From Siauliai back to Latvia

After two delightful days in Siauliai (see pic) with Audrone and her family I took the bus back to Riga this morning.
Three hours later I left my luggage at Evecooper's, and meant to go to Jurmala and the beach. The weather will be worse soon, maybe this would be the last chance for some nice sunny hours at the seashore. But then I was too tired after all. Traveling by bus can be so exhausting!
Well, instead I had some great and for a change healthy food at the bus station cafe, and strolled around the now well known streets of Riga old town. I even walked up north to Elisabetes Iela and Alberta Iela to see some more of those great Art Nouveau houses. And to Valdemar Iela and the house where Sergei Eisenstein, the world famous film director, had been born and lived in his youth.
All these days I had meant to visit one of the museums, but had never felt in the right mood to do so. But I would have hated to miss the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 1940 - 1991. So I went and stayed for two hours in this marvellous exhibition. It was impressive and sad to see the fate of the latvian people under german and sowiet russian occupation.
After this experience I did not feel like enjoying Riga nightlife and Christopher's birthday party (a guy I had met at the painting party end of July), and went home quite early. Tomorrow will be my last day in Riga for quite some time. It felt so strange and different from any town where I had been before, and now I wonder why. I had been living here for almost two weeks - things and people change...