After catching the ferry across the river mouth again from Smiltyne to Klaipeda we kept along the coast and headed north towards Latvia. As we hadn’t booked any accommodation, we just went with the wind depending on what we wanted to see or how we felt about a place. The distances are also not big and the roads were pretty good- so you can cover a lot of ground with longer stops. I had also been keeping an eye on the weather as we planned to spend some time on the island of Saaremaa -Estonia. However, when we planned to this was going to be rainy for a few days- so we were working around trying to avoid this band of weather.
We stopped at Liepaja as the golden domes of The Naval Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Nicholas caught our attention. No photos were allowed inside, but the outside was rather eye catching. On the northern outskirts of town were the Northern Forts but these were pretty disappointing and dilapidated. And caused a stumped toe in jury to my dear travelling partner.
We kept going up north towards Kolka -where there was a small national park. We had a late lunch BBQ on the beach and kept heading all the way to Riga! This is Latvia’s capital city.
