In the past Salamandra club was the famous Drum and Bass and other electronic music nightclub in Riga.
Salamandra was opened in 2003 in the former industrial area. Since 2008 the club is relegated to oblivion.
Many electronic music artists like Future Prophecies, Pendulum and Raiden were guests DJs in Salamandra during these 5 years. I must admit that Salamandra also had reputation of the place for drug abused people.

Labels: alternative, buildings, halls, industrial, jugla, music, nightlife

Hotel Bergi is closed down since 2008, but it looks like it is still open. From a distance of course.
At some point Berģi was a popular destination for couples with a passionate desires. Despite its cheapness and remoteness here was a good restaurant with panoramic view.
It is located just next to Sigulda Highway, hence it could easily take the title of the first Riga Motel.

Labels: bergi, buildings, cafes, cheap, hotels, jugla, restaurants

No one sorts waste in Latvia, hence public dumps look terrible and have a dreadful stench kilometers around.

Labels: country, devices, nature, shame, troubles, tukums

Brīvības bulvāris (Freedom boulevard) is part of the most important and busiest street in Riga - Brivibas.

All parts of Brivibas iela, from the center outwards city: Kalku iela, Brivibas iela, Brivibas bulvaris, Brivibas gatve.

Labels: brivibas, buildings, center, churches, morning, panoramas, parks, starred, streets, summer, trees

This morning I was quite surprised to see so many people next to Nightclub Godvil.
In fact it was one of the final rehearsals before New Wave song contest.

Labels: brivibas, clubs, girls, nightlife, people, show, teika, vef

Heavy shower flooded Riga today; the storm torn branches off the trees, so many streets, roads became blocked.
Thankfully it was very short rain, hence the traffic was limited just for some hours.
The picture was taken this Sunday afternoon on the exit from Riga Airport.

Labels: airports, buses, cars, incidents, nature, rain, riga, roads, taxi, weather

A real night out must be from Dusk till Dawn, especially in summer Riga, because the sunrise is always very early.
Photo has been taken at beginning Kr Barona iela, next to Kapsula club.

Labels: center, dawn, morning, nightlife, people, streets, tramways, vecriga

T.G.I. Friday's is always called just Fridays, but most of the local people don't even know that it stands for Thank God It's Friday's, just because they simply don't go to this American restaurant.
Everyday regular visitors of Fridays are Riga tourists, who pretend that they don't like McDonald's and don't know about Hesburger, which is located 1 minute walking from here.

Labels: american, cafes, food, people, restaurants, vecriga

Mūkusala iela 46 - is the address of Trodeks main office. It is located between Railway bridge and Islands' bridge.
An advanced mobile phone repair shop is also located here, which looks more like kinda laboratory from inside.

Labels: buildings, cars, houses, mukusala, offices, pardaugava

Three lakes located in Saurieši are former quarry pits, which were used for the extraction of clay.
A Knauf factory, the the biggest consumer of extract, is also located next to this former clay pit.
In summer Sauriešu karjers (Saurieši Querry) is a famous resort because of very clean water. It is also favourite place of Latvian Scuba divers.

Labels: industrial, lakes, nature, sauriesi, summer

These days are burning hot in Riga. The LMT Office's thermometer is showing +35°C (95°F)
It is more fun, when you look at the winter picture taken 5 months Ago in January, when it -21°C.

Labels: classicism, modernism, offices, summer, teika, towers, vef, weather

2,5 years ago Riga Daily Photo was started with the picture of Vana Tallinn ferry departing from Riga Harbour. 500th post was marked with photo of another ferry - Regina Baltica.
I didn't want to break the tradition, so the second anniversary was with photo of Festival taking the Sea.
Now it's time to expose Rīgas pasažieru osta (Riga Passenger Terminal) itself and the reason is that this picture is the 1000th photo!

Just imagine, 1000 photos of Riga! Riga Daily Photo is my longest hobby ever, which is still making me happy :)
Although difficult times came and I don't have a good camera anymore, hence I have to take pictures with a low-end old digital camera. So if you like this blog, please support it by making a small donation for a new camera.
Thanks anyway, my beloved visitors and readers :)

Labels: andrejsala, birthdays, blog, buildings, harbours, hobby, ships, transport

I didn't expect that so many Spanish people are living in Riga.
Nearly all of them were in Old town to support their national team against The Netherlands and then to celebrate the victory in the Football World championship.

Labels: flags, international, people, spanish, sports, vecriga

Bivouac (Bivak) is the name of the event devoted to historical reconstructed battles, which was being held in Daugavgriva fortress this weekend.
A lot of soldiers wearing historical uniform of Swedish, Russian, French, German and other armies of 18-20 centuries inspire the feeling of being moved back for many years by time machine.

Labels: animals, daugavgriva, events, german, history, hobby, military, people, russian, swedish

Pulkvedim neviens neraksta (Nobody Writes to the Colonel) is a famous nightclub in Old Town named after the eponymous novella by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It was opened in 2001 and it is located just across the bohemian Kabata club. These both places definitely can't be called mainstream clubs. Although it is not total alternative ones.
Pulkvedis is just an good old small nightclub.

Labels: clubs, girls, morning, nightlife, people, vecriga