A Sunny Weekend in Riga

The Easter weekend brought unexpectedly sunny skies and delightfully pleasant weather. With both Friday and Monday off, we students at the Liden & Denz School in Riga had ...

Located in northern Latvia, the city of Valmiera celebrated its 741st birthday last week. It was also the opportunity to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Janis Dalins, a ...

Traveling to Riga is a great opportunity to discover the neighboring countries. While most students go to Latvia and Estonia, Stockholm is in fact a quick getaway from Latvia. ...

One week ago the city of Cesis, in the Vidzeme region, welcomed the Lampa Festival, a yearly conversational forum founded in 2015. [gallery columns="1" size="large" ...

On a cold Saturday morning, I jumped on a bus heading towards the tip of Cape Kolka, on the coast of the Gulf of Riga. As I started to read about the history of Latvia after ...

Лиговать is a verb you could only encounter when celebrating Ligo in Latvia. Ligo (Лиго) is the midsummer feast celebrated in Latvia every year at the end of June. You can ...

As a Liden and Denz student in Latvia, the most common weekend-away trips I have heard about are to Daugavpils, Vilnius or Tallin. However, one of Latvia's hidden gems lies in ...