Blogs from Latvia, Europe - page 12

Hallo allemaal, Welkom bij Blog nr. 2 vanuit Riga! Russisch leren, Riga ontdekken, werken, het EK, uitgaan en het eerste bezoek vanuit Nederland zorgen ervoor dat ik hier genoeg te doen heb. Het is hier inmiddels heerlijk weer, af en toe regen maar gegarandeerd temperaturen van boven de 20 graden. Vanaf begin juli verwachten ze temperaturen van rond de dertig graden die tot eind augustus zullen aanhouden. Allereerst wat betreft het Russisch leren; ik moet zeggen dat gaat tot nu toe aardig goed! Valeri en ik oefenen doorlopend Russische zinnen, en ik moet zeggen dat ik zowel in gesprekken tussen Russen en bijvoorbeeld commentaren op TV al het een en ander begrijp. Ik heb nog geen officiële Russische les gehad, maar dit gaat na het Midzomernachtfestival beginnen (maar daarover later meer..). Af en toe is het ... read more

Motorhome News from Latvia Latvia Chapter I 28th April 2012 We're slowly becoming acquainted with the local currency but there's not enough time to make friends with all the coins and notes, the value in £UK or the price of food and diesel. In Lithuania it was Litas, and in Latvia it is Lats. To make life easy, we brought some of each with us and hopefully we can get home with pockets empty of both. The Latvian and Lithuanian languages are rather more to our liking than Polish. There are less W's, Z's, I's and O's and for some strange reason we seem to be able to understand a few more of the words. Not that it matters too much. English is spoken and understood by most people and information in English is shown as ... read more

Wanderer Wings, Legs and Tails – was entitled a competition of photographs not much long ago organized by Kizhi Museum management. The results don’t count – that time was not important to make out who is who. By the way profi’s know it without any competitions. Important was a variety, much sense of humor, rich imagination. Fancy, fantasie! And luck. Because You can wait hours and hours till this beautiful insect or reptile – dear little thing – decides it’s time to rest a bit or, quite in juxtaposition, it’s time to go, to climb, to fly, to jump home. But… where is the home? Every photo has two titles. One from its author, mainly professional photographer. Other – from myself (NN) as it just came from above ( I mean heaven). I propone each of ... read more

Rügen II Wanderer Yes, again Rügen, again a dream land. This time – with more wide chronological swing. And just as an annex, appendix, reminder. At first, a paysage as seen and painted by Caspar David Friedrich (Kreidefelsen auf Rügen / Chalk cliffs on Rügen, ~ 1818). All fine traced, especially in the romantic wishful branch of leaves with the almost Art Nouveau motifs and winding. Also the characters – well, not really travellers, not exactly epicurians, picnic participants. The curious elderly Mr. as if wanting to look down, as if not to… Beautiful, even a bit too much. To evaluate painting as evidence of its age and the typical expression – that can I understand and support, to love and to take close to the heart – that’s not very likely …url=http://www.norsenature.com/wp-content/uploads ... read more

Wanderer As already written (in the Post The Swan of Tuonela) such symbolic signs have been made and seen much, much earlier, in ancient times (presumable Later Neolithyc) as stone forgings, carvings, drawings (petroglyphs). A number of them occurr in a beautiful shore of the nordic lake. It’s itself again a sign of Nordic Nature. Finnish it is called Ääninen / Äänisjärvi, Karelian Oniegu / Oniegu-järve, Veps Anin / Änižjärv, but Russian Onega / Onego, Onežskoe Ozero (Lake Onega / Onego, Onezhskoe lake, nowadays that lake belongs to Russia). These ancient signs are visible on lake’s shore rocks and islands. But the lake seems to be as ever: wast, mainly calm, with his own life and own fate…url=htt... read more