DelfiTV has a beautiful slideshow of the Daugavpils Fortress, also known as the Dinaburg Fortress. This is the exact sort of place I would so love to be loose at with a camera, go see!
Ooh, the moats and the reflections, there’s a lot of photographic potential.
Oh, yeah. I could be there for days, no, probably weeks, taking photos. On the occasions Rick would join me for a walk, he’d always end up having to walk back, because I’m standing way back there, staring at a pile of bricks, or a fence, or something.
An amazing and beautiful place. I’d love to visit.
On the occasions Rick would join me for a walk, he’d always end up having to walk back, because I’m standing way back there, staring at a pile of bricks, or a fence, or something.
He could carry and deliver spare clothing because you’d also be lying flat on your stomach, leaning into walls and pshing halfway through gaps to get the nice angles…
Husbands, also good for: “can you hold this for a second, I really need to change lenses/filters/SD cards”.
rqsays
Come visit! I’ll probably be out there sometime this summer, so I’ll bring pictures back for sure. Sooooo much to stare at.
blfsays
Latvia’s an interesting place, and rq keeps me up to speed on all the interestin’ bits.
Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, jokes about Estonia, potatoes, jokes about Estonian potatoes, and potatoes. Also potatoes and — look, over there, potatoes!
He could carry and deliver spare clothing because you’d also be lying flat on your stomach, leaning into walls and pshing halfway through gaps to get the nice angles…
Yep, yep, yep.
rqsays
Hey, no fair -- we have jokes about potatoes, too, not just Estonians! And dill in everything (not my cup of tea, but yeh, pretty much everything).
Husband treats photographic walks with me much like he treats visits to the bookstore: he’d much rather I did it alone! ;)
blfsays
Wasn’t is Sto Helit that had the cabbages thing?
The Cabbage Research Institute is in Big Cabbage, which is somewhere on the Sto Plains.
Ankh-Morpork is, as I recall, largely surrounded by cabbage fields.
johnson catman says
You must really hate Murrica! That link wasn’t even in English! ;-P
Caine says
Nor the article! :D
Latvia’s an interesting place, and rq keeps me up to speed on all the interestin’ bits.
Ice Swimmer says
Ooh, the moats and the reflections, there’s a lot of photographic potential.
Caine says
Ice Swimmer:
Oh, yeah. I could be there for days, no, probably weeks, taking photos. On the occasions Rick would join me for a walk, he’d always end up having to walk back, because I’m standing way back there, staring at a pile of bricks, or a fence, or something.
An amazing and beautiful place. I’d love to visit.
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk- says
He could carry and deliver spare clothing because you’d also be lying flat on your stomach, leaning into walls and pshing halfway through gaps to get the nice angles…
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk- says
Husbands, also good for: “can you hold this for a second, I really need to change lenses/filters/SD cards”.
rq says
Come visit! I’ll probably be out there sometime this summer, so I’ll bring pictures back for sure. Sooooo much to stare at.
blf says
Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, jokes about Estonia, potatoes, jokes about Estonian potatoes, and potatoes. Also potatoes and — look, over there, potatoes!
A lot like Ankh-Morpork and cabbages…
Caine says
Wasn’t is Sto Helit that had the cabbages thing?
Caine says
Giliell:
Yep, yep, yep.
rq says
Hey, no fair -- we have jokes about potatoes, too, not just Estonians! And dill in everything (not my cup of tea, but yeh, pretty much everything).
Husband treats photographic walks with me much like he treats visits to the bookstore: he’d much rather I did it alone! ;)
blf says
The Cabbage Research Institute is in Big Cabbage, which is somewhere on the Sto Plains.
Ankh-Morpork is, as I recall, largely surrounded by cabbage fields.