{"id":21851,"date":"2016-06-03T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=21851"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:22:02","slug":"beach-bums-on-the-baltic-bay-of-riga-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/beach-bums-on-the-baltic-bay-of-riga-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Bums on the Baltic, Bay of Riga, Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zagan the motorhome’s gradually filling with fine white sand, brought in on the eight footed trio of beach bums which are Team Zagan. The car park barrier’s remained up, so no charge to stay still, and we’ve neglected to shift from yesterday’s spot. Being but\u00a0a few meters from the pristine, miles-long beach on the southern side\u00a0of the Bay of Riga, why would we\u00a0(N57.03836, E23.40254<\/a>)?<\/p>\n

\"Sunset

Sunset over the Bay of Riga<\/p><\/div>\n

Actually, that brings me nicely to an observation a couple of folks have made recently, that we’re generally doing exactly the opposite, and are burning our way across Europe faster than Concorde. A fair observation too, since we’ve not spent more than a few days in a country since we exited the cracking Croatia<\/a>. Why? Having met Karen and David (thegreygappers.co.uk<\/a>), who’re spending a year travelling Spain by motorhome, we’ve long discussed how we should use our incredibly-free lives. Should we do the same thing, and immerse ourselves in a country for months or years? Or should we keep shifting, trying to see as many countries as we can?<\/p>\n

Our conclusions are fluid, but at the moment this is where our heads are at:<\/p>\n