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Recently many traffic policemen on motorcycles
and motor scooters have appeared in Riga streets. If you have stopped,
sit in the car and do not twitch. If necessary, you will be invited to
come out
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library at the center of Riga, in the Brivibas street. By the way,
books in Latvian are very expensive (on the average 10 dollars),
therefore many Latvians are compelled to be content with books in
Russian, issued in Russia
There are many orthodox
temples in Latvia. The temples here have not been subject to
destruction. There are also many Old Believers here, who ran to Latvia
from imperial Russia where there were persecutions on them
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An electric train to Jurmala direction. Local peddlers are foisting
Chinese consumer goods on the passengers who have languished from heat,
whose vigilance is dulled by anticipation of forthcoming rest on the
seashore. I am tormented always with a question: “Well why they do
not offer cold mineral water and ice-cream?” I would buy
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will now be carried away to so-called Vidzeme beach. Attributes of
civilization are absent here. But just it is pleasant to many people,
especially to Riga inhabitants. There are also clothing-optional
beaches here which conduct the history since the times of hippie. On
the picture: one or two small lamprey fishes will be found necessarily
in this rivulet, running directly through the beach to the sea, if to
dig sand at the bottom. The lamprey fish is some average between the
fish and the snake. Many consider it as a gourmet food
July 2002
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