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Memorial photos and my impressions of the Baltic counties trip(2/4) Liga of Latvia

I would like to summarize my impression of Liga city in Latvia based on my pictures as below,

1. Arrived at Liga bus station and move to the house I had stayed.
On Aug 3, I rode a Bus at Haapsalu and the car accedent happened, but the bus move to Liga as scheduled and arrived at Liga bus station one and half hour behind. At that time my smartphone can not access to internet, because the data volume seems to over the limitation of SIM card. I realized that I heavily depend on my smartphone, especially in case of to check the map, to check the route from bus station to the house, to communicate the host of owner of Airbnb. But it is second time for me that the mobile SIM card was stopped. So I take a picture of the screen how to move from bus station. Contact person, pass word of the entrance of the building, etc. 
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2. Check in the house and but ticke to the next destination, Kaunas of Lithuania.
I did reach the house. I did enter the door by pushing password at the from panel of the door. But When I went up to the fourth floor and rang a bell, it was so sad nobody would reply it. After waiting some time, a habitant came up and I asked him this is right building and he said yes. and the room is upper side room. And I had waited for a while,  another lady came up and asked again to her, and she said that the room is not one upper but two upper! Wow! That was right and when I rang the bell of double upper floor, a girl reply soon! Oh god! She explained to me how to use the bed room, bath room, wash room and dinning room. There are several cats and they sleep everywhere they like. They are so cute.

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3. Old town of Liga city. 
After check in I walked the old town of Liga and enjoy the middle age buildings, street and spaces. They are seems to be very vivid.
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4. Park and memorial clock tower from Kobe city.
There are big park between house I stay and bus center. It is very nice to walk through the park. At the entrance of the park a memorial clock monument is set on May 1993, that  Kobe city of Japan hope the peace of Lathovia restoration of Independence.
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Saint Petoro Church was built 1211 and rebuilt three times. The view from the view place at the hight of 72m. We can see Daugava River, Liga TV tower at the south-west direction. The fire occured at the building north-west direction.
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6. Wedding Celemony at the front of the city hall.
Big applause was happend because the wedding celemony began. We can see the beautiful bride and her friends who also very beautiful.

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7. Fish and Tips at burger shop and pople who love smartphone.
I have a small hungary, so decide to have some at burger shop. I found fish and tips are on the list of the restaurant and order it. It was very delicious. Also I found that the many people love to use smartphone, include the waiteress of the restaurant and the people who walk the town.
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8. Latvia military musium.
We can not understand the Latvia without the war history by surround countries. Most damaged wars are the one by Germany at 1917 and one by USSR 1940. After the govern by USSR the Latvia people was let to go East part of USSR. We can find the Japanes Flag that the Latvia doctor who get the Japanes flag from Japanese at Sakhalin. There are many Japanese name include Okinawa name. At the musium there are pictuire that Japanese Emperor and Empress was visitted at 2007.
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Ambassador of Japan to Latvia Seiichiro Otsuka and his wife Makiko water a sakura tree plant in Vermana park in Riga 24 May 2007 ahead of the visit of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in Latvia. The Japanese imperial couple are on their first-ever visit to a former Soviet republics Estonia,Latvia and Lithuania, part of their 10-day European tour that will also take them to Britain.

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9. Medical Vestures Musium
I also visited Medical estures musium because this kind of musium is not popular and I am interested in the medical field because my son is now studying to become medical doctor. The display items of the museum are varied from very acient age, midle age, and modern age. School teaches explained something to their students in their language and I was so impressed that the 8-10 aged school student asked teacher and teacher explain to the students. 

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10. Alverta street of Liga city and the Jugendstil architectures.
Very close to the house I stay, there are beautiful restaurants and buildings along the Alverta street. The building is designed by Jugendstil architecture that is famous as a german design and categorised Art nouveau in French.
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11. Tram train is very common at Baltic countries.
The bus station is 1.5km south from the house I stay and I use tram No.7. The pictuire is No.6 that I passed. I noticed that the five tram drivers and every driver was femail. It seems that the driver is common ocupation for women. And also I found that this station is terminal station. But the tram is not stop and go back but the rail is loop and just go through. I remenber that I saw same seen at Tallinn.
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12. Big Market at Liga near the bus station
The food market is near the bus station and there are lot of food, include meat, vegitable, furuit, bread and so on. I found that most of the market are operated by weman. 
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Continued to Riga, Kaunas and Vilnius.