Market in Liepaja

Market in Liepaja, just like every market in Latvia, attracts with cheap food produced by poor country people and some extra shit, such as socks and batteries usually sold by old grannies and daddies that dress like beggars and smell of piss. Saleswomen in market are of special category. Not all, of course, but most women look like butch type of lesbians (well, some look just like old masculine wankers). Even those with cute faces try to use the worst clothes they can find, so that they fit with overall dress code of market.

Beautiful saleswoman is selling some apples and smoking a fag

Now about those people who smell of piss. Usually it’s not cos they live on streets, most likely they have a flat or house, but it is expected that they live alone, so no-one can help them to wash clothes or take a bath. It is also truth that after a while people don’t recognize their smell, so probably these grannies don’t realize when it’s time to take a shower and change underwear. Surprisingly, these people very often sell you bras and shampoos.

Hey, granny, when was the last time you changed your panties?

Market is also a place that hasn’t changed over these times. People, goods and equipment looks just like 20 years ago. It is an interesting journey back to the past. Of course, I am talking here about people who sell food (vegetables and meat), cos all sock and battery ladies is a post-soviet production – desperate pensioners who lack money and thus sell some shit to earn extra pennies for bread and vodka.

By selling onions probably she earns less than 100 $ per month

So, forget museums of ethnography, go to market to see how people lived 20 and more years ago. Most food is ecological and “organic”, the only thing is to be careful with flowers. If you see an alcoholic selling just a few flowers it means that most likely he had stolen them from some grave in a cemetery near-by.

No more Riga

We have already spoken about crazy bus drivers in Riga, but they are not the only ones that make traffic mad. There are a lot of young kids aged between 18 and 25 that drive like James Dean before death. Forget cyclists, if you have a bicycle you are on a suicide mission. If you are a pedestrian, don’t think that you rule the streets. If there’s green light or “zebra” it doesn’t mean you gonna cross the street safely. Latvians also like to use car after a few beers, so there are crashes everyday. Lot of car drivers are considered to be “aggressive”, but what makes it worst, there are no policemen to take care of them (police in Latvia only controls speed driving).

This morning one more cool driver showed his skills and drove into the sign of Riga just outside the capital. Now it says “Rga” and probably city will spend again half a million quid to fix the letter “i” of which 80% of money will disappear in some corrupt deal. As always.