Torero Travels by Tom Torero

Author:Tom Torero [Torero, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Torero Publishing
Published: 2016-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9. – The Baltics (Latvia, Lithuania)

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” Bill Bryson

Take the best bits of Scandinavia, the best bits of Russia and put them together. What do you get? The Baltics.

Cute blondes with blue eyes and catwalk brunettes strutting their heels. Fresh sunny summers and chilly winters. Wooden houses and cobbled Old Town centres.

What’s the downside? Well the size of the cities to start...both Riga and Vilnius are under 700,000, compared to the likes of Moscow’s 11.5 million or Kiev’s 2.8 million, so expect to see a lot less foot traffic.

The lingering bitter taste of the FSU mentality still exists, especially amongst the older generation, meaning stern faces and concrete apartment blocks outside of the gentrified centres.

Prices are not as cheap as you’d expect, and the arrival of budget airlines has cursed the Baltics with the tarnished brush of British, German and Scandinavian stag-parties.

As in Prague or Amsterdam, you’ll see armies of fat drunk guys wearing matching t-shirts or superhero costumes stumbling and smashing their way through the Old Town or riding Segways with a pint in hand.

They explain the large numbers of strip clubs, Irish pubs and rip-off bars. The locals milk them for all they’ve got, playing them (and beating them) at their own game. Hot girls are employed in pairs to roam the streets at night and hit on foreign guys. After a hook point they suggest to the guys to show them a “cool bar nearby” and bounce them to a pre-prepared venue where they get the guys to buy them drinks. When the bill comes at the end of the night for thousands of pounds, the girls vanish and local guys step in to make sure the bill is paid. Perfect daygame.

So a typical foreign guys spending time in the Baltics will quickly be labelled as “sex tourists” by the local girls. It takes a lot of convincing to show them that you’re not part of the stag world if you hit the bars in the Old Town.

As they’re now in the European Union, most of the girls you’ll meet in the Baltics will have been to London or have family / friends living abroad. It’s certainly not beginners’ daygame.

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