Symbolic Forest » USSR http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog "A cornucopia of restlessness, whinging, perversity, opinion and bad jokes" - Me. Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:07:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Photo Post Of The Weekend http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/2010/01/16/photo-post-of-the-weekend/ http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/2010/01/16/photo-post-of-the-weekend/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:59:47 +0000 Forest Pines http://www.symbolicforest.com/blog/?p=2425 All that snowy weather we’ve been having – almost all gone now, apart from the enormous pile of snow cleared from the office car park – reminded me of the holiday we took a couple of years back, to RÄ«ga, Latvia. “Make sure you wrap up warmly,” said The Mother. “Get proper thermals. Lots and lots of layers.” “You’ll need to take sunglasses, too,” said Dad, “or you’ll get snow-blindness.”

All of which we ignored, fortunately, because we’d have looked bloody silly. RÄ«ga in February was not too dissimilar from Britain in February, being grey, damp, and largely snow-free; it shouldn’t really have been surprising, because it’s on about the same latitude as Dundee. We took plenty of photos; but for some reason they never appeared on here.*

Baltic Revolution Memorial, 11. novembra krastmela, RÄ«ga

View of RÄ«ga

Museum Of The Occupation, RÄ«ga

Latvijas ZinÄ?tņu akadÄ“mija (Latvian Academy of Sciences), Turgeņeva iela, RÄ«ga

Daugava river and railway bridge, RÄ«ga

* Unlike the above anecdote about the snow-blindness, etc, which definitely has.

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