Last days of the big road trip + last days in Riga

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Day Seventy-Nine: Fancy cocktails and a cheese platter at Hotel Gutenbergs with a gorgeous view of the rooftops of Riga Oldtown. Unfortunately it was pouring outside, but the silhouettes were still gorgeous!
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Day Seventy-Nine: Last beer in ALA for a while… But we will be back soon!
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Day Seventy-Nine: Found some very gourmet latvian chips – chantarelle flavoured!
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Day Seventy-Nine: Went to Roberts Bookstore and exchanged a book for a glass of wine – saving money at its finest!
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Day Seventy-Nine: Last day in Riga – had to get a photo of the gorgeous Opera House while still here.
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Day Seventy-Eight: Back in Riga. Decided to go to Leningrad pub to see some local latvian punk-metal bands play.
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Day Seventy-Seven: Last beer in Berlin at a hipster beer garden on the way back to returning our bikes.
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Day Seventy-Seven: Graffiti of Berlin.
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Day Seventy-Seven: We hired bikes and did a bit of a bike ride up to a dumpling place about 4km from Alexanderplatz – we hadnt had dumplings in nearly 3 months, so it was super satisfying! However, we ordered chinese cabbage expecting to get it with oyster sauce like in Australia, but instead we got white cabbage mixed with sweet chilli sauce – wasn’t too bad though!
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Day Seventy-Six: We arrived in Berlin at our hostel called Sunflower Hostel, which was right around the corner from the East Side Gallery, as well as amongst quite a dodgy, grungy area. We decided to go get some dinner on the local food street around the corner.
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Day Seventy-Six: Ivars trying to be Wagner.
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Day Seventy-Six: Woolworth ended up being a great find – basically like a Kmart of Europe! We bought 1 euro sunglasses, 1 euro cokes, and a 1 euro bottle of spirits. The spirits were pretty dodgy though, and we ended up using it to clean our car windows before returning it to our car rental place…
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Day Seventy-Six: We found a shop called Woolworth, and were so confused… So we decided to go check it out.
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Day Seventy-Six: A delicious fresh redcurrant and lemon ice-cream to cool down on the 30 degrees day.
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Day Seventy-Six: In Bayreuth, at the opera house where Wagner debuted some of his operas.
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Day Seventy-Six: Trip from Munich to Berlin – on the way we stopped at a small town called Bayreuth.
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Day Seventy-Five: We finally made it to Munich – and what better place to spend the warm summer evening than at a biergarten at Englischer Garten.
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Day Seventy-Five: A view from the catatombs that we visited where Mozart’s sister was buried, as well Haydn’s brother.
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Day Seventy-Five: We walked into a gorgeous church, and somebody was playing the organ upstairs – it was such a truly remarkable and epic sound, and a free concert!
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Day Seventy-Five: We came across a massive shop full of decorations of all colours, styles, and themes. Absolutely marvelous! There were so many beautifully painted egg shells- we had to be very careful not to knock them over!
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Day Seventy-Five: At Mozart’s birthplace, and where he spent the first few years of his life.
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Day Seventy-Five: The most well known street of Salzburg – Getreidegasse.
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Day Seventy-Five: On the way to Munich we stopped off in Salzburg, Austria. We both absolutely loved it and ended up spending 4 hours there instead of the 2 hours that we had intended. Here’s some of the beautiful houses that were built into the mountains – so magical!
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Day Seventy-Five: The beautiful drive from Slovenia to Germany, through the absolutely gorgeous Austrian alps.

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