See this page for a nice graph of kamping places situated right next to river Gauja inside the “Gauja National Park”. I’m sure you will bookmark this site if you’re planning to make a little boat trip in Latvia.
Here’s a video I took from my window at night on August 20th. There was a thunder coming, and you could see that spectacular amount of lightnings. This video is edited – I’ve combined here about 50 flashes from around 20 minutes of material. Yep, this is how Latvian summer thunder looks like, enjoy ;)
If you can’t see the clip, use this YouTube link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKzPD0XDYjE
P.S. the song in the video is “Somehow” from latvian group “enas“, check ‘em out too!
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TV stations and channels in Latvia. You might find some programmes here!
English programmes in Latvia.
German programmes in Latvia.
Local latvian channels.
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If you would like to share a TV channel related to Latvia, please, send us your link.
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List of biggest newspapers in Latvia. Arranged by languages.
English newspapers in Latvia.
German newspapers in Latvia.
Spanish newspapers in Latvia.
www.db.lv – newspaper “Dienas Bizness”.
www.diena.lv – newspaper “Diena”.
www.diena.lv – newspaper “Diena” comes out also in russian.
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Collection of actual news sites from Latvian webosphere – browse sites in your language, or see other news portals. Most of the sites mentioned here are free of charge, no subscription is needed to read them, and they all have comments option enabled, so feel free to participate in making of news!
www.baltictimes.com – news from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
www.db.lv/english – news in english from “Dienas Bizness”.
www.torontozinas.com – the world’s only bilingual Latvian e-zine
www.lettische-presseschau.de – Lettische Presseschau, Deutsch-Lettisches Nachrichtenfenster.
www.einnews.com/spain/newsfeed-spain-latvia – Spain Latvia news feeds.
www.delfi.lv – biggest online news portal in Latvia. No subscription, read and comment.
www.tvnet.lv – another big news site. No subscription, read and comment.
www.db.lv – business news by newspaper “Dienas Bizness”. No subscription, read and comment.
www.diena.lv – news portal by newspaper “Diena”. Read and comment, news archive requires subscription.
www.datuve.lv – IT, gadgets, Web. No subscription, read and comment.
lat.times.lv – IT and technology news. No subscription, read and comment.
rus.delfi.lv – russian version of Delfi news portal. No subscription, read and comment.
www.times.lv – technology, computers, IT. No subscription, read and comment.
rus.tvnet.lv – russian version of TVNet portal.
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Riga (Rīga) is capital city of Latvia, with population close to one million, it’s almost half of Latvian people living in one city.
It’s an old town, story goes that a small tow was established in 1201 (wow, that’s 800 years ago!) right next to small river named Riga. That river is gone long before you’ve come here to read this site, but the names is still with us ;)
During those nice and quiet middle ages many countries have ruled the Riga, germans were here, swedes were here, russians came here, local guys had some high times too, and the result is unique architecture and mix of nationalities and cultures of our town today.
You should see it! It changes every year to its best, fresh buildings, new restaurants and pubs, new suburbs with euro-class apartments. Many events during summer time, and some good concerts round the year.
The center of city is clean and nice, but as you move outside the center, you see more dirty streets, more ugly buildings from soviet times, more drunken people, in other words – the further from center, the bigger the adventure!
Riga has lots of green zones, one of the beauties of our tow. But be careful – not everywhere you can lie down on the grass and relax your feet after long walk – it’s prohibited to walk the grass in most of the central parks. There should be some warning sighs about that, but if it’s missing, ask the policeman who walk here and there is it OK that you kick off your shoes, take out your bottle of wine and enjoy the evening. Oh, damn, to drink in public places it’s also forbidden. So all that’s left is get drunk in your hotel room or some pub and then go for a nap into park. But remember, first make sure you are allowed to ;)
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If you happen to be on the bicycle road Riga – Jurmala at night, make sure you stop somewhere at the point where planes are heading to nearby RIX (Riga Airport). The airport is about one or two kilometers from that bike path, so it’s pretty impressive to see roaring jets just over your head so close-up! There’s even a sign of propeller on the asphalt drawn, it’s somewhere after trains station “Imanta” on the way to Jurmala. Stop there and wait for a while, you will like it ;)
And here’s a small video from my yesterdays trip:
(If you can’t see it, follow this YouTube link – www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVelSoOUwhg)
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I’m happy to announce that a site for Latvia Guide has been set up and is now up and running!
Regular updates about events, tips, guides and other useful info on Latvia are going to be the topics discussed here. You can take part in discussions by commenting here!
Best wishes to people visiting Latvia,
Helmut
(online editor of StartLatvia.com and iLatvia forums)
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