ended up staying in an exhorbitantly expensive hotel. Being tightfisted I decided to make the cost back by doing my laundry in the bathtub in my room. It's the first uninterrupted sleep that I've had on this trip so it was worth the cost.
I've started to shoot "Yorkshireman Displaced - The Movie" on my camera phone. If I can find a way of uploading it you can join in with my adventure. Tonight I travel on the sleeper bus to St Petersburg. More blog action soon.