Thursday, June 19, 2008

Latvia April 2008


In about October last year Nae nae took on the mammoth task of organising 15 people on a surprise trip to Latvia for Smarty’s birthday. Somehow we managed to keep it quiet right up til meeting the Smarts at Stansted airport, setting the foundations for a big weekend.

Riga was great and obviously it was hard not to have fun with so many friends. However the trip did prove to be quite a costly one for Jas and myself…. Following an all night bender we ended up in some of Riga’s finer clubs and ordered the 2 most expensive drinks of our lives – A beer and rum, and a bill for £250.! F*&k off…. Despite those words leaving our mouths about 100 times the bill didn’t reduce and with threats of the mafia and police from the clubs heavies Jas and I were happy to empty our wallets and settle on £120.

On the Sunday we dragged our drunken and wounded bodies out to the Baltic sea on local transport. I think the 30p train ride making us feel slightly better about our contribution to the Latvian GDP the night before. And Shane even went for a birthday dip.

Oh and I also shot the biggest machine gun I’ve ever seen and it nearly took my arm off.

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