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Morkovka

Morkovka
Morkovka (carrot) is colloquial name for shopping center located on the crossroads of Ilukstes & Deglava streets.
It was built in the end of 1980s and painted in absolutely irregular color for Soviet times - the orange one.
Nowadays the whole area around this building is called Morkovka, although it is not so orange as before.
Morkovka is also kind of nightlife center. Some main residents of the building are Enigma nightclub, Fortuna casino and Deli cafe.

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Spam

Junk mail in post boxes
How much of spam do you get daily in your post box?
By the way, flats in Latvia are being numbered, unlike as in many other countries, where the surname of flat tenant is being written on top of postbox.
Surnames in Latvia are being considered as quite private information. No one likes to make it public.

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Dogs of Riga


I have received this DVD from Ben from the Netherlands, who is one of Riga Daily Photo readers.
The Dogs of Riga is a movie based on book with the same name.
The movie was filmed in 1995, mainly in Riga, so it depicts scenes and views of Riga that time. For me it was the main reason, why I've watched this movie till the end.
Because of language barrier (movie was in Swedish and subtitles were in Dutch) I can't fully evaluate this movie :)
Thank you, Ben :)

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Postbox


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.

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Latvijas Pasts


This grey building is Central Office of Latvijas Pasts (Latvian Post).
Mail delivery works in Latvia since 1630.
It is not a big secret that everywhere outside of Latvia and Lithuania, people mixing up over those two neighbour countries.
Every month there is more than 10 tons of international mail come by mistake, because people write addresses like Vilnius, Latvia or Riga, Lithuania.
Even on BBC or CNN channels you can hear Riga, the capital city of Lithuania :)

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