Tag: Europe
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We started out as a part of four, 3 humans and an AI agent but we’re now down to two, a human and an AI agent. Our traveling companions had to return to real life and work but the leftovers will keep on traveling. This morning we got up at 4:30 a.m. to get ready…
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7-senses hotel review of Hilton Riga in Riga, Latvia. Scoring sound, touch, taste, aroma, sight, sanctuary, and wander instinct.
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Riga Central Market’s zeppelin-hangar produce halls, a pipe organ concert that shook 800-year-old stone, roast chicken in a candlelit medieval dungeon, and the opulent House of the Black Heads — Day 3 in Riga was a full-spectrum sensory assault.
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First full day in Riga: the National Museum of Art’s fourteen masters, Museum LV’s contemporary competition, Esplanade Park’s fountains, a Viator taste tour through Central Market’s Zeppelin hangars, a perfect Cobb salad at Abbey, the Black Heads House, and Nepalese dinner at Himalaya.
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Four hours south from Tallinn on a Lux Express bus delivered us to Riga: lunch at Province, the quiet sincerity of St John’s Cathedral, Riga Dome Cathedral with its legendary Walcker organ (6,718 pipes), a hidden courtyard garden of lavender and carnations, and wood-fired pizza at Frego.
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7-senses hotel review of Hotel Telegraaf, Autograph Collection in Tallinn, Estonia. Scoring sound, touch, taste, aroma, sight, sanctuary, and wander instinct.
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Riga is the flamboyant middle child of the Baltic capitals — Art Nouveau facades, zeppelin-hangar markets, and eight centuries of occupation and resilience. Our sensory map before the journey begins.
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From medieval stone walls to modern cafés, we tested Saily’s eSIM across Tallinn. Speed tests, coverage maps, and whether it beat the local SIM.
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After Old Town’s towers and dungeons, we hit Tallinn’s museums: Kumu (Estonian art across three centuries), Kadriorg Palace (a tsar’s summer home turned gallery), Fotografiska (Mapplethorpe/Avedon/Newton), and the immersive Van Gogh experience — the one museum that wouldn’t take the Tallinn Card.
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Day 2 in Tallinn: the incense-filled Nevsky Cathedral, Niguliste’s Dance of Death chapel and thundering pipe organ, an Estonian cooking class with Soviet-era stories, barley bread, Brita cake, and bread bowls under an electric heater in the Old Town square.