Daugava river

Ice fractured and going towards sea.

Winter effects

Immense icicles are one of the hazards you should be aware when walking these streets.

nICE weather

When it is icy, it is better to slow down a bit.

Thaw

The temps are above zero even during the night, I guess, for the fist time this year.

Rail Bridge

Ice covers river Daugava. After many years of mildness Europe gets proper winter.

Icicle

You watch, when they come down.

Sent in by Edgars Lubarts.

Kisezers

While Daugava river and Riga Gulf is ice free Kisezers lake is melting slowly. I wonder who owns these floating premises.

Daugava waiting for its Darling

The water transport has always been a part of Riga infrastructure, but far not good at all to my mind. The old river buses of soviet times really are metal scraps, that have become inefficient and unfriendly to nature long time ago. So couple years ago a new company KMK started its struggle against beaurocracy to bring water transport in Riga canal and Daugava up to new and much more pleasant levels. Click on the post title to find out more.

Riga Canal

Water and ice is like a magnet for some kids... even if it is dangerous.

Pernavas iela (street)

We put a car in a car park on Čaka and Pernavas street corner and thought we will walk to the Daugavas stadium, but didn't get there because there was another skate park half way through.

Ice Cube

Its kind of cool to have an Ice Cube in the middle of a central City park (Kronvalda parks), isn't it? I guess you do not know what I am talking about, well have a closer look at a writing on the right rooftop:)