Riga was the first stop in which the hotel included breakfast.  It was actually pretty good, and included a buffet with a fair bit of selection, in contrast to your typical North American “included” breakfast, which usually consists of some muffins.

After breakfast, we walked through the park along the canal, which was pretty nice. People were riding those rentable paddle boats through the canal, and the park was nice and green.

After walking through the park for awhile, we left and walked to a neighbourhood with nice old buildings, and then to Roman’s old neighbourhood where we saw his old apartment and school. We wandered around the school and his old neighbourhood for a bit in order to properly envision what his childhood was like.

At some point it was lunchtime, so we went to Stockpot. I had the greek stew, which was pretty good. After lunch, we wandered around a bit more, then went back to the hotel.  Michelle and I had dinner at the hotel restaurant, and Roman and Cynthia went to meet up with Roman’s aunt (he wanted to minimize the number of people that he had to translate for).  Once they returned, we went for dessert at a coffee shop in old town, then wandered around old town a bit to see what it was like at night.