Its starting to feel a lot like ...

... xmas (in Riga at least!!). The past weekend was spent in the capital of Latvia and on Sunday evening we paid a visit to the winter wonderland that is the Lido restaurant.

It is (apparently) the biggest log cabin in Europe and is currently totally decorated for the xmas period. At the self serve buffet you can sample up to 5,000 Latvian dishes, drink beer from THE biggest glasses we have ever seen (1 1/2 litres we reckoned!), and the female staff are dressed in traditional costume complete with (plastic) flowers in their hair. This restaurant chain is the Latvian answer to "western" fastfood chains such as McDonalds and is incredibly popular with the locals.

Super tacky but at the same time fantastic ;-))

Alli xxx