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The Baltics: Guidebooks; Brits in Latvia

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 @ 00:04 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Latvia
Topics:: Governance, Law, Travel, International Relations

Baltic Visitor reviews “the best Baltic guidebooks” and writes about the fate of “the ‘English pig’ who urinated on Latvia’s Freedom Monument.”

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John Oates

Thanks for mentioning my blog – I’m a fan of Global Voices Online, so it’s great to see Baltic Visitor mentioned!

I’ve been a bit slow in updating my blog recently due to moving to a different country, but the plan is to post rather more regularly now.

# 2008-03-6 at 3:17 am

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