on the map below you see the places we travelled to in these three weeks. i really enjoyed going with the flow and in my curiosity soaking up as many details as possible. however, i came to realise that i was bound to miss out on many things.. maybe some other time i will be able to complete the picture a bit more.
these pictures are a truly random selection from the journey (truly random as i must have exceeded picasa's limit for selected pictures so it dumped more than half of my selection :)
in this place i want to thank everyone for this great journey: Diana, Andrej, Valdemaras, Olga, Andreis, Martins, Marijn, and all their friends and families which i could meet and which were so friendly and caring. I hope to see you before long :)
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I'm a bot xD
you know my opinion:)
And to add, the post disappointed me - after a promising first paragraph that arose my interest, where you name things like impressions, curiosity, details, I expected at least some checklist or collection of remarks, but got only a collage of pics.
patience my friend :) i can not do everything at the same time. it is actually quite difficult for me to put in words the impressions i had when travelling there. in some sense everything seemed quite like 'at home' just in some other time - like some kind of parallel world. but already when i write this it starts slipping through my fingers... so maybe once i can pin it down i will write some more. (also i think my posts tend to be too long anyway, so i tried to keep this one a bit shorter :P )
Ok ok I got it, either it totally blew your mind - you're speechless or you're too lazy to focus to put down in words more than just a fact that you'd have smthn to say.
It's just that a different perspective from different background apparently is the most interesting thing. For me, for example, even returning after 3 months, I see things a bit differently.
P.S. Does your claim, about your posts being too long, has something to do with comparisons? :)?
not so much :) i was just worrying that they became to long and complicated so that in the end noone was reading them.
actually i am surprised that you seem to be so curious about my opinion about the trip :) it's just not so easy to summarize 3 weeks of constant travel, for me it seemed easiest in pictures. however, i guess this approach is limited due to the subjective influence of the personality of the spectator... in short i guess for you there is not much special in those photos because you are used to all these things.
I'm curious, because it's always interesting to compare from where I see things to the visitors positions, even though you saw and experienced as much as I overcame my laziness to show. For example, the guests from Norway pointed out that everything is clean, close to each other, they were surprised how one can drive those bumpy roads, found remarkable the art-niveau and wooden architecture and were shocked about the size of the fraud stuff market.
But I see Riga as a city where everybody's is always on the run, smile and you'll get an angry look back - life's tough - what are you smilin for! You would never meet a smiling/whistling/happy maid, cashier or someone just saying hi to all that you don't actually know when entering a room. When you go out you would find loads of cocky and noisy flocks of english and italian bachelors having heard of easy accessible women in Riga - these kind of legends spread faster than the light - here's more on the issue. Though there are couple of things I like about Riga is that it's quite green, and different facets of its history can be seen in its architecture, active nightlife and that the sea is nearby - you just can runaway in a half an hour. Yeah and I love trams.
On Kuldīga - its my favorite town in Latvia - not only because of the well preserved 18th-19th ensemble of architecture, but also welcoming , plain and hospitable people that are proud about their town and its history.
Lithuania and Estonia in Latvia are seen as a brother countries of a shared faith, history and goals in future. Estonians though are looking at us as a an elder brother who they have overgrown being more consistent and progressive and use every case to compare themselves to latvians - like the brothers do :). Lithuania is obviously more densely inhabited and different history starting from 13th century when they were able to stay unite and hold away german invasion tries and establish their kingdom - if they get trapped in some arguing with latvians they would put forward this issue as the notion of supremacy, as well as their achievements in basketball :). Also there are some differences in mentality, but I guess that's already way too much, apparently I just wanted to have my say a bit and the post about Baltics was an appropriate place :).
ok, concerning the nightlife... we didnt have that much of it, apart from the wedding where we saw the day approaching so fast that it stepped on our toes ;) either way i could not have said much about the approachability of latvian women..
if you want to know my opinion about riga, it was the baltic capital which reminded me most of my home, even though there are more really old buildings (which unfortunately here did not survive the war) this actually mislead me to think riga was older, but this is actually not true, it's about 50 years diffierence :P so the old town was particularly appealing to me, especially also with the parks. and of course being so close to the seaside is brilliant.. when i think that i will travel 1 1/2 hours or 45mins respectively just to go one way to uni...
so, what else.. kuldiga i really liked, it has this cosy air of a village but more dense. and all the nature around was so pretty :)
ok, i will stop now, somehow i'm lacking creativity this evening.
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