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MARKETS: Diverse food market thriving inside German zeppelin hangars

baltictimes.com     13-Aug-2008          

“Are you going to Scarborough fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme” the Simon and Garfunkel number s actually older than you may think -- it dates back to England in the 15th century -- and just like the song open air...                    

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Night club scams on the rise

baltictimes.com     13-Aug-2008          

RIGA - Last May Toni Lahtinen walked into a night club in Riga’s Old Town and immediately knew he hated the place. Lahtinen, who was visiting the city from his native Finland, only stayed for about 20 minutes before going to...                    

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Food, Service and the Soviets

wordpress.com     13-Aug-2008          

Do you think it's wrong to tip a waiter just because they're cute? “I've never been so hungry in my life since arriving in Latvia”, a bloke told me in a bar last night. The barman who was very nice gave me a wry apologetic...                    

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Screensaver Factory 4 Brings Screensaver Development to the Next Level

openpr.com     12-Aug-2008          

Screensaver Factory 4 Brings Screensaver Development to the Next Level Riga (August 8, 2008) – Blumentals Software, a leading provider of screensaver development solutions, announces the release and immediate availability of...                    

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Riga is not what I expected (in a good way)

wordpress.com     11-Aug-2008          

Riga is NOTHING like I expected. As you walk around town, a significant number of signs are in Russia, and you can hear a lot of people speaking Russian. While in Tallinn there was a significant number of people who you would...                    

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Like a surgeon

wordpress.com     11-Aug-2008          

Recently a new restaurant Hospitalis has been opened on Stabu 14 in Riga. It is a must-see place if you like gore things. The restaurant looks like a medicine cabinet, while you are treated as a patient and taken good care by...                    

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Blogging Because I Can

wordpress.com     11-Aug-2008          

“You want a taxi to Riga?”, I was asked this morning in one of those classic moments of misunderstanding, due to the lack of a common language. I'd arrived at the bus station at about 5.30 this morning, a good half-hour before...                    

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Cleaners give us the brush-off

independent.ie     10-Aug-2008          

Where have all our cleaners gone? From Brazil to Latvia, from Lithuania to Poland, they came to us in their thousands. Broad-shouldered women born of communism and dictatorships seeking a better life armed with only a dustpan,...                    

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The Night Hawk has flown

rogerdarlington.co.uk     08-Aug-2008          

There'll be no postings on this blog for a week or so, since I'm off now on a short holiday in the Baltic States visiting Tallinn in Estonia, Riga in Latvia and Vilnius in Lithuania. I'll write up an account for my web site on...                    

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South Ossetia supported

baltictimes.com     08-Aug-2008   9,179 related          

RIGA- This morning, at the initiative of Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins, there was a telephone conversation between the Minister and theGeorgian Foreign Minister Ekaterine Tkeshelashvilli in orderto review the recent military...                    

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