Scruffydog777
05-12-2018, 04:29 PM
This post doesn't have a whole lot to do with Alizee, but starts off with something that remotely concerned her. The rest is more or less about 'things' in Latvia that have nothing to do with her so If you're looking for something more Alizeeish, you might be wasting your time with this.
After I arrived in Riga, I ran into some credit card problems which led to some cash problems too. This caused me to have a lot of dealings with one of the women who worked in reception at the hotel I was staying at. Her first name was Inga. I'm guessing she's about 10 years younger than me. She gave me a link to her FB page so you can check it out if you are so inclined after.
She's of Russian ancestry. For those of you who don't know the history of this area during ww2, before Germany invaded Russia, the Russians moved into several of these Balkan countries. They either killed or shipped off to Siberia most of the political and cultural leaders and brought in many Russians. Any native people who didn't vote for Russian candidates in the upcoming elections too, were either shot or on the next train to Siberia. Even many years befire that war, Latvia was a part of Russia for a while. So there are a lot of Russian people in this area.
Now this woman is very proud of being Russian but is very proud of her efforts to rebuild some of the historic sites that were destroyed during the war and now that these countries got their independence several years ago, they are working to restore them. So she said her and her family paid for all the bricks of one of the inside walls that was recently completed of a building that had been popular with a lot of people.
Anyway, our chat led to her other hobby. In her spare time, she's a professional dancer. She often goes to Paris to meet up with different groups for different happenings. I asked her if she ever heard of Gregoire Lyonnet who I thought she'd be more likely to know, but she hadn't. I showed her some videos of A&G's performance in DALS and she was very impressed with Alizee's dancing, but that's about as far as that went.
The rest of this is just kind of an economic report on Latvia that I got from talking to her. She said her and her husband had a business of pressure treating wood. They would ship a lot of it off to the U.K. But the government was running out of money to pay for their retirees pensions, so they've been raising and raising their property taxes. Her husband used to pay her a salary to work as an accountant, but because of the taxes, he can no longer afford to keep her on payroll, so he does that work himself. That's how she wound up getting the job at the hotel.
She spoke of her mother who is living on a pension that can't barely cover her expenses.
She also spokeof the immigration situation. She says they allow about 200 immigrants a year in and pay them about 200 euros a month. She said one of the other benefits they give them is free travel and she said most of them head for Sweden because of the higher amounts of money they are paid. 'She' also brought