Latvia Photo Gallery - Weeks 8~9

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1 - Crossing the Latvian border, our 2nd host-country 2 - Soviet-era apartment blocks at Karosta 3 - Karosta Russian Orthodox Cathedral amid decaying apartments blocks 4 - Watermill at Kuldīga on River Ventna

 
5 - Waterfalls spanning the River Ventna at Kuldīga 6 - Freighter moored along the waterfront at Ventspils docks 7 - Cranes lining the dockyards at Ventspils harbour 8 - Former Soviet military radio telescope at Irbene

 
9 - Clambering aloft on the radio telescope support structure 10 - Control panel of the Irbene former Soviet military radio telescope 11 - Former Liv fishing village of Jaunciems cleared by Soviets in 1950s and planted with pines 12 - Semi-derelict wooden buildings at Liv farming and fishing village of Sīkrags

 
13 - Sparkling sea along Baltic coastline at Kolka Peninsula 14 - Boat graveyard at Mazirbe from 1960s Soviet coastal restricted access 15 - Evening campfire at the hospitable Purzviedi Camping 16 - Cape Kolka, the northernmost tip of the
Latvian coastline

 
17 - Traditional Latvian dancing at Sabile Wine Festival 18 - The world's most northerly Vines on SabileWine Hill 19 - The Latvian Parliament building (The Saeima) in Rīga 20 - The Plenary Chamber of the Latvian Parliament

 
21 - Art Nouveau façade by Mikhail Eisenstein on Elizabetes iela 22 - Rīga's Freedom Monument with the figure of 'Milda' 23 - Rīga Castle (Presidential Palace) and spires of Old Town from River Daugava bridge 24 - Changing the guards at Rīga's Presidential Palace

 
25 - Rīga's Cathedral Square (Doma laukums) 26 - House of the Blackheads and St Peter's Church 27 - Rīga's Central Markets,
ex WW1 Zeppelin hangars		 28 - Rooftops of Rīga's Old Town from St Peter's Church
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