A short business trip to Riga (Lativa).

I am here writing a blog after a long time. And this time a very interesting topic.
My short business trip to Riga, Latvia.
My journey started from Bangalore (BLR) international airport. I was boarding my 1st ever flight, and straight away i got
Business class in lufthansa airlines, not because i was travelling for 1st time but my friend durgesh is a check in manager in lufthansa.
No comments on biz class, its simply amazing. why i'm saying amazing? bcoz i am typing this blog to text pad from the economy class on my return journey! dont feel any good here !
On the way to Riga, we had a airport transit in Frankfurt for 2 hours. most of the time is wasted in security checks and immigration checks.
Landed in Riga international airport in the afternoon at 2 o'clock. Thought its 2 o'clock in the afternoon, it will be warm.
oops! its -10 degrees. :) Chilling! Just thrown my luggage into the taxi and went away.
On the 1st day in Riga, we were like christoper columbus inventing Riga in 2010! everything feeling like amazing and strange too!

Next day, monday 4th jan 2010, was our 1st day in office. finally some work!
It was interesting office space all together. people were so cool that they used to come to office at 10 o'clock and leave at 5 o'clock! which is not usual here in india!
Leave that office, and work it will be there for all the time !
1st weekend went around Riga, very good place to hangout. went to St. Peter's church, wow! it was amazing.
it was demolished completely in 1941 during world war 2. but still they managed to re-build with the same architecture which was before.

finally managed to find 1  indian hotel here, "Indian Raja".. had some north indian food! I wont say "Indian food" because daily coming from office we used to have
indian food! south indian food.
Had some great cooking time here as well, used to cook Puliogare, Rice, sambar, alu mutter, vangibath...etc..
great cook now!
Our stay in riga is extended by a week, just to have more knowledge and more hands-on into the project.
1 thing i was impressed with the Riga was night life. We heard partying till vee hours in india, but here party starts after vee hours!
went to a party at 11 o'clock in the night (Most part of Bangalore is closed by 11) and came back at 6 o'clock in the morning! tats too much of partying :)

The best part of whole trip.
Enjoyed like anything in the hotel rooms. were 7 people in the hotel and enjoying! and just guess what will happen if 7 more people join.?
Yes!!! 7 more people from another project joined us in the same hotel. we named the hotel Konventa Seta as "Indians hotel"
in the last week, it was too cold, it was record low in that place in the month of january, it was around -29 degrees + windchill.
Saw AVATAR (3D) in one of the forums near by. it was cool.
And it was the final day in Riga (Friday), took our counterparts for lunch. Had some good time outside office.
returned to hotel, packed the bags and left to frankfurt.
All together it was a very good trip. Enjoyed to the core. :)