Journey: Riga – Jamala – Kandava – Cape Kolka
With van chores complete we drove to a new part of town known for its art nouveau buildings. Albert and Elizabeth street have some beautiful examples; each unique, but go one street off and it’s completely different and a bit run down. So funny how cities get made up.
Post lunch we had promised the pups a beach walk and drove to Jamala which is where locals go for beach holidays. We hadn’t realised you have to pay €2 to get into the town and poor doggies weren’t allowed on the beach! Fortunately we had a back up plan so decided to drive on to a lovely waterfall walk… except we never found it 🙈 Google took us down some dirt roads with grass growing up the middle to a dead end. On the plus there were lots of cranes in the field, so Ernest sat on my knee and we watched them for a while before driving on to the small village of Kandava for a potter and ice lolly. The highlight was a hog sculpture🐗
Keen to keep our promise we pushed on and made it to Cape Kolka where the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga meet. It’s a stunning bit of beach, Mabel had a roll, Jasper tarted himself out to a baby, and Ernest wondered why I’d asked him to sit still for two minutes to get his photo taken with the sunset. Sunrise is at 5:57 if we are up…
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