Surprisingly, this mural ad from early 1990s has remained all these years on quite a busy Lāčplēša street in Riga. It's not the best place for an ad as it is not that easy to spot it, maybe that explains why nothing else has been painted over it. The mural bears "Interlatvija - your loyal associate in international business" with a 6-digit telephone number (nowadays numbers have 8 digits).
Soon the destruction of the old main building of postal service in Riga will be completed and a new glass building erected.
Prypiat was founded in 1970 so that workers and their familities of infamous Chernobyl Nuclear plant have a town to live, because the actual town Chernobyl is quite a small village and a few miles further away from the plant than Prypiat. Prypiat's population had been around 50,000 prior to the Chernobyl disaster. The town now is abandoned and you cross three military check points before you get in. The radiation is still a few times more the average.
The tall building on Zaķusala island in Riga hosts National Television of Latvia. It was build in 1986 and there are quite a few floors where the life since that has not changed significantly. There's is a plan to move the television to a new building in the future.
While walking around backyards in a small town Durbe in West Latvia I noticed that someone has washed almost the full set of local team's football kit and taken it out to dry.
Old doors can still be put in use by building a small house or at least a wall. The photo taken in Āgenskalns district of Riga.
