I don’t remember having read Baltic Bulletin before, although its RSS feed is in my aggregator so I guess I must have done. Today I stumbled across an article which is a few days old, in which Mike Collier evokes spring in Riga – something which reminds me of my extended trip to Latvia last […]
Entries from March 2008
Spring comes to Riga, courtesy of the Baltic Bulletin
March 10th, 2008 · 10 Comments · ShareThis
Categories: Latvia
Baltic Visitor Tags: Latvia, spring, weather
Latvian and Lithuanian culture in photographs
March 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · ShareThis
It isn’t exactly a comprehensive survey, but I enjoyed About.com’s Latvian Culture 101 in Photos when I stumbled across it today. There are only seven images, but it provides a nice cross-section – I found the paragraph on writing sins down on rocks particularly interesting. The photos are well-chosen too.
Actually, as I was writing this […]
Categories: Arts & culture, Latvia, Lithuania, Websites
Baltic Visitor Tags: culture, Latvia, Lithuania, photography
Prison for the ‘English pig’ who urinated on Latvia’s Freedom Monument
March 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · ShareThis
Following a string of incidents involving tourists behaving badly at the Freedom Monument in Riga, a British visitor to the city has been imprisoned for five days for urinating on Latvia’s most potent symbol of the struggle for independence. I would like to think that the sentence will deter others, but having seen the behaviour […]
Categories: Latvia, News, Stag & hen
Baltic Visitor Tags: arrest, drunk, jail, misbehaviour, pissing, urinating
