Riga Bicycle Tours

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So its done – we closed the Daily Riga Bike Tour season of 2011 – do not worry – we will be back next Spring 2012.

You can still contact us any time and we may be able to provide a custom bike tour for You.

On other side – you can read an article about recent elections in Latvia there. Lets see how the next new powers that be run things.

So bike tours season is coming to the end slowly, but we are still running bike tours until the end of September, if You want to join our city bike tours later in autumn, then feel free to contact us.

If You want to get out of the usual hostel crowd or the pub scene of the Riga Old Town then we can list here some stuff to see in Riga this autumn.

• Arsenals cinema festival – great art-house movies from all over the world.
• Homo Novus – international festival of contemporary theatre
• Survival Kit – contemporary art festival – exhibitions, events, lectures, discussions, encounters and impetus for reflections.
• Baltā Nakts (White Nights) – White Night forum is organized by Riga City Council Department of Culture in cooperation with the active Latvian cultural organizations, involving a number of Latvian and foreign artists. The city’s cafes, galleries, bookstores, clubs and other establishments take an active part in the forum.

So its quite saturated with festivals and activities in the city, but if you want to escape all that jazz its a good idea to join our Bike Tour to Jurmala – on warm September days the beach is nice and water can still be quite warm.

So quite a long time ago we met one guy from France who was travelling around Europe on a bicycle, You can check out his blog there – about his travels and experiences.

Some days ago we were able to get into the old Andrejsala electrical station – the station was used to provide electricity for much of the Riga Old Town and the harbor area – they say that the station was operating up till 1994. A student from the Latvian Academy of Arts had installed an acoustic performance there for his degree – normally the place is closed to general public. Some sources say that the building will be transformed into an art museum or exhibition hall.

Some time ago Taka Bar changed the interior designs.

Some of the tree species in the parks of Riga are not typical for the region of Latvia – they were planted during the expansion of the Riga and some parts of the earlier Esplanade were turned into parks.

We love bicycles, but we also like old cars – this is an old Soviet car that we just noticed on the streets near Art Nouveau district in Riga.