Baltic Visitor

Stag parties visiting the Baltics have been getting a bad press recently, so it was interesting to read a recent article in the Times which suggested that…well…it isn’t all that bad really. The writer dived headfirst into the stag experience with beer, dubious food and ‘medieval lesbian strippers’ (weren’t they minor characters in the Canterbury […]

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Last year Riga’s nightclubs – or more specifically its rapidly proliferating strip clubs – became notorious for scamming tourists out of large sums of money. Unwitting punters, often worse for wear by the end of the evening, would be presented with an outlandishly huge bill for drinks and ’services’ such as a brief chat with […]

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This afternoon the author of Bonjour l’Estonie posted an article on the British visitors brought to Estonia by cheap flights since October 2003. It starts off as mildly comical (indirectly comparing the British invasion to the 14th century arrival of the Teutonic Order), moves through being depressingly accurate (with its portrait of drunken Brits abroad) […]

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