I am back from a short trip to Istanbul, Turkey, and back to the posting.
Some time ago I posted the picture of Daugavgrīva Lighthouse. You can see the lighthouse also in this photo, just from the opposite side of the river.
Waves in the river Daugava delta after the weekend’s storm that made some damage in some other European countries but was almost nothing special here in Latvia.
We had a warning about a big storm that had to mess up everything last night, but today noone is talking about it very much, everyone still has an electricity, the wind wasn’t making much noise last night, so I think the storm was cancelled at some point.
This photo is taken near the so called Sea Gates of Riga - where Daugava flows into the Baltic Sea. Next days some more pictures from here.
Enough with Liepāja, here one more photo from Cīruļi Zoo.
Some time ago Latvia had a discussion about the status of this cat above with European Union. They wanted to forbid the hunting of lynxes, but we have them in our forests just enough to allow some control. This season it is allowed to shoot 94 of them.
A look outside our hotel window. This is some burger and BBQ restaurant near the old port of Liepāja. We didn’t go there, so I can not tell you anything about it.
The picture is taken from the window of Promenade Hotel in the Old Port of Liepāja. Not much ship movement is going on in the port. Some years ago the shore along the Trade Canal was not a very nice place, now it is really beautiful, especially at night!
On the main square in Liepāja there is a bookstore, and in that store there is a cafe which sells hand made chocolate. The cafe is named after the founder of Latvian sweets industry V.Ķuze.
Nice place to have a cup of hot chocolate!
This is something like the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We have hands, stars, just names of Latvian musicians just outside the First Latvian Rock Cafe I mentioned yesterday. Looks a little bit weird to me, like some tombstones, but anyway - may be it is just my opinion.
Liepāja is known as Latvian capital of rock music. Many of Latvian musicians come from this city. This guitar is outside the First Latvian Rock Cafe - nice place to eat, drink and have fun listening to music or dancing.
As I told in previous posts, we visited Liepāja this weekend. The city was decorated for Christmas, in my opinion much nicely than our capital Riga. Here’s one example on the main square.