Tartu

From every appearance Tartu is a wonderful little city, a university town since 1632, built along the Emajogi river,

full of young students, with a lovely old town,

 and a ruined cathedral on a hilltop,

We walked by many of these sights, stopped for a delicious buffet lunch, and within 2 hours we were overcome with food poisoning and spent the next three days in our hotel room.

Also, if you are looking for a quiet place to sleep, perhaps you should pay attention to the fact that your hotel is built to resemble a bierstein?

Alexandri Hotel

We stayed an extra day in Tartu to get over our illness, then drove back to Riga, stayed in a hotel right at the airport, got up at 5 am to catch our plane, and fortunately were recuperate enough to make it home without incident!