Latvia

Photo of the Moment: The Calm at Cēsis Castle, Latvia

Latvian Airline Starts Selling Cars to Passengers

Mini Cooper ©christian.senger Your flight so terrible it has you reconsidering ever taking to the skies again? Well you’re in luck because now you can throw down a down payment on a new car once your flight has reached cruising altitude. Starting Friday, passengers on all airBaltic flights will be able to buy a Mini [...]

High Culture on a Low Budget: Riga’s Latvian National Opera

The LNO’s Lights © Victoria Reay Eastern Europe is always a good bet for budget travelers; since most countries have not jumped to the Euro yet, the exchange rates for US Dollars, British Pounds, and the Euro are pretty favorable. Even cooler is that many cities in Eastern Europe have taken on a too-cool-for-school ethos, [...]

Port of Call: Riga, Latvia

I recognized those haircuts. I’d seen them in 1987. Complete with tapered stonewashed jeans tucked into high-top sneakers, teenagers and young adults filled all decks. This was, I presumed, going to be their booze cruise. The next demographic up were middle-aged men with forlorn looks dragging at cigarettes, followed by families with kids under ten [...]