Next stop was the Museum of the Popular Front of Latvia. This was my favourite place of the trip. Its a free museum set up over four floors of the town house that used to be their headquarters. The lady running it is very friendly and helpful and the exhibits have English as well as Lithuanian captioning. It really gave me a good sense of what the transition from the Soviet era to a free country was like and the timelines of the events involved in it. It's not huge, but perfectly formed. While I was there a group of schoolkids in military uniform were visiting, learning about history that happened before they were born, but seems like yesterday to me. The uniforms turned out to be a bit of a theme. There were lots of places encouraging people to join the military and flags around the city were Latvia, Ukraine, European Union and Nato, you can almost feel the paranoia underlying people trying to get on with living their lives as normal.