We are both fans of popular science, history and travel TV channels. When you really don't feel like doing anything on a weekday evening, channels like National Geographic, Viasat History, Animal Planet, Discovery Travel & Living and also Моя планета are top picks. The last one caught our attention with the documentary series „Охота к перемене мест. Прибалтика.", where a five-person team travels by trailer through the coastal regions of the three Baltic states - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - and talks about places worth visiting. Although all the places mentioned are somewhat familiar, it's interesting to see how a traveller from, say, Russia views them from the outside. You also pick up some fascinating facts - for instance, about wolf forest night therapy in Lithuania, about collectors of useful and not-so-useful things in Sabile, Latvia, and about Forest Brothers' bunkers in Estonia.
Welcome to the meerkat family! Little heroes on the big screen at the "Rīga" cinema. An extraordinarily sweet and cheerful poster - I couldn't walk past. :) A captivating documentary about meerkats, remarkable little desert animals that guard their relationships with one another much like we do. The central character is a meerkat pup named Kolo, and we follow his life story in Africa's Kalahari Desert.
A sunny but slightly cool Saturday - perfect for a walk through a pine forest, marvelling at the multicoloured clusters of rhododendrons. In the central part of the rhododendron nursery is a pond where duck couples spend their leisurely days. One pair already has four lively little ducklings. Walking and admiring the splendour of the rhododendron blooms, you can easily spend more than one hour at the nursery.
Summer has finally arrived in Latvia in full force. Every warm and sunny day must be used, as we get so few of them. So I decided to put together a list of possible events where one could get out and about during the days off after the work week.
I recommend getting your energy from being active! For the past two months that's been helped by the women's fitness studio Energie. I initially chose the six-week programme, attending the circuit training room three times a week. The circuit workout alternates between exercises on eight machines and a step to upbeat music. At the start of the programme and at the end of each week there is a meeting with a trainer who shows new exercises and answers questions. Summing it all up, I can currently identify a subjective 9 pros and 4 cons - or what I liked and what I had hoped for more ...
Yesterday in the hall of the independent Riga theatre "Skatuve", the annual end-of-year concert of the flamenco dance club Duende took place. Various flamenco styles were danced on stage - tangos, farrukas, sevillanas, alegrias, tanguillo, bulerias. The performances were made more splendid not only by the variety of brightly coloured costumes, good dance technique, and the dancers' emotional engagement, but also by various dance accessories - castanets, fans, hats.
The time has come when multi-core processors are nothing special. Moreover, many new (comparatively) standards and instructions have emerged that no longer allow processor performance to be assessed simply by clock speed or core count.
Life experience has virtually no effect on the development of his sexuality, especially in the realm of sensory impressions. He is an incurable romantic; at different stages of life his imagination conjures up different figures, whose characteristic feature is their unreality.
The awareness that something belongs to us makes us happy. The more and the higher-quality objects or subjects we own, the more our sense of wellbeing is heightened. But the more firmly the conviction establishes itself that it belongs to me, the greater the dependency becomes.
No, no, there's no mistake in the title. It turns out that such a border zone (if you believe the several bright signs on the seashore) exists right here in Riga, at Daugavgrīva beach. A walk to the Northern Breakwater yesterday brought yet another surprise. It turns out that on Saturday afternoon the beach was visited by a beaver that had wandered in from goodness knows where.
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