Poverty
On the country side in Latvia and Lithuania it is hard to see any trace of the exceptional growth rates that the Baltic countries have shown for the last decade. Riga is of course a busy city with a lot of construction. One third of Latvias population is there and I would guess that most of the growth is there as well. For the rest it really looks very poor. Houses are often in a deplorable shape. Agriculture machinery is mostly very old, save for the few farmers that sports a fancy tractor (most of the time pulling some very old machinery)....
What is nice is that there are stork nests everywhere. For some reason I can't remember the storks did very well East of the iron curtain but almost disppeared on the West side. Perpahs somebody can explain that (Eva?).
What is nice is that there are stork nests everywhere. For some reason I can't remember the storks did very well East of the iron curtain but almost disppeared on the West side. Perpahs somebody can explain that (Eva?).
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