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The trees recede \u2013 just \u2013 as I enter Liepaja. A strategically important ice-free port on the Baltic (so yes, we\u2019ll meet the Soviets again soon), it\u2019s now a charming resort city, the air thick with sea salt and rich with history \u2013 such as the fascinating Madame Hoyer’s Guest House \u2013 and always within a half-hour walk of white sand beaches. Such beaches are commonplace in Western Latvia, where the grass, boardwalks and dunes give way to the dark, refreshing Baltic. Over the canal is the neighbourhood of Karosta, originally built as a Russian imperial naval base, then going through the now familiar historical transitions. It\u2019s a story told very theatrically at the prison, where you can stay if you wish. I\u2019m told by our guide\/ prison officer (who has the aggravated air of a hungover PE teacher) that they are proud to call themselves Latvia\u2019s only zero-star hotel\u2026 en-suite bucket optional.\u00a0 If anyone is looking to set a film in the Soviet Union, very little would have to be done to modify this intriguing neighbourhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt on Bern\u0101ti BeachMatt Charlton But enough of Riga, that\u2019s probably the bit you\u2019re familiar with. It\u2019s time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[4318,71,4317,4319,169,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-4420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-riga","8":"tag-city-breaks","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-inspiration","11":"tag-lakes-and-mountains","12":"tag-latvia","13":"tag-riga"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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