Your #morningcalm from Riga is the splendid Riga Castle on an overcast autumn morning.

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Your #morningcalm from Riga is the Hobbit door under the main staircase of the Latvian National Art Museum.

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Your #morningcalm from Riga is a glimpse of the storage section in the art museum.

Latvians against leaving the Istanbul Convention.

Your #morningcalm from Riga is a serious red lion.

And if you didn’t get to the train station twice a day for a week to register your number in line inked on your hand, you’d never get your train tickets south for your vacation.

How lovely to read about one’s church in The New Yorker: In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The venue was a disused Anglican church where Lediņš had been hosting a discothèque…

Your #morningcalm from Riga is a calm little street.

Your #morningcalm from Riga is Riga Castle all decked out in the national flag colors, ready for Republic Day.

Your #morningcalm in Riga is a class trip to the art museum.

Very sad news: the marvelous non-conformist artist Erik Bulatov died yesterday.

Your #morningcalm from Riga is a pretty city house with the cafe Hedgehog in the Fog (the name of one of the best animated films of all time).

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Today is Latvia’s Remembrance Day for those who died fighting for the country’s independence in 1919. The entire city comes out to place candles on the walls of Riga Palace.

Your #morningcalm in Riga is an image of Bearslayer Day at the castle last night.

Your #morningcalm from Riga is St Gertrude Church, taken when I dashed into the middle of the street in a lull in the traffic.

Your #morningcalm from Riga is the whimsical blue birdhouse tree. I’ll be traveling for a few weeks - look forward to more calm in the morning when I return!