Back to Riga ...

So well... after almost a month later, I was back to Latvia's capital, ready for new freeeeezing snots adventures and more =)
(for those who don't know what a snot is (I didn't know it either): moco in Spanish "this little (green) thing" that (sometimes) falls sloooowly from your nose at the wooooorst time. I actually looked the word up in an internet dictionary... so maybe I'm not using the right word, sorry Andresito).

Well... let's continue with other stuff and let's put all our green snots back (or not) at their place.

This time the surprise when I arrived to Riga was good: a white and melded snowed country was waiting for me.
It had been a loooong time since I had last seen such a beautiful white picture. So the hole way from the airport to my hotel I was astonished by that white movie I had in front of me. And this astonishment made me not even realise that the hotel that I booked had more than 25 floors!!! That's why when the girl at the reception told me that I was in floor number 23 I looked at her like if she was some kind of jerk (maybe you'll find this is too strong language, but you have to know that that day I woke up at 4 am and I had spent more than 5 hours in planes/airports). But... it was really true!!! So after I realised the poor receptionist was telling me the truth, I said goodbye with a shy "ohhh, ok, thanks!", and I went up to my room with the panoramic lift (my God! it was impressive!).

During the afternoon I stayed at the hotel because there was a snow storm. But I had a quiet and short walk in between two snow storms.

Riga is a small village with huge squares and spaces. All buildings reminded me of those movies showing comunist countries: grey, dark, with no decoration outside... sober. Even though Latvia is independent from the old URSS for the last 15 years, you can see that capitalism has already done the first incomes to the city: stores like Zara, Energie, Starbuck's Coffee... and the most contundent example: McDonald's everywhere!!!
Downtown all "the main" buildings (Opera House, Mayor, the Dôme, ...) are in great shape and very beautifully shown (euh... I have some lack of English expressions here). But speaking with some of the prospect's guys in Riga, they told me that social classes are really different in Latvia: either there are high classes or low classes. The middle one that is the most common in our Spain or France doesn't exist at all in Latvia...

And I bet my my soul (do I already have any?!?!?!) that you were already thinking: "that's weird, toti hasn't still talked about anything "funny" that has happened during this trip"... or "he's still alive, what is he hiding from us?" Don't worry... the best is yet to come!!! So don't miss the second part of this post!!! ;)