Temporary Riga photos are being published not in a regular manner due to blog author has moved to Vilnius.
You will never find any other advertisement in the world written in both Latvian and Lithuanian languages except this one, which is located 500 meters away from Latvian-Lithuanian border on Lithuania's side of Via Baltica road.
For a while I couldn't decide where to publish this photo on
Riga blog or on
Vilnius Photos blog.
Labels: ads, latvian, lithuania, lithuanian, multilingual, nature, roads, spring, trucks, writings, yellow
Baudiet Nesteidzoties (
Enjoy sipping) is the name of another
Apsara Tea House, located in old town.
Tea drinking is extremely popular in Riga, but the drinkers' preference is changing constantly.
Nowadays the person who drinks black tea with white sugar (as everybody did several years before) is a rarity.
Labels: art, buildings, cafes, food, multilingual, traditions, vecriga, windows, writings
La Belle Epoque (more famous as
French Bar) is the friendliest and the
cheapest place in Riga, which is overcrowded every day except Sunday. Why? Just because it is closed on Sundays!
99% of visitors are foreigners, students and foreign students. French Bar is the best place to practice any language. Multi-cultural, free and easy atmosphere makes this place really unique for Riga.
French Bar is located on
Maza Monetu iela in Old town.
Labels: bars, belle epoque, cheap, education, foreign, french, multilingual, nightlife, people, vecriga
Typical post box in Riga belonged to
Latvijas Pasts.
Pay a little attention to the writing on the glas :)
It is in 3 languages (from top till down) Latvian, English and Russian.
Labels: brivibas, devices, multilingual, post, projects, writings
Where was placed the first decorated Christmas Tree? :)
This is a very controversial point, but the first documented reference appeared in Riga in 1510.
To memorize this occasion in front of
Blackheads' House 3 years ago was placed a plaque with writings in 8 languages.
Nowadays every year, just few meters from this monument, new
Christmas tree is placed.
Again, Merry Christmas :D
UPDATED: Revealed that
Christmas tree is older than 500 years.
Labels: christmas, first, history, monuments, multilingual, records, trees, vecriga, writings
This is
Mārtiņa kapi (
Cemetery of Martin) in Riga.
Most of tombs here were buried more than one hundred years ago. Some of them even 250 years ago.
Interesting that writings on tombstones are in German, English, Russian, Hebrew and Latvian language. It shows that Riga was very multicultural city all its history.
See also
Lutheran Church, which is just next to this cemetery.
Labels: cemeteries, flowers, history, monuments, multilingual, pardaugava, religious, writings
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