My best mate had a lot of students from Philippines when he was working as an instructor in driving school in Riga. Very nice people. Now he's a pastor. God bless You.
House of the Blackheads was like a corporation in those days. It was like a club of un-married merchants and sailors where they could meet, have some drink, discuss business, make deals, and so on. Latvia was a part of Hansiatic League then under German rule. Thank You for showing my native City. We, Latvians, take pride of being unique with our southern brothers and sisters, Lithuanians in language and culture. So, please, don't think of us as of some sort of Russian branch.
Sadly a lot of Latvian Jewish heritige has been lost, that was their homeland. We all know what happened, a lot of latvians and germans took part in these crimes during those horrible times. Daugavpils was basically a jewish city and others as well. Yes, there are still some synagoges left in daugavpils, rīga and elsewhere in latvia but a lot has been lost as well. For example the beautiful syngagoes of liepāja and jelgava. In kluldīga it has been preserved and is still standing. Thats the sad part, a lot of that latvian culture has been destroyed. Also a lot of baltic german culture has probably been lost also due to war related reasons, that was their homeland as well. In latvia we see their heritige all over the place
@@dreamthedream8929 Yes. That terrible war was perpetrated by both Nazi Germany and USSR alike who divided Europe amongst them. Latvians were sent to Siberia or killed. Many Jews were collaborating with NKVD, so there's no wonder Latvians were sour about Jews those days. Jewish peoples sufferings were terrible I agree. But they were not alone. Besides Jews have always leaned in favor of what ever regime comes to power. Such a renegades... War was terrible for All Latvian people. Not the Jews alone.
@@dreamthedream8929Yes well WW2 and the after effects devastated Latvians too, the deportations under the soviets etc, the Jews weren't the only victims, and many Latvians had nothing to do with any war crimes, there were also Latvian soviets so it really was a traumatic time for many.
Glittering bling bling Katrina! I LOVE Riga! Such a beautiful city! I did a Baltic tour some years ago. All 3 capitals cities are worth visiting! Each to their own vibe. Tallinn was my favorite ( Oops my Lithuanian collegues might disagree..) Riga has a beautiful Art Nouveau district! Great vlog! Curious to learn where you guys are going next!
I was just about to ask about the long layover, but you answered my question, I am going to do a very long trip next year, I haven’t been out of Europe in 20 years🙈 so I was thinking about doing something similar as I have to have a layover somewhere but I didn’t know how to do that, good idea!😁
Y'all would be fun to travel with. I taught English in St Petersburg, Russia for three years and went to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland on visa runs. Have y'all been to Istanbul or Tbilisi? I want to take my cousin with me through the Baltic states.
I was just about to ask about the long layover, but you answered my question, I am going to do a very long trip next year, I haven’t been out of Europe in 20 years🙈 so I was thinking about doing something similar as I have to have a layover somewhere but I didn’t know how to do that, good idea!😁 9:02 “ those damned vloggers 😒” 10:09 “ hey, I have a job for you, can you be here in five minutes? and bring your weapons…”
Google flights updated the site a while back so you can for the system to only look for long layovers! It’s pretty cool. We did this with our Oslo video earlier this year. Thanks for watching!
We have In Latvia coffee vending machines italian Lavazza everywhere around country.. It is realy good coffee not like Americana drip coffee.. It is italian style..
Love the sparkly nails. Totally missed an opportunity to advertise for the onlyfans channel with the deep fried sausage. 🤣 Thank you as always for another great city tour.
Yep, we live in Latvia, in the 2nd largest city, called Daugavpils, which is 3-hours southeast of Riga, close to the border with Belarus. We're teaching English here in a smaller (70,000 pop.), quieter, and more culturally Russian part of Latvia. After 3-months, we are finding this part of the Baltic States to be quite welcoming, affordable and located in proximity to such great and often ignored places such as Lithuania, Estonia, and even Poland. Yes, you'll need more than 18+ hours in Riga to do it justice...but thanks for a nice tour. You guys have a nice style.
