{"id":313,"date":"2006-04-12T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=313"},"modified":"2010-01-03T01:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:45:41","slug":"two-things-i-forgot-to-mention-about-riga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/04\/two-things-i-forgot-to-mention-about-riga.html","title":{"rendered":"Two things I forgot to mention about Riga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m not good at list-based stuff, so here&#8217;s two things that got left off the <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/03\/i-go-to-riga.html\">&#8220;Signs that Latvia isn&#8217;t quite fully touristified yet&#8221;<\/a> list.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can get a cheap double room at a hotel for 17 Lats a night.  &#8220;Double&#8221; as in two planky single beds, with a bathroom down the hall.  And next to the bathroom, a toilet with a sign above it asking you not to put toilet paper in the toilet; instead, please use the little plastic rubbish bin sitting on the floor. Eww.  When booking a hotel room, ask for a non-smoking room, and ask about their toilets.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riga has the world&#8217;s slowest, clumsiest pickpockets.  My travelling companion was walking past the train station when she lazily reached back and grabbed the wrist of an indeterminately-sexed teenager, whose hand was halfway into her bag and was awkwardly fumbling with the catch to get his\/her pudgy mitt further inside.  She\/he stood gawping like a bunny in the headlights while my dear, sweet confidante pinned him\/her\/it to the wall and went through its pockets until satisfied that nothing had been taken.  A friend\/sibling\/parent\/guardian\/other of the teen-thing stood by and watched without objection.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not good at list-based stuff, so here&#8217;s two things that got left off the &#8220;Signs that Latvia isn&#8217;t quite fully touristified yet&#8221; list. You can get a cheap double room at a hotel for 17 Lats a night. &#8220;Double&#8221; as in two planky single beds, with a bathroom down the hall. And next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}