Tourist tips

• Hitchhiking in Latvia is fairly common - but carries the usual risks

• Several of the old buildings in the ethnographic museum have shops selling tradition crafts

• Take care walking around the cobbled streets of Riga's Old Town  as there are potholes and loose cobbles

• The taxi drivers of Riga aren't known to be particularly honest and it is quite common for tourists to be overcharged

• At Riga train station tickets for international trains are sold at counters  1- 6, for domestic trains at 7 - 12.