A Cautionary Tale

My top travel tip for Riga is this: when in a nightclub be extra sure that the drink you’re drinking is your own. This situation may occur, for example, if the guy who’s stag-do you’re on finds a half-empty bottle of vodka and, assuming that it has been abandoned, pours everybody a drink from it. If this exact situation occurs, don’t find yourself alone at a table, gently sipping said beverage. Because the chances of three built-like-brick-outhouse bouncers descending on you from nowhere, dragging you out of the club in a headlock and demanding £25 compensation or else they’ll call the police is relatively high.

Just sayin’. Your Riga stag-trip may just end up with drunken urination on a national monument, like the majority of the other English excursions seem to, at least according to the locals. If I was Latvian, I’d hate us too.

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