The morning was a little bit chaotic. Our bus was leaving Tallinn Coach Station at 10am so we had quite a lot to do: Rooms had to be packed up, the car had to be taken to the drop off point & handed over, bus tickets needed to be printed and we still had to get to the station.
Ellis had to be woken up, there was no way he would have gotten up on his own. It has to be handed to him, he got up and was ready for taking the car. Turns out the Athena Hotel (the place where the cars had to be dropped for the charity) wasnt just 5 minutes away as we were lead to believe!!! it was actually a 20 minute drive away from the town centre.
This meant that megs and i had to pack up the rooms and get everything to the bus station to meet the boys! was a little stressful i have to say! meghan had to pack up all her things and ellis' stuff. I think they had unpacked absolutely everything in their bags so it was a bit mad trying to shove everything into bags.
The taxi arrived for us at 9.20, so we had to relay up and down the car park several times to get everyones bags, jackets and sleeping bags!!! there was no longer a car to just chuck everything into!
it was about a 20 minute drive to the bus station, so we got there in plenty of time to buy water etc for the 4 and a half hour journey to Riga.
I cannot fill you in on how the journey was because I slept pretty much the whole way! I woke up when the driver stopped for a coffee and then I woke up about half an hour before we arrived!
Latvia isn't really the underdeveloped country that i assumed it was! on the outskirts of the city there were some beautiful homes, old and new. Some fantastic modern & contemporary designs!!!
Riga itself was a huge mix of traditional Russian style architecture and real cutting edge contemporary buildings. We were only there long enough to explore a very small part of the city.
We stayed at Old Riga Palace Hotel which was a lovely place. nice big rooms. ours had a balcony which was really nice as well and it was down a dead end road so no passing traffic.
After getting showers and changed we decided to go for a wander about the area we were staying and get some dinner. Everyone was so wasted that it was never going to be a late night!
We opted for Italian and it was delicious, although so full of garlic that i think come the weekend we might just be rid of the smell! haha! After dinner we stopped at another bar for a cocktail but everyone was so wiped out that we headed back to the hotel for an early night and a bit of a long lie before flying home.
Checking the time when we all went to bed it was about 9.30pm (this makes it 7.30pm uk time). We didnt care because all we could think about was sleeping.........
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment