At first, they were small fishing towns, they were then united in 1959 to make Jurmala. Check out 716's photo album Everything started in Kemeri: someone started offering treatments, and soldiers came to get treated there after the war. [...]

Tukums is a little town located an hour away from Riga by car (60 km), it might be interesting to visit it to delve into the Latvian small town atmosphere which is not without charm. Check out 716's photo album [...]

I enjoyed Valmeria a lot, probably because I got along with the tourism office person, she really understood my needs for 716, and she drove me to many places; Valmeria is best enjoyed with a car for sure. Valemeria is a university city that is pr[...]

I was there on a rainy day, so I didn't see it under its best light. This medieval town hosts many summer concerts and festivals, and is known for being an artist haven. Walking around the city, the park, the castle is a pleasure, it's very pretty. T[...]

Sigulda is the city with the most tourism out of all the cities I visited in Latvia. I arrived there tired, under the rain, and I left the next morning. I therefore didn't get the chance to really dig deeper than the places that are already well know[...]

I had a coup de coeur for the little town Dobele. For your information, when I organized this trip with the Latvian National Tourism Office, they gave me a list of cities that were ready to receive me, and on my side I compiled a list of cities and t[...]

The Curonian Spit is a long island which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site; located in front of Klaipeda, it's northern part belongs to Lithuania, and its southern part to Russia, the famous Russian enclave that is Kaliningrad. The nature [...]

Verona is a beautiful city, but it's also a conservative and rich one, which is important to know. My friends from Verona are very different, and therefore I was able to take in a friendly and open minded Verona. Furthermore, the city is full o[...]

Klaipeda is a big commercial port with a population of 100 000, it's the second riches city in Lithuania, after Vilnius, the capital. Lithuania has five distinct ethnographic regions: Suvalkija or Sudovia, Dzūkija also called Dainava, Samogitia, A[...]

Tartu is the country's second city, the university city situated inland. People say that Tartu's quiet is conductive for generating ideas. Tartu's residents are very proud of their city, and we notice a classic Tartu-Tallinn rivalry, just like in [...]

C'est la ville balnéaire d'Estonie, "Summer Capital of Estonia" comme on dit ici, en été c'est plein à craquer. En revanche dès début septembre, ça se vide. Comme l'université locale n'est pas très réputée, les jeunes s'en vont plutôt étudier à Tartu[...]