Weekend trip to Hansa-city Bremen


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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Twitter Halloween icons (emotions)


I was just tweeting and saw that it possible to ad emotions to twitter tweets. After short searching on google, here is result. As it will be hard to remember, I’ll post them here for future tweets.

twitter halloween icons

I’ll keep them here for next year’s Halloween tweets

>o< }:o{
+-( 8-#
`O :-[
[:-]-I- X-/
∑:*) ( | )
<|:~( (|:|/)

Halloween’s event in office (+photo)


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


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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First bloggers picnic in Riga (Andrejsala)


Last week in Riga (Andrejsala) was First picnic for bloggers of Latvia. At least for bloggers, who are living in Riga. Organizer of picnic was Artūrs, who is well known in Latvian “blogosphere” with different activities and promotion of events. In a good way!

Undīne. Blogeru pikniks

On picnic were different rank bloggers. Why rank? Well in Latvia and Latvian writing blogs and web-journals (klab.lv ala livejournal.com) there were discussions about ranking and how to rank. For example, when I came to this picnic one of the first questions was “Do You have domain?” And like this it was all evening. No wonder, that I with my girlfriend left for a while, because our friend has nameday (Rūta).

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