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Baltic Visitor

http://www.balticvisitor.com

The latest news and tips for tourists visiting the Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Written by freelance travel writer John Oates, who is currently working on a major guidebook to the region.

Added on: May 19th, 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Author: John Oates
Listed in: Travel Destinations
Tags: travel tourism estonia lithuania latvia baltic states

Recent Posts

Spring comes to Riga, courtesy of the Baltic Bulletin

Posted on Monday March 10th, 2008 at 02:10 in weather, spring, latvia

I don’t remember having read Baltic Bulletin before, although its RSS feed is in my aggregator so I guess I must have done. Today I stumbled across an article which is a few days old, in which Mike Collier evokes spring in Riga – something wh...
Latvian and Lithuanian culture in photographs

Posted on Wednesday March 5th, 2008 at 21:46 in websites, lithuania, latvia, arts & culture

It isn’t exactly a comprehensive survey, but I enjoyed About.com’s Latvian Culture 101 in Photos when I stumbled across it today. There are only seven images, but it provides a nice cross-section – I found the paragraph on writing sins ...
Prison for the ‘English pig’ who urinated on Latvia’s Freedom Monument

Posted on Sunday March 2nd, 2008 at 19:07 in drunk, arrest, jail, latvia, pissing, urinating, misbehaviour, stag & hen

Following a string of incidents involving tourists behaving badly at the Freedom Monument in Riga, a British visitor to the city has been imprisoned for five days for urinating on Latvia’s most potent symbol of the struggle for independence. I ...
The best Baltic guidebooks: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania uncovered

Posted on Saturday December 15th, 2007 at 19:17 in guide, amazon, estonia, lithuania, baltic, latvia, lonely planet, guidebook, bradt, rough guide

Regular visitors to this site may have noticed that I recently added an Amazon widget in the sidebar on the right hand side of the page, allowing visitors to buy copies of some of the best Baltic guidebooks. I thought that it might be a good idea to ...
The Baltic winter: How cold does it get, and is it any fun?

Posted on Tuesday December 11th, 2007 at 13:32 in winter, estonia, lithuania, snow, cold, season, ice, frozen, baltic, latvia, freezing, meteorology

The first thing that most people mention about the climate of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is that the winters are really quite cold. This is undeniably true, although it never gets anywhere near as chilly as much of neighbouring Russia. The tempera...
Tallinn airport extension opens today

Posted on Sunday December 9th, 2007 at 04:34 in estonia, airport, transport, tallinn, check-in

From today, passengers flying with a range of airlines – including Estonian Air, Czech Airlines, easyJet, SAS and others – will be required to check in at the new southern extension of Tallinn Airport. The extension includes nine new gates and wi...