{"id":4685,"date":"2015-08-27T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2015-08-27T13:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:46:41","slug":"traveling-around-riga-latvia-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-riga-latvia-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Riga, Latvia (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around: Riga,\u00a0Latvia<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Enjoying a wonderful view from our hotel window. Perfect for relaxing in the hotel room after walking around all day.
\n\u2022 Rolling my eyes a little bit as I watch all these tour groups walking around the city; the tour guide with some sort of funny umbrella so that the group won’t lose him\/her.
\n\u2022 Arriving at one of the important\u00a0buildings in the main square only to find it covered up by scaffolding, I guess it will have to be the next time I visit that I see it.
\n\u2022 Seeing well-designed and well placed wall murals on old buildings throughout the city, quite beautiful some of them!
\n\u2022 Getting to Riga at just the right time for raspberry and strawberry season; some tables at the market had huge lines waiting to buy some of these unbelievably delicious fruits.
\n\u2022 Finding a restaurant that was in a building built way back in 1221, well at least that was the year that was on the building.
\n\u2022 Listening to some street performers and being amazed at their talent; I could only guess that they were professionals.
\n\u2022 Spending time with an old friend in a foreign city for both of us; just so nice and get to make some new memories.
\n\u2022 Feeling fortunate and lucky that we had really great weather every day of our trip; the sky and clouds were magnificent.
\n\u2022 Going back to a restaurant more than once because of the great food and great restaurant staff, so nice.
\n\u2022 Laughing out loud a bit watching a\u00a0local trying to count out change in EUR, a currency they just started using a year ago I think.
\n\u2022 Using my Russian every chance I got, only to find myself in a conversation at the main market where I could only nod my head like I understood everything that the saleswoman was saying to me.
\n\u2022 Singing the Latvian Eurovision song from this year in our hotel room, and watching the performance on Youtube.
\n\u2022 Getting a tip from the hotel receptionist to take a certain tram, thinking it was going to give us a nice tour of the city, only to find out that it took us way out into completely nowhere.
\n\u2022 Looking at a pastry display case and being in awe of the decadent sugar masterpieces. (and then not trying any of them!)
\n\u2022 Loving the central market here, located in an old German\u00a0Zeppelin hanger. You can get everything here!
\n\u2022 Being a stupid tourist and probably paying a tourist price to get on a boat and take a 30 minute ride up and down the river running through the old and new parts of Riga.
\n\u2022 Going up the main tower here to get a good view of the city. We went up on the perfect evening with amazing clouds and sun shining!
\n\u2022 Walking by an 60s restaurant with a live honky-tonk band playing American music, how strange it’s here. People love it too, always a packed house.
\n\u2022 Entering a museum, getting all the way into the entrance and the ticket counter and NOT buying a ticket to get inside.<\/p>\n

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Currently we have 2<\/b>\u00a0international schools listed in Riga, Latvia\u00a0on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong> International School of Latvia<\/a> (15 comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0<\/strong> International School of Riga<\/a> (12 comments)<\/p>\n

If you are on a trip\u00a0right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience\u00a0is posted\u00a0on our blog, International School Community will give you\u00a06 free months of premium membership!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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