PeterLambTravels: Days 4 to 10

Dear all,

I have been working a lot since the beginning of the year, so on this short holidays the most I wanted was to rest, much more rather then being travelling from one place to another.

So, much of the past days have been spent in Riga and the surroundings, walking around, going to the beach, visiting Marta's friends, reading, cooking... Well, some relaxed style holidays :)

Favourite breakfast!

I do not intend to transform this into a cooking blog, but I'll share with you some recepie of a nice meal:

Starter: Tomato & Mozarella
Main Dish: Mushroom Rizotto & Fricasse style chicken leg (you gotta love bad translations, ahah)

For the starter simply slice some tomato and mozarella and season with a pinch of salt, pepper and oregano. Voilá, done!

For the mais dish, season the chicken with Salt and Black Pepper and slice the mushrooms. Boil the mushrooms and at the same time chop one onion and place it on melted butter on the stove. After the onion is almost cooked add the rizzoto rice and cook it slowly with the water from the boiled mushrooms (slowly transfer the water from one pan to the other letting it always evaporare from the rizzotto. When it is ready add the mushrooms, one glass of white wine and some mascarpone cheese. Voila, ready!

Boil the chicken and in another pan, chop some onions, and garlic and cook them in olive oil. When almost ready chop some pursley. Add the already boiled chicken and a bit of the water where you cook the chicken. Prepare two egg yolks and the juice of half lemon and a spoon of the water where you cook the chicken. Mix everything together and switch off the stove. Voilá, done!! :)

Enjoy your meal :)

Starter

Main course

Peter Lamb at your service! :)

Cooking can be actually a lot of fun! When we invited Marta's brother, girlfriend and daughter for a dinner we prepared some lasagna with spinach, tomato, cheese and mushrooms! Sorry folks, there are plenty of secrets in this dish! :)

Lasagna

Marta, the 2nd chef! :)

Some days there was some rain, which results in some rainbows :)

Under the rainbow!

We settle to meet at 13h, I was not late! :)

Are you late Marta? :)

This days we went to the beach, as there was 30 degrees in the city!

The seaside is called Jurmala. We took the traintill Majore. The housing in Jurmala is mostly very expensive villas where mostly Russian people lives. The beach itself is quite pleasent! There are no waves at all and the sand near the shore is quite hard, so it is possible to cycle there!

The main difference from the beach in Portugal is that it is very shallow in the first meters of water, so it is common to walk for about 100 meters for the first dive :)

Flower! :)

On the way to the beach

In Majore we stopped for some ice-cream:

Made in Latvia :)

Ice-cream in Jurmala

Peter Lamb @ the beach. No waves, never! ;)

Walking and walking before diving!

First dive! No shark, it is a lamb!

Well, after a long day in the beach, you become hungry!

Peter Lamb bitting! :)

I swear it is open sea, not a lake! :)

For one of the dinners, as said above, Marta's brother, girlfrind and their baby joined us. It was a great evening!

I am sure it is not mine! :)

I am also sure it is not Marta's :)

Ice-cream for desert!!

On Saturday we head again to Lielvarde, as Sandra was celebrating birthday. There was a Sauna and they have some traditions that were nice to try, such as washing the head with honey, getting a massage with some leaves while in Sauna and go for a swim just after the Sauna. It was great to spend some time as well with them again :) cheers guys!

Painting in Riga

Who's laughing first? :)

Home made hearings! :) not my hear, though

We also met Madara, a very good friend of Marta. She is studying to become a daughter and lives with François, a french guy that came to Riga for an internship and now loves in there. It was a great evening, with a nice meal in a czech restaurant followed by some drinks in a few bars :) great evening guys, cheers!! :)