Daugavpils – Pļaviņas – Skrīveri – Lielvārde – Riga
- A visit to BURSH brewery and beer tasting
One of the smallest breweries in Latvia. Visitors can taste and purchase light and dark BURSH beer and listen to a story of how beer is made.
- A brief stop and dinner break at the shop and cafe of Liepkalni Bakery
- Skrīveri Homemade Ice Cream – an excursion and tasting of various ice creams.
It is a family-owned company with 12 years of ice cream production experience; the ice cream is made from cow’s milk from the neighbouring farms, as well as berries and fruits both from the forest and the company’s own garden. Here, happiness takes the shape of a scoop of ice cream, with a wide variety of tastes. The ice cream cafe offers not only snacks but also a full three-course meal of ice cream dishes, such as potato ice cream with tomato sauce, horseradish ice cream with red beets and sprat, chocolate ice cream with blue cheese, pumpkin ice cream, beer ice cream, and, of course, countless varieties of sweet ice creams with fruit and berries.
- Zelma Bakery – an excursion and bread-baking
The hostess Ligita Lasmane bakes traditional rye bread and sweet and sour bread in a large wood fired oven; the dough is fermented in wooden kneading troughs. Visitors may make their own special loaves of bread that they can take home afterwards. Listen to stories about bread-baking traditions, technologies and the significance of bread in the old Latvian farmsteads while you prepare the loaves and while the bread is baking in the oven.
- Dinner and accommodation in Riga.
