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[travelsigns-blog]

13TH OF DECEMBER

July 2014 “pop up” tile

LV: Kronvalda Park, Riga, Latvia 56.9564242, 24.1073174

RIGA 2014 is this year´s European Capital of Culture! 

You can find it at the Pavilion in Kronavalda Park, directly next to the Congress Center. 

Maybe you can even catch there some people are practicing Tai Chi.

[tirlibum]

[irbesmite-blog]

Usually, after a while of silence I say something like 'I'll be around soon with more pictures', or 'It's been a while and I am not going to do that anymore'. As I have noticed, it has been one big lie. I'm not saying I will post regularly anymore. I will just accept that I have to live life outside computer. And that I will try to remember and share some of the most interesting stuff I have experienced. Let's make this a surprise post blog, not regular one as I am afraid I am not capable of such commitment now... possibly never.

What I am sharing at the moment, is a social design project where I had the luck to assist with it's creation. ''Labas Vietas TALKA 2014'' or ''Good Place Making'' as I could translate that to an English is a project creating great public urban spaces in the hoods of Riga, the capital city of Latvia, my home country. This is the second year something like that has been developed. Last year it took over a hood called Sarkandaugava where an outdoor gymnasium and a multi-functional public square was created to freshen up quite a forgotten part of Riga.

This year there were two projects. One in a part of Riga called Ziepniekkalns or, in a local slang, Zepčix, and another one in Čiekurkalns, or Čierītis. I will post the Čiekurkalns project in the next post, meanwhile take a look at the Zep's 'Orange Windows' urban structure which finally marks a certain place in the hood of the Ziepniekkalns.

In this particular place, a seating area, dance floor and information board was created to inspire local community. In such outskirts rare is an existence of some sort of communal government. Usually there are few active people from a single block house (most of these hoods are full of 4-9 storey high soviet block housing) or a social commune made of certain group of citizens - skaters, young mums, cat ladies... It was our aim to try bringing these separate little communes together and inspire locals to develop their common public areas for their own benefit and fun!

[travellingimmy]

On a cycle up the river we found this warehouse/clothes shop. In this area you'll also find First Dacha Club, Koya and Aqua Luna - all high-end restaurant/bars with incredible interiors and menus. All in the middle of nowhere. All empty.. 

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Riga skies

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Autumn.

[rigainmycolours]

Daugava, Riga.

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[weiter-traum-nord]

Riga 1.0 - Fotos

Hier die versprochenen Bilder von Riga. Riga ist eine ziemlich verrückte Stadt die sich irgendwo zwischen Tradition und Aufbruch und zwischen Russland und Europa befindet. Auf der einen Seite hat man hier wunderschöne mittelalterliche Straßen, die auf der anderen Seite durch moderne Glasfassaden und Einkaufszentren abgelöst werden. Was sich aber durch die gesamte Stadt zieht ist eine sehr große Kreativität...liegt vielleicht auch an dem recht jungen Altersdurchschnitt.

In jedem Fall lohnt sich ein Besuch hier.

[lamyri]

4 Tage RIGA !! Am 11.9. bin ich über die Öresundbrücke nach Kopenhagen zum Flughafen gefahren, um von dort nach Riga zu fliegen. Nach einem ersten Spaziergang durch die Stadt hab ich die erste Nacht in einem wunderschönen Apartment (über AirBnB) geschlafen. Den Kontakt gebe ich gerne weiter :) Die nächsten 3 Tage war ich mit Joscha unterwegs, den ich im Frühjahr bei einen anderen Urlaub kennengelernt hab. Wir haben die komplette Stadt zu Fuß erkundet, haben gut gegessen und lettisches Bier getrunken! Besonders schön sind die Promenade am Wasser und der große Markt, wo wir uns jeden Morgen mit frischem Brot und Käse versorgt haben.

Jetzt geht es mit dem (supergünstigen!!) Bus weiter nach Vilnius, wo Joscha ein Semester studiert. Es kommt noch ein Freund aus DL und ich werde die nächste Woche dort verbringen!!

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[travellingimmy]

Galerija Istaba - A Feast for Foodies

Best for: food lovers

Bring: your other half

Price: €€€

http://www.liveriga.com/en/3819-galerija-istaba

Riga is an unknown mystery to many people, admittedly including me before I moved over here. Reactions to telling friends I was moving to Riga include:

"Where's that?"

"Who?"

"HAHAHAHA. What, seriously?"

Whilst it now has a reputation for stag dos, in between world wars it was nicknamed the Paris of the Baltics. Cue another guffaw.. IT'S TRUE.

So, when people visit I feel the need to show Riga off and prove that its a hidden gem. Which it is.

One way I decided to do this was to take visitor #1 to a quirky, cool, and ultimately TASTY eatery. Galeria Istaba is comprised of art shop on the first floor, with a mezzanine restaurant looking down to it on the second floor. The decoration is offbeat and mismatched: a plush velour sofa in one corner, exposed pipe and dishevelled chairs in the other. Its authentically downtrodden, but definitely in a down the rabbit hole kind of way.

For the meal you simply choose your main meat (vegetarians need not apply) - the day's selection was chicken, pork, duck, shrimps or sea bass. Included in this price come starters and sides. Having had a large lunch (Latvian sushi, you have no idea) we chose the shrimps as a meal and then just the solo duck breast.

First up was fresh, warm bread with a tantalising streak of pesto down the middle to dip into rustic hummus, olive tapenade and kidney bean dip. Yum. The main was just as good. Perfect little side dishes orbiting our massive bowl of shrimps and serving of pink duck. We were served moreish and creamy buckwheat salad, sweet roasted vegetables and potatoes with seasonal Chanterelles. Wil asked for more bread to mop up the earthy, rich shrimp sauce, to which they happily obliged. No mean feat in Latvia where there usually charge you 30 cents for a slice o' lemon.

The whole thing, two mains, starters, sides, drinks, coffees, a slice of marzipan cake, came to 40 EUR. It really was one of the best meals I have ever had. It was such a perfect evening, with or without the vodka and wasabi fuelled antics that followed after...

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Riga 12.08.2014