Hi, its interesting to hear that and yes ive noticed the floor thing as well. To me its the other way around. I dont understood what ground floor is, i mean its obviously a floor so it counts and its number 1. Its the first one there is. The same thing when some people refer to houses with mansard or attic floor, they usually exclude it. They may say that its a two story house when obvioulsly there are windows on the third floor as well. Its just a floor and nothing else so i dont why people say it, it sounds like they dont talk realistically when they say it. And the food well there are several options there, if you like cold soups you can get the cold beat soup, totally vegetarian. My girlfriends favorite is potatoe pancaces, she is a vegetarian and thats totally vegetarian. There are other traditional pancakes without meat as well. You can eat whats called pīrāgi with sauerkraut, very vegetarian. You can eat grūbu dishes, also vegetarian. You can also make bukstiņputra and do a vegetarian version. You can eat bread soup, totally vegetarian. Chease salad is nice. In fact you can just eat saurekraut with potatoes, nice meal and totally vegetarian. Its just some of the foods that quickly came to mind. Probably there is quite a bit more. Sounds like perhaps you havent explored or asked enough. And the side walks in riga like in many other cities are very wide, just walk. No need to battle for anything, enough space for everyone

03:05 You must go straight on your side and not give way to passing people even if means to bump into other people. I am 2-3x heavier than an average person and it's a win every time for me. And other party learns good manners through the pain. That's the best way of learning.

I'm from the UK and the ground floor is the ground (i.e. zero). Latvia calling ground floor the first floor was confusing for me too, and took me a long time to get used to. Also the second hand clothes shops are very good. I like them as you are able to find not just cheap clothes (Latvia has very overpriced new clothes), but you can find items that no-one else is wearing as I believe the second hand clothes are imported from other countries such as the UK as I have found new items in the second hand shops still with their UK price tags attached.

Thank You. Much love to our Polish friends.

Sidewalks. When I first came to Latvia there was another American on my team who was at least 6.3 feet. He would hold his place in the right side of the sidewalk and watch people bounce off him because he didn’t budge.

@bitezumm

3 күн бұрын

It's probably because not that many ppl drive, so they don't apply car rules to sidewalks.

Good video I was thinking about retiring there I'm from the USA.

It's common misconception, that Latvians don't have their native swear words. We don't simply use them much, so many just don't know them. It's not nice to be vulgar in our culture!

@dreamthedream8929

6 күн бұрын

Actually a lot of younger generation Latvians don't even speak or don't know how to speak their own native language purely. What comes out is a mix of Latvian English and Russian. It probably was not like that with Latvians 120 years ago, they knew how to express themselves in their own language without using others

As a latvian myself, i got surprised by sidewalk manners, after moving to live in the city. And it got worse in past 10 years. I never really was taught, i just knew, that it is appropriate to give some way to a couple passing by. Or older people. Moms with strollers.. Normally, everyone should give some space when passing by, with moderation. But no. There are so many of those angry 'ladies', yes - elder woman mostly, who will go straight with stone face, like no one is coming. At least it is easier now, because population on streets is so much, much less. Now days, it starts to get me angry, when i see bunch of students walking straight on to me. I'm getting tougher, and don't let that happen. There is no way i will step in the grass.

@dreamthedream8929

6 күн бұрын

I dont get it, side walks in riga are really wide and enough space for everyone. What's the big deal about it? Me and my girlfriend walk a lot and never had any such problems. Just walk

Latvia is Northern Europe . That’s why you have a different tings

I liked this video:))))

What is it with this Lido thing?

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I live in Riga

There are swear words in Latvian. The thing that many Latvians use Russian swear words is another story. And younger people use English words...

@118Shadow118

19 күн бұрын

Latvian swear words just aren't as punchy, that's why we don't use them that much

@evaldslandra1582

18 күн бұрын

@@118Shadow118 Latvian swear words aren`t vulgar.

@KALNINApirdiens

8 күн бұрын

Beidz muldēt, deģenerāt! Īsti latvieši lieto krievu lamuvārdus💪

Latvia is heavily influenced by German culture, and it can be seen in the language, kitchen, traditions, etc From the end of the 12th century to the December 1939 Baltic Germans played a significant role in the country. It all can be seen and today in Latvian culture and traditions, people, in the way some things are. Latvian are not a Slavic people, even no similar to Lithuanian people (however Latvian people also Baltic) so there will be a significant difference with Poland. Perhaps, you would find more similarities with Poland in Latgale, Vidzeme (former Livland) has much more similarities with Estonia, and Livland always has been the centre core of what you call Latvia today.

@lukturs

6 күн бұрын

Atradis centru,saproties...centrs protams ir Zemgale ar Kurzemi,un tā arī nav viendabīga.Vienā galā līvi,otrā leišmale.

About vegetarian not correct ... Lido has vegetarian burger and other items as any body else... the same goes for most popular fast food chain Hesburger (the cheapest one) beside very popular as well MC ... Even Narvesen has vegetarian offers (cheap hot dog/burger/press/drinks selling trade points) Very popular are Kebab places ... strongly suggest visit Ausmeņa Kebabs (local favorite, Riga and Rezekne) and they have vegetarian offers as well. Lido is traditionally place to bring foreigners (interior is suited for that and I would call the place as tourist trap) ... personally not like food quality there (the same as office bistro at the best), it is not great and they have restaurant prices ... I known better places for that money(food/interior), personally with family will not visit that place, not worth (food quality is under level for restaurant) ... Any bistro in office public/buildings has daily vegetarian offers, the same goes for any office food subscription services ...

@dreamthedream8929

6 күн бұрын

Even latvian traditional food has many vegetarian options, bread and cold beat soup quickly come to mind. A lot of mushroom dishes as well. Mushrooms are vegetarian right?

@occasionalquest

5 күн бұрын

@@dreamthedream8929 cold beat soup is not traditional for Latvia ... It is Polish/Soviet origin ... Mushroom dishes is mainly seasonal thing and it is luxury item unless family did not collect them themselves ... and mushrooms dishes is not very popular ...

@dreamthedream8929

5 күн бұрын

@@occasionalquest cold beat soup is very traditional in latvia, the originl doesn't matter. It's also very traditional in lithuania. It has established itself among the traditional foods and can be commonly found in traditional latvian food restaurants. But these are just a few vegetarian options that came to mind. If you search you probably can find even more. Sounds like the person in the video has not asked or searched. She only mentioned potatoes. Although even potatoes are done in many ways and can be delicious and a good meal by itself

@occasionalquest

5 күн бұрын

@@dreamthedream8929 Traditional Latvian restorant do not exist ... Tradicionally city food is Polish/German ... Potatoes in Lido are trash ... Lido is poorly executed traditional Polish street food ... or the latest they try to switch to Hamburgers ... again not great ...

@dreamthedream8929

5 күн бұрын

@@occasionalquest there are plenty of traditional latvian food restaurants. i was in one yesterday and yes my vegetarial girlfriend had a vegetarian meal there. lido is good but there are many others. again the origin is not relevant here. it is about how much the particular food has established itself in the food culture in that country over time. Those are Latvian household foods that have passed from from one generation to the next. Latvians dont eat burgers in such a way but something called šašliki very much could be called traditional. Again the origin does not matter here as there are plenty of traditional foods around the world that originally were introduced by people from somewhere else. Even ingredients, for example tomatos and potatoes didnt even exist in Europe for a very long time and now there are so many traditional foods across Europe that use those ingredients