The Gorgon Rides - May 24, 2018

Bye bye Uzupis

Mad woman with messy snakey hair running through town hauling suitcase and backpack up paths, huge stairways, bobbling over cobbles, wheezing and panting. Gotta get outta here before I get arrested. Made it to the bus on time. Whew!

Backstory: taxi did not show or I was late, couldn't find one so ran for the bus station.

Best bus ride ever, quiet, comfortable, good WiFi, free tea, and bathroom. Incredible reward at the end of the run.

Then arrived in Riga to a lovely rose scented place and got one of the last tickets to an opening opera performance this evening that was creative, delightful, humorous, and of a distinctively different culture. The Gorgon managed to clean up and look presentable for the gilded opera house. Walked the ten minute walk home in still very bright light at 10:00.

The women appear to be about six inches taller than I and it is feeling more Scandinavian here physiologically and culturally. The men don't seem taller but the women are on a different scale.

                                                       The new neighborhood at night in front of the                                                              dome cathedral square and some very old houses.