"Kas ir Hipsteri?" – Changing Times in a Small Latvian City
Cēsis has changed rather a lot in the last few years, probably more than any other single town in Latvia, and the best place to get the measure of these…Continue Reading →
"I Want To Stay Here": A Chat with Gambian Jallo in Latvian
"I can’t speak about the future, but I think that there is a lot that I will be able to give to Latvia."Continue Reading →
Latvia's Oil City Ventspils: A Strange "Success Story"
Frequently, in discussions with people about the depopulation and decline of their town, they will point to Ventspils as an example of what could be done.Continue Reading →
"Aukstās Dienas…" Singing in Latvian – Without Ever Having Been to Latvia
"First, we had to compose a song about Latvia, a country we had never visited, based entirely on our own imagination..."Continue Reading →
Up the Baltick with Boswell and Johnson
"Marienburg is a vast city equal in size with London, planned with perfect regularity both architecturally and in its social organization."Continue Reading →