Thanks again! Happy you enjoy. We did a couple videos in Western Poland this year, but so much more to see. We are trying to visit every country in Europe on the blog, and need to get to Lithuania, probably in 2025. The Baltics are not very well know to us Western States folks… lots to learn! ;-)
Interesting visit... But about Nate's eye.. I hope you don't have such issues more often. If so I'd suggest you go to an Eye Doctor and have your eyes checked properly.. Why? I've had issues for many years and now facing some procedure to help heal my eyes, which I could have prevented by consulting an Eye doctor earlier.. I guess you're on Duch Health Insurance so that won't be a big problem.
Thanks you! Yeah… it got worse as the trip went on… so you know.. THREE more videos with my eyes all messed up. Doctor called allergic type conjunctivitis. Fun. It is all cleared up now, thankfully, but seeing myself while I edit these next videos is rough… 😳😱
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld - so you thought I meant the Katrina in the video? I wouldn't dare to :) The miss spelling was put in there for free association - and Miss Pronunciation needs an occasional tease too.
thank you for sharing your trip to this country...Latvia...only RUclips can travel me around the world....from the Philippines
My best mate had a lot of students from Philippines when he was working as an instructor in driving school in Riga. Very nice people. Now he's a pastor. God bless You.
I think this is one of my stops on my trip next year. Thanks for the cool preview. ❤
It’s a very nice city!
House of the Blackheads was like a corporation in those days. It was like a club of un-married merchants and sailors where they could meet, have some drink, discuss business, make deals, and so on. Latvia was a part of Hansiatic League then under German rule. Thank You for showing my native City. We, Latvians, take pride of being unique with our southern brothers and sisters, Lithuanians in language and culture. So, please, don't think of us as of some sort of Russian branch.
Sadly a lot of Latvian Jewish heritige has been lost, that was their homeland. We all know what happened, a lot of latvians and germans took part in these crimes during those horrible times. Daugavpils was basically a jewish city and others as well. Yes, there are still some synagoges left in daugavpils, rīga and elsewhere in latvia but a lot has been lost as well. For example the beautiful syngagoes of liepāja and jelgava. In kluldīga it has been preserved and is still standing. Thats the sad part, a lot of that latvian culture has been destroyed. Also a lot of baltic german culture has probably been lost also due to war related reasons, that was their homeland as well. In latvia we see their heritige all over the place
@@dreamthedream8929 Yes. That terrible war was perpetrated by both Nazi Germany and USSR alike who divided Europe amongst them. Latvians were sent to Siberia or killed. Many Jews were collaborating with NKVD, so there's no wonder Latvians were sour about Jews those days. Jewish peoples sufferings were terrible I agree. But they were not alone. Besides Jews have always leaned in favor of what ever regime comes to power. Such a renegades... War was terrible for All Latvian people. Not the Jews alone.
@@dreamthedream8929Yes well WW2 and the after effects devastated Latvians too, the deportations under the soviets etc, the Jews weren't the only victims, and many Latvians had nothing to do with any war crimes, there were also Latvian soviets so it really was a traumatic time for many.
Glittering bling bling Katrina! I LOVE Riga! Such a beautiful city! I did a Baltic tour some years ago. All 3 capitals cities are worth visiting! Each to their own vibe. Tallinn was my favorite ( Oops my Lithuanian collegues might disagree..) Riga has a beautiful Art Nouveau district! Great vlog! Curious to learn where you guys are going next!
Tallinn you say… hmm… 😉
Thanks for watching!
😂 I have an idea where your next stop might be. (That should be even more beautiful)
Nice vlog. 👍
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld
I was just about to ask about the long layover, but you answered my question, I am going to do a very long trip next year, I haven’t been out of Europe in 20 years🙈 so I was thinking about doing something similar as I have to have a layover somewhere but I didn’t know how to do that, good idea!😁
Happy travels, we look forward to seeing you again in the summer for a longer visit.😊😊😊
Hi guys, glad you liked Riga!
Thanks for showing us around Rega❤
Our pleasure!
Riga
I love the nails! 😆 Great vlog. Never expected Riva is such a nice city
sempre presente a riga dal 2003- 2019 .. ideale per visitarla 14 -15-16-agosto festa della citta'
I live in Latvia😉🇱🇻
Y'all would be fun to travel with. I taught English in St Petersburg, Russia for three years and went to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland on visa runs.
