Sigulda, Latvia

I decide I want to get out of the city for a while so I looked up canoeing on Latvia's Gauja river. I spread the idea around and two Dutch guys are up for it. We head to Sigulda by bus where we get a ride to the river and hop in the canoes. The view from the Gauja river is actually pretty similar to what you'd see in West Virginia, expect every once in a while a medieval castle pops up. After canoeing we had lunch. There was a fallen tree nearby a few feet off the ground, so we got some sticks from the woods and had a gladiator fighting championship. Some inspiration was provided by the Latvian beer Zelta. Then we headed back to Riga just in time for a night out.