Baltic Visitor

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 would like to think that the sentence will deter others, but having seen the behaviour [...]

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A few days ago, I reported on the arrest of seven Spanish and Portuguese tourists in Riga for damaging a Latvian flag while drunk. Since then, the post has received comments from a couple of friends of the arrested men. I decided to add a new post rather than just comment on the original one, [...]

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