BEAUTIFUL LATVIA

I visited Latvia, while travelling around Baltic shore this year. I took line of SIMPLE BUS (website HERE) and it took less than 5 hours to arrive from Tallin (more you can read HERE) to Riga.
Even though Riga is not stereotypically beautiful, it stole my heart from the very first moment I saw it through the bus windows.The city is an eclectic bomb with a mix of adorable Art Nouveau architecture with post-industrial and post-comunistic elements here and there and lots of green spaces in every single place it could be fitted into. In few words, it is everything that touches my sense of aesthetic.
What are the MUST SEE points, when visiting LATVIA?
Firstly- JURMALA, little town on the seashore, couple of miles away from Riga. We went there by rail, which was not cheap nor comfy, but fast and reliable, so I fully recommend it. (website HERE) When I have seen the beach my heart melted, 'cos the shore amazingly beautiful, water transparent and there was lovely sound of seagulls from time to time. As I am a sea-person (acorrdingly that some of us enjoy see and other mountains) it was everything, what I wanted.
Another place, which is worth seeing is MEZAPARKS- a 'forest-alike' complex in the middle of the city. It is located couple of minutes by car from the very centre and represents proudly the Nature of Latvia. Most of it, is still not spoiled with humans interference and can be compared to the wildest woods. In some places, there are created alleys, with set benches and build pubs gives which gives opportunity to rest or... hide from the rain, as it happened to us.
Last, but not least, must-see point is the very city centre of Riga, with it's gorgeous architecture. It is hard to name the specific place, where you should go, 'cos as I see it you need to walk through it all. Route I was taken through was from Albert Street, through Bastejkalns Park, Brivibas Pieminieklis (Freedom Monument- very important for Latvians), Central Market (for freak like me opportunity to buy local food and enjoy the 'market-environment ' is crucial to feel that 'I have fully participated in life of the city') up till 11 Novermbra Krastmala, where on one of the benches you can enjoy view of the Daugava river. As this is quite a huge walk to make, here are my tips for hungry wanderers: firstly LIDO (website is HERE), secondly PELMENI (location and more info HERE).
Not to forget about anything, there was one more thing in Riga to amuse me and it was Kiploku Grauzdini, which literally means garlic bread. It is definitely not healthy, fat as hell, but so -so- very delicious! You gotta try it, while in Latvia! .