Finally the day has come and we are off on our adventure to the European Sauna Marathon in Otepaa, Estonia! We ended up booking flights from Gatwick to Riga, Latvia and then renting a car to get ourselves over to the event location. We wore so many layers on our travels, as we were sharing 2 suitcases between us and we had quite a few diffeent outfit changes in the days ahead of us!
As we flew into Riga, we could see that the river was frozen and when we got closer on our drive from the airport, we could see that people were out on the ice! Our hotel was an old convent in the middle of the city and under the dusting of snow it was soooo pretty.
We went exploring and found a place for dinner, then another place for rooftop drinks.
Then we went out on the frozen river ourselves and danced around. It was so joyous.
In fact, one of the places we went (our final destination before bedtime) was the Grand Hotel Kepinski where we had seen an advertisement in the airline magazine that featured a yummy looking cocktail. Quite exciting to go to this posh place in our Dry Robes.
Today (Friday) we checked out of the hotel and went to the Riga Market, then started our drive over to Otepaa, Estonia for the Friday night kick off event.
This is where we were waiting by the car in front of the convent.
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