The shortest stop of the trip was to be in Vilnius, Lithuania. It wasn’t a universally popular descision to get the 07:00 bus from Riga, but I booked all the buses so I won. As we only had two nights there I thought it prudent to make an early start so as to make the …
Next stop on my trip was the capital of Latvia – Riga. The old city is particularly notable for its extensive German Art Nouveau architecture, which UNESCO considers to be unparalleled anywhere in the world. Similarly to Estonia, Latvia has a chaotic history and has spent much of the last few hundred years under the the boot of either the …
So, first stop on the Eastern Europe trip – Tallinn. Still somewhat of an undiscovered destination by most, though not for too much long after its induction into the Euro earlier this year. Its old town dates back to 1154 and is a UNESCO world heritage site. It is also the 2011 European Capital of Culture. It’s …
I’m off on holiday again! This time I’m dragging a couple of mates with me around the Baltic states in eastern Europe. The plan is to fly to Tallinn in Estonia and the then head south west to Krakow in Poland. Along the way we’ll be passing through Riga in Latvia and Vilnius in Lithunaia. It …
When writing or talking about anti-scientific viewpoints it is very easy to get taggled up trying to refute a vast web of of superfluous arguments and outright lies peddled by the various movements. The battle to defend hundreds of years of research, and many thousands of lifetimes worth of work by individual scientists, seems never ending. …
