Riga, Latvia

It was another rainy day on-and-off, which didn’t matter too much as we did a bunch of indoor stuff today.

We started at the Latvian National Museum of Art, just outside the old town. It was pretty cool, I really liked the paintings that looked like a cross between Soviet propaganda posters and covers of Ayn Rand novels. There’s likely a name for the style but I don’t know what it is. As a bonus there’s a terrace on the rooftop of the museum with great views of the nearby Nativity of Christ Cathedral.

We used our rule of thumb about museum restaurants being pretty good and had lunch there. It always feels very formal eating at a museum, like I should be talking in hushed tones I'll have the daily special, please

It rained while we were eating but had stopped by the time we headed out. We didn’t do anything exciting or worth taking a pic for the rest of the day, just relaxed.

We had dinner at Muusu, about a two minute walk from the hotel. It wasn’t raining when we looked out our hotel room but was drizzling when we got to the lobby, so we took the hotel umbrellas, which were a light blue colour. (So much detail about the umbrellas! Must be foreshadowing something).

So we walked over to Muusu. We were seated in the cosy 2nd floor. I had the veal carpaccio, followed by a very good steak; Heather had a smoked duck breast and then the zander (aka pike perch). We’ve had other zander that we liked better.

It was still dusk after dinner so walked about taking some more pics. I needed a subject in one of the alleys so Heather walked down. The hotel umbrella worked well as contrast with Heather and also with the dusk sky. (tying up the umbrella story in a neat little bow). It’s my new lock screen pic.