This is why you NEED to visit RIGA | Europe's MOST eccentric city (VLOG)

Come and join me in exploring the beautiful capital city of Latvia, Riga. I had absolutely no expectations for Riga, just a spontaneous £4.99 outbound flight.

I was blown away by the architecture, the beauty and eccentricity of some of the buildings, such as House of the Blackheads and Riga Doms Cathedral. Combined with this, narrow streets, an abundance of colour and array of history, buildings such as The Three Brothers added a wealth of intrigue and history to the city.

I visited other interesting sites such as the Freedom Monument and Riga Central Market, considered as possibly the biggest market in Europe.

I hope you enjoyed this video, if you did feel free to join me on my other adventures. It would be great for you to come along. See you next time! :)

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[BenRobson]

Thank you all so much for watching this video! If you plan on visiting Riga for yourself, I've left some links below which you might find helpful :)

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[daniksyeye]

This actually puts such a different perspective of Riga for me as an latvian. It makes me realize that it is actually so beautiful and magical, not the same as we see it daily :)

[kristaevangeline]

It truly is spectacular, how many details you've captured in this video! I do belive that sometimes us - Latvians, forget to appreciate the true beauty of Rīga! I guess when you've seen the city so many times, the prettiness gets lost in the mundane! Thank you for this amazing video!

[HelenGolovina-yh]

Thank you for this video. I am Estonian, live in Tallinn. I come to Riga regularly for a certain clinic. So I have walked around quite a lot in Riga just to pass time for my bus or my appointment, because I am obsessed to use the 7pm bus to Tallinn. So I have walked around A LOT but never really looked at the city as a tourist cause there are other things on my mind when I am there. This video actually inspired me to spend some time exploring next time I go.
You made a good point in the video: there is a lot very different stuff all mixed up together. So there can be a medieval building, a very nice modern building, an awful Soviet style monster and some random I-dont-know-what all on the same street. And that makes it a bit hard to grasp the soul of the place. The good thing about Tallinn, my city, is that since we were quite poor after the Middle Ages, we never did all the rebuilding and remodelling during centuries, so the medieavalness in Tallinn is a lot better preserved. And then already it became illegal to pester regions with old buildings anyway, so luckily we dont have modern buildings next to Medieval ones. So as a whole I like Tallinn more. Riga is sort of all over the place. While it does have a lot of amazingly beautiful buildings. I will definitely spend more time consciously exploring there from now on.
Some of the buildings, the merchant houses, are very similar to those in Tallinn.
I have tried to find the man in the box on the riverside but never managed to find it:)

What hostel is that? (Sorry, if you mention it, I havent watched to the end yet). Have been looking for a normal hostel in Old town which is not too full. Honestly, havent found one. The ones I have found are packed with very weird people to say the least, or are very far from the centre.
There is an Anglican church near the river in Old town. I have a cat friend there. I sometimes like to sit in the church yard and have coffee and read a book. The cat always comes (from a whole in the church, so she lives there), sleeps on my lap for a while and then leaves. And so every time. Why she trusts me like that, I dont know.

It is nice to have a cool city like that a 4 hour busride away from Tallinn. Last time I was waiting for the night bus, and discovered how cool it was to walk on the bridge across the river and back.

You should check out Tallinn some time. It is kind on similar, yet different. Smaller and has a more specific feeling, I think. A definitely more quiet than Riga. We just have drunk Finns. It looks like Riga the rest of Europe"s drunk people.

Anyway, greetings to all the Latvians out there.
By the way, I went to see a Latvian play the other day in Tallinn. "The boy who saw in the dark" God, one of the most depressing plays I have ever seen. Leaves one with no hope

[TheoriginalANGEK]

My Dad was a Latvian. When he died he left us 136 hectares of land in Latvia 🇱🇻 farm land. The USSR took the land after the Second World War. Demolished the huge stone farmhouse. Then in the 90’s he got his land back when Latvia got it’s independence back. I have never visited Latvia. I also have some family there. Maybe one day I will visit there..👍♥👍🇬🇧🇱🇻 Your a great vlogger ! 👍

[lilitaroze]

Thanks for this lovely video! Riga is truly full of beauty and eccentricity. Loved it! :)

[realityvlogs]

I really miss latvia the people are as sweet as the Beautiful city riga

[JR-rfsq]

What a wonderful video, I can't wait to go back to visit Riga!

[spencerb]

this video is so helpful for me since i am going to be studying for ten weeks this summer in riga! great video!

[lasma.a]

Thank you for visiting and making such a beautiful video of my city ❤

[roland]

Thanks for this nice video on one of the beautiful small European country that other people take for granted. Riga is in one of the small country I want to visit someday.

[joachim]

I'd love to travel to Riga one day, thanks for this video! also your voice is really soothing it makes the video so enjoyable

[TWOLOVELYPEOPLETRAVEL]

Absolutely amazing and informative, great travel, great video!

[helen]

Loved this one, the market looked amazing. Great how you did the travel tips at the end.

[Freddysaint]

Nice video :) Riga is so lovely and its architecture is excellent.

[latvian]

Very nice!!!
I agree with Krista, we need to appreciate our Latvia more

[conorjfan]

Hey man! I went to Riga from Newcastle a while back and have been back again. It’s my favourite city in europe, so laid back and relaxing plus for £4.99 each way it’s cheaper than staying at home for the weekend! Great video man!

[spark_]

What a BEAUTIFUL VIEWfrom the rooftop !! 😍 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞

[notlobianever]

Heading to Riga in October for a similar solo trip, the SkyScanner model is definitely the way to see the world. £100 got me five flights over four destinations around Europe in 2019 and I'll be making many more trips like this in the near future. Can't wait to see what Riga has to offer

[antrakirsone]

Greetings from Rīga! Awesome video. If you want to see Rīga from above there is another one great point of view - Radisson SAS hotel Latvia Skyline bar and especially from lady's room here.