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“You want a taxi to Riga?”, I was asked this morning in one of those classic moments of misunderstanding, due to the lack of a common language. I'd arrived at the bus station at about 5.30 this morning, a good half-hour before the terminal was due to open. Looking at the schedule and seeing nothing on the screen about buses to Riga, I wondered if I'd gone to the wrong place. There were only two buses listed: one to St Petersburg and another to a town on the Estonian/Latvian border. I went online last night and found there were no train options to get me to Riga, the capital of Latvia. There are several buses every day between the capitals, so there must be a fare bit of two-way traffic going on. At about six on the morning I had two options. There was your stock standard bus, probably still run by the government, and there... [read full story]
