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Riga goes blonde. GO BLONDE parade! (more photos)

Published on June 1, 2009 in Culture and Society. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

Yesterday (May 31, 2009) Riga was under label “Go Blonde!“.It’s fundraising charity event in Riga, organized by Latvia’s Blonde Association, aims to get funding to build playgrounds for children with special needs. I posted this blog entry on allvoices.com too, so some more pictures You’ll find there too.

Update: Go Blonde 2010 (May 28 – 29). This May blonde beauties from across the European continent and the world round are gathering in Riga to kick off the greatest blonde party the world has ever seen. And as if a crowd of blindingly beautiful attendees weren’t enough, visitors are sure to enjoy the hoot and holler of a parade, a retro car tour, a contest for best in show and a host of other fun-filled activities. Go blonde this summer!

Colors of Blonde Weekend – white, pink and red

Go Blonde! Riga, May 31, Latvia

As said organizers of event there were 35 teams with 10-20 blond girls from whole Latvia (source: LETA). Even if one of  the main aim was charity for children, blond girls wanted to show, that they are smart enough too. With this event girls wanted also show that Riga is attractive tourism city and hope that tourism will break decreasing economy of Latvia.

Go Blonde on last weekend of May

This year “Go Blonde!” parade was organized first time in Latvia, but Blonde Weekend will be held every next year in Riga on last weekend of May, promised Latvia’s Blonde Association.

Blonde Weekend in Riga

Weekend of “Go Blonde!” included tennis and golf tournaments on Sport day, fashion day and of course Blond parade full with positive emotions and humor. And final ball with nominations of “Blonde – leader“, “Blonde – journalist“, “Blonde – Lawyer“, and more…

More about “Go blonde!” (Latvia’s Blonde Association) on GoBlonde.lv, which is the first international office in Latvia after International Association of Blondes main office in Sofia.

More: video on telegraf.lv http://cli.gs/aGga2h and NRA.lv http://cli.gs/pVDAa7.

PS No wonder that Riga is known as city of most beatifull AND smart girls ;)

Photo: AFP PHOTO/ ILMARS ZNOTINS (Photo credit should read ILMARS ZNOTINS/AFP/Getty Images)

More photos from Gints Freimanis:

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Weekend trip to Hansa-city Bremen

Published on November 15, 2008 in Culture and Travel. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

How it all began? So we, me and Roland, decided to use that moment when the days of cheap airfares and go to Bremen to enjoy last autumn days.

Arrival

Hostel we reserved (hostelbookers.com) already one month in advance and it was 10 min drive from the airport and the center of Bremen (Bremen Southend Hostel, southendhostel-bremen.de).

The flight went smoothly and already in Bremen, we decided that weather is too good to go with public transport and went on foot, enjoying the Bremen office and later residential areas. First, we wanted to go to Hostel, but because we did not have a city map, we went to the center of Bremen. First we saw a bridge over Weser river with small market under bridge. There was able to buy clothes, shoes, lamps, of unknown origin discs, toys and everything that in the home can be found. Next to the main square, on Saturday morning in full swing at the beautiful St. Petri church was another market.

There was able to taste fruits, cheeses and German favorite dishes. We both didn’t taste this time, because the row was too big, and if you do not know exactly German, then read descriptions and titles of food is not possible. As has been thoroughly tourists we ate nearby in the “Subway” sandwich and salad fast food restaurant. My very surprised, that a normal coffee shop, with ordinary dishes there is a rarity. There is generally sandwich, pizza and kebab street-shops on every corner.
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Halloween’s event in office (+photo)

Published on November 2, 2008 in Culture and Social life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

So far only once (as far as I remember) I was attending to Halloween’s event. This year we were “celebrating” at work. Everything was as it should be – pumpkins, candles, spiders and “witch vomit”.

Till now I was escaping from such events, but this time was OK.

Most interesting for me was the “pumpkin bowling”. Of cause some people were wearing facial masks, but as I still don’t like them, I didn’t wear anything.

This was just in few words about what happened on my (first) in the office.

For pictures, look in flickr: flickr.com/photos/rolandinsh/tags/halloween/

“White night” 2008 in Riga. Baltā nakts 2008

Published on August 31, 2008 in Culture and Social life. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Yesterday with my girlfriend we went to “White night”* in Riga. As we haven’t been for long time visiting any cultural events. From wide program, we went to just few. Like IDM music (at “Spīķeri”), tram of fairy tales and Sigur Ros movie “Heima”. For me important was to visit places where I haven’t been, like RIXC and “Spīķeri“.

It was raining and cold, so we miss some events. Still, we started RIXC, where we could listen to Universe. :)

While idea is great, we couldn’t stay so long to listen, because it was like listening to old radio with no tuned station on it. But still. I like idea, because it shows multimedia can collaborate with science.


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