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    Quote Originally Posted by Sipols View Post
    If you want to know how to talk about love in Latvian, here you can find some basic phrases

    is that your sister by any chance? you both look similiar

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sundqvist View Post
    is that your sister by any chance? you both look similiar
    Of course not

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    Līgo - latvian celebration of summer solstice takes part each year at 23/24 June. It is very important day, Latvians even have day off during Līgo. As in most of summer solstice celebration all over the Europe it's mostly fire, dance, food and alcohol, of course because of Corona this Līgo will look a bit different.


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    How a secret German unit held off the Reds:




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    Peat is one of the largest natural wealth in Latvia.
    The total area of the Latvian bog is 6401 km2 or 9.9% of the country’s territory. Most peat reserves are concentrated in the eastern and central parts of Latvia. From the total area of bogs, 49.3% are low bogs(green on the map below), 41.7% are high(red on the map below) and 9% – transitional bogs(blue and yellow on the map below).



    Peat extracted in Latvia is used worldwide – 95% of Latvian peat is exported and last year export amounted to 176 million euros. In total, Latvia’s peat deposits contain 1.5 billion tons of peat. In the marshes where peat extraction is taking place as of January 1, 2020, the amount of peat was 145.5 million tons.

    Here is example of how peat is harvested


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    On VE-Day 1945 and beyond, the German Air Force launched a desperate rescue mission to evacuate German wounded and troops from the Courland Pocket in Latvia, where German forces had been cut off by the Soviet advance. Using whatever aircraft were still available, the mission ended in tragedy and destruction.

    Credits: YouTube Creative Commons; WikiCommons; Google Commons; Mark Felton Productions; Kurland Militaria; Google Maps. Sources: 'The Courland Evacuation' by Andrew Arthy (Air War Publications, 2017); 'The German Evacuation of Kurland and East Prussia' by Andrew Knighton (War History Online, 27 September 2017); 'Operation Hannibal 1945' by History Extra (BBC, 20 February 2020); 'Last American Aerial Victory in Europe' by Christopher Moore (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 8 May 2020). Thumbnail: Aldo Bidini.
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    The most intersting fact I found this autumn
    Latvia used to have the world's most northerly commercial, open-air vineyard held the Guinness World Record as the located in the village of Sabile. It is located in around the 57 parallel.



    It changed in 2008 when there was established more northernly localed vineyard.

    New vines are regularly being added to the existing ones, there are approximately 30 different varieties of vines and about 800 plants there. The majority of varieties have been created by the famous Latvian plant breeder Pauls Sukatnieks. The variety named “Zilga” is the most popular. You can even find such exotic plants as peaches, apricots and walnuts in the Wine Hill. It seems there is very appealing microclimate.



    Sabile Wine Hill has been formed twice: first in the German time (14th – 16th century) and after that it was completely restored in the period of Free State of Latvia in 1936.
    Unfortunatelly you can't buy vine from there as it's property of local government and they can't sell alcohol. The only way to try it visiting their vine festival which was held since 1999 at last weekend of July in honour to town's symbol(probably now it won't be organized, you know why). The festival is also celebration of city so there's lots of fun at that time.

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