I guess that afternoon commercials breaks could be called "housemaid's dream"

Moral of the day

Don't disturb a guy when he's watching Avril Lavigne - Complicated.

The spice of life

You can't miss places you've never been. That's why some can be complete while being no one.

time planning refinements

Don't expect anything, but leave space for the probable best. Cos sometimes good things happen just because you are who you are.

take a pickchaah?

If you experience something exciting/thrilling/moving or whatever uncareless and the next thing on your mind is how to record it - either by taking a picture or "changing the status/blogging" then what's the sense of yourself in experiencing the process whatsoever?

Šaursliežu dzelzsceļš

a.k.a. Narrow gauge railroad is not only a common tongue twister (wanna give it a try?), but as well a reality at least in a stretch of 33km from Gulbene to Alūksne. The rest of the routes these days are either closed or adjusted to normal railways, but this one was revived as some sort of a cultural heritage and a tourist attraction.
You can compare here the gauges.

Some tourists :)

This train station boasts with an advanced infrastructure

The interior of our car

Endstation!

The rest of the stuff here

Shopping abuse

Today as I was about to go home, it suddenly came across to me that I've not been to the Rimi for a month or so and that I quite willingly want to go there. An awkward desire, gotta admit. So I went there, wandering a bit in a tourist mode, and realized that I don't need anything. I went to the shop to buy nothing. Instead I was looking, looking around and it felt like wherever I would look, my eyesight rushed into the looks of others that were seemingly staring at me right at the same time, which made me feel like an elephant in a glass store which needs to be monitored so that it doesn't break anything. Or maybe it was just an illusion :).

People who have a moral compass don't moralize.

Alleys in Vidzeme

Around Vidzeme there are many old alleys of oaks, birches and lindens many of which have been planted still in German baron times in 19th century (some oak alleys might be even older than that).



Surprisingly there was an Orthodox christian church in a region which doesn't have such a large number of Russian population.

Yet another breakfast song

And... it perfectly fits to all of those ontology profs who always make an example of human being being a subset of animal :).

One of those up against the mirror queries

How does your life relate to what you're doing?

a like

I'm like myself when I like myself

tin food: the good, the bad and the ugly

If you don't say it once you feel like saying it then thereafter it's just a piece of tin food.

TUW approach

Keep it simple - determine the complexity of everything you're about to do.

The gray dune in Pāvilosta

Gray dune in Pāvilosta is a prohibited area because of the unique biotope with many prohibited plant species that you wouldn't find elsewhere. For non-botanic an awkward thing that you can observe there is the grassland covered all over with lichens (that gray thing which the name of the dune arises from), great wild scenery and by turning around - a chance to observe quite a few windsurfers and kiteboarders.
Here's the weed teasing the clouds

The gray scene

A pic from another place nearby - I just liked how the butterflies have chosen the blossoms that contrast their own color.

Here are the rest of the scenes from thereabouts

you're just some racist who can't tie my laces

Sometimes you have to make two steps forward in order to understand what happened two steps back. But mostly it just gets you in woods :).

At the end of the day you're just another guy without a guitar

On integrity

After preparing a T-shirt present for my cousin (and her daughters (who should not know where the characters come from)) who has mathematical grade, I couldn't figure out whether it's nerdy-fun or nerdy-miserable - in either case it was the best I could come about :).

[19:13:57] Mārtiņš says: thesis is no vacation

North fort at Karosta

Karaosta (literally war-port) was a place you wouldn't find on the map during the Soviet times - a whole district of Liepāja was a military base and inhabited by Soviet fleet. After the Red army eventually withdrew in 1994 it has become a free-access place with many disturbing, but in many ways curious scenes - abandoned block houses, haunted Czar time houses, traces of military facilities etc. For me the most gripping site was the North fort - a defensive fortress of Russian empire which was blown up by retreating Russians in 1915 during WW1.
Here's a view from the mall

Baltic sea shows no mercy - those immobile concrete structures lay where they used to be in 1915. Now there's a nice bay :).

Nice...

On posts like that the cannons would be placed on. The name of the site could be concrete bay :).

A peek through the cells,

From the other side the cannons would get supplied.

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