Latvia Stories


A cold winter

It has been a while since I've uploaded anything new here. There's a simple explanation for that, not much new has happened. I'm studying a lot and I'm able to say a few sentences now, although I doubt it's very fluent. Good thing though is that I'm learning a lot grammar which gives me a good basis in Russian. From there on I should be able to continue...


Latvia's Independence day

Latvia’s Independence day was mostly as expected. Although I was extremely surprised that there were so many Latvians. The whole city was crowded and it seemed like they all just came out of nowhere. Apparently this day is very important to them and why shouldn’t it be. After all they’ve been through they definitely earned the right to be independent. T...


Never trust your first impression

Riga is definitely a beautiful city. Well that’s actually what any foreigner would say if he had not seen the suburbs. I’ve been to some of the suburbs yesterday and it was as if the Soviet era never ended. It's hard to express exactly how it was, I guess I'll just have to get used to these suburbs since I doubt it'll be any different in Russia. It's ju...


First days

First a story that I wrote while being on the plane: What my first impression was of Eastern-European people was that they were disrespectful and did not much care about their surroundings. However when I waited for my flight to Riga in Prague I came up with another way to look at it. When the boarding started most people didn't get up to get in line. ...