Monday 23 November 2009

A happy birthday to Latvia – November 18th

November 18th is the 91 st Anniversary of the proclamation of the independent Republic of Latvia


This is very special day for everybody. The morning begins with public worship. After it people go to put flowers at the Freedom Monument and create a flower way and watch parade of Latvian armed forces. This day ends with impressive fireworks. I try to put all this in the video.

One of main symbols of Latvia is the Freedom Monument. There is written TĒVZEMEI un BRĪVĪBAI (for Fatherland and Freedom). In my video you can see the hands of the Freedom Monument, holding aloft three stars representing the three historic regions of the country, and essentially the symbol of Latvia.





5 comments:

  1. happy to see you are still working at your blog, i think you gave us an image of a particular moment in yours young republic life
    Answering to your question about Venice sorry
    I had not mask there (unfortunately) take care Roberto.

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  2. Yes, I like movie making. David advised to make blog in the wordpress.com . It is similar but a little bit complicated. You can try.

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  3. can you send me the link to wordpress ? Why use this worpress instead ?

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  4. You can enter webpage:wordpress.com and create a blog.

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  5. Hi,
    For some reason this took a week to get to me - not your fault - its the internet. Naughty internet!!!!

    What a lovely video (and nice music). It reminded me of my trip to Riga and of the Liberty Statue. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsugden/sets/72157622492159109/

    Wordpress is a little more powerful than Blogger but can be tricky. Go to www.wordpress.com or (I think) www.wordpress.org.

    ;-)

    David

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