AsiaRooms.com Hotel Reviews (Free subscription) | yesterday
As visiting Riga very often on business I was pleasently surprised to find this hotel for my first stay. Very convenient city location, guarded car park nearby, absolutely safe, clean, with all necessary short-term tenant facilitities, friendly and professiona ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Riga - While Ukraine and Russia remain at loggerheads over gas supplies and many European states feel the chill as a result, the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been able to watch from the sidelines in relative comfort despi...
Dolphin Hotel (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
What language should a foreigner learn in Riga? The question isn't as straightforward as it sounds: over half of the city's population speaks Russian as their first language, and though all children take school leaving exams in Latvian not everyone remembers it a few years later. Only one person from the school's admin staff is a native Latvian speaker; seven of my eight classes are made up of people...
Dolphin Hotel (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The restored House of the Blackheads and St Peter's Church, Ratslaukums (Town Hall Square).
Dolphin Hotel (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
The sun had come out but the shoppers were all indoors at Riga's Central Market. All arond the converted German zeppelin hangers that form the main part of the market there were stall holders with fur hats and bodies the size of beer kegs, selling oranges and grapes from slatted benches covered with snow, and wooden kiosks with Zippo lighters, leather caps, pirated CDs and cheap, unbranded shoes. Things...
Dolphin Hotel (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
The airport car park was covered in slush, brown and dirty grey, with piles of icy snow where the grass had been. My driver smiled ironically, "Welcome to Riga, cleanest city of the world." Laughing, he kept up his despairing monologue all the way through the boxy, concrete suburbs. "Here everything is expensive. You go to the supermarket and think I don't need this bread today, the milk can wait....
Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
VILNIUS - Lithuania's Court of Appeals has upheld the seizure of almost 200 million litas (57.97 million euros) in assets of Latvia's airline airBaltic and Riga Airport. However, the court also revoked the order on the seizure of the funds of airBaltic and Riga Airport in banks and overturned proh
Dolphin Hotel (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
My flat is on the second landing of a five-storey tenement, fifty metres from the Daugava River in a part of the city my guidebook describes as "quiet, run-down...seemingly untouched by post-Soviet economic changes". I can walk to the centre in ten minutes, past an outdoor market, a bus station advertising one-way tickets to Prague for twenty-four lats, a glass-fronted multiplex and the city's first...
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Detained Latvian economist Dmitrijs Smirnovs. Source of image: online version of the WSJ article quoted and cited below. (p. A1) RIGA, Latvia -- Hammered by economic woe, this former Soviet republic recently took a novel step to contain the...
PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Just a little more thann four weeks ago, the Europe III Divisional Finals ended in a tie, with Team Latvia and Team Spain both putting up 43 points each. The decision would lie with a tiebreaker, a winner-take all heads-up match played by one member from each team. It was Riga, Latvia's Partorg who was selected by his teammates to play that final match and after a marathon 152-hand match against Spain's...
Brand Pile Weblog - Blog (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
By Mary Bush One of the oldest cities of the Livonians is Riga. It is believed in ancient times that the river Riga used to flow through the city hence the city got the name. Riga is the vacation capital of Latvia and is one of the most developed cities. It is connected through well developed motorways and serves Latvia as a commercial hub. The city of Riga is entwined in history and rich culture....
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
STOCKHOLM.- On the outskirts of Riga lies Amalias Street 5a, a house whose tenants have been documented by photographer Inta Ruka since 2004. The photos are presented, as in all Inta Ruka's projects, together with short comments based on what the individuals have told her. The comments are about why they live the way they do, who they know, what they do for a living or want to become,
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
RIGA, December 29 (RIA Novosti) - Over 400 Lativans have signed a letter addressed to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich asking him to buy their country, Latvia's novonews.lv website said on Mon...
The Hoop (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
According to krepsinis.net the lithuanian point-guard Andrius Mazutis (1.79-PG) is rumored to leave ASK Riga because of the financial problems that have been plaguing the latvian team. Corey Brewer made the beginning and moved on to Estudiantes as Riga could not pay his wages. Other players are rumored to follow as well, because the main sponsors of the team are considering to cut down their funding....
Look At This... (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
A mixed bag of links. To each his own microwave Riga holiday reviews . Very mixed and funny reviews. Thanks Dave. Ten years without a haircut The Worst ‘Roommate Wanted’ Ad EVER! World's Most Incredible Human Towers Elephant butt slide Microsoft copied the name for Xbox 360... from Sony Walter and his cat, 1995 Can the level of math education sink any lower? The Payatas Dumpsite Giant snowman rises...