Have y'all been to Istanbul or Tbilisi?
I want to take my cousin with me through the Baltic states.
I was just about to ask about the long layover, but you answered my question, I am going to do a very long trip next year, I haven’t been out of Europe in 20 years🙈 so I was thinking about doing something similar as I have to have a layover somewhere but I didn’t know how to do that, good idea!😁
9:02 “ those damned vloggers 😒”
10:09 “ hey, I have a job for you, can you be here in five minutes? and bring your weapons…”
Google flights updated the site a while back so you can for the system to only look for long layovers! It’s pretty cool. We did this with our Oslo video earlier this year.
Thanks for watching!
Great city. Miss it. And the meat pie is CHEBUREK🤤. I would give my ipad for the tasty one)))
We have In Latvia coffee vending machines italian Lavazza everywhere around country.. It is realy good coffee not like Americana drip coffee.. It is italian style..
Love the sparkly nails. Totally missed an opportunity to advertise for the onlyfans channel with the deep fried sausage. 🤣 Thank you as always for another great city tour.
9:45 It is Cheburek!
Cheburek is from somewhere else in former Soviet Union. Intertwine of cultures is not a bad thing at all.
where this "pet all cats" sticker came from? it's so cute! 😍
Love the nails, hate the beer bike.
Yes, and yes.
Yep, we live in Latvia, in the 2nd largest city, called Daugavpils, which is 3-hours southeast of Riga, close to the border with Belarus. We're teaching English here in a smaller (70,000 pop.), quieter, and more culturally Russian part of Latvia. After 3-months, we are finding this part of the Baltic States to be quite welcoming, affordable and located in proximity to such great and often ignored places such as Lithuania, Estonia, and even Poland. Yes, you'll need more than 18+ hours in Riga to do it justice...but thanks for a nice tour. You guys have a nice style.
Thanks again! Happy you enjoy.
We did a couple videos in Western Poland this year, but so much more to see. We are trying to visit every country in Europe on the blog, and need to get to Lithuania, probably in 2025.
The Baltics are not very well know to us Western States folks… lots to learn! ;-)
Can you plz go to Aizpute Latvija
Omg hiii im a latvian and i live in Riga and i hope u like riga ❤❤
Im so glad that you guys comed to latvia i thogh it will always just a cuntry ty agen
What happened to your eye Nate? After dinner you had it
Great video guys 👍❤️
So… it only gets worse in the next few videos. Doctor thinks it was allergic conjunctivitis. So… really and pink eye… It was not fun. 😵💫
And the next leg in the journey is a ferry to Helsinki or Stockholm?
probably suspended since Covid
Tune in! You are on the right track!
You did your best! And that is enough. 18.5 hours is not much.
Totally… we have already been discussing a road trip through the country!
@@nateandkatrinadotheworldAbsolutely, if you want to experience Latvia completely and properly get out of Riga and see the country.
Where are you going to?😊
North!
Sweet video, love your chemistry! :)
✌️ Thanks for checking our video out!
Interesting visit...
But about Nate's eye.. I hope you don't have such issues more often. If so I'd suggest you go to an Eye Doctor and have your eyes checked properly.. Why? I've had issues for many years and now facing some procedure to help heal my eyes, which I could have prevented by consulting an Eye doctor earlier.. I guess you're on Duch Health Insurance so that won't be a big problem.
Thanks you! Yeah… it got worse as the trip went on… so you know.. THREE more videos with my eyes all messed up.
Doctor called allergic type conjunctivitis. Fun.
It is all cleared up now, thankfully, but seeing myself while I edit these next videos is rough… 😳😱
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Take care... it was one of my sympthoms too.. Has been "fun" for over a year now.
На базаре кушать не стоит....
Как наверно и везде на вокзале и базаре не очень хорошее качество еды...
All talk and no Catrina in a black cat suit?
*Katrina
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld - so you thought I meant the Katrina in the video? I wouldn't dare to :)
The miss spelling was put in there for free association - and Miss Pronunciation needs an occasional tease too.
Latvija was founded in 1918. 18. November and rigged independence in 1990. 4. May
Yes but the language and flag are much older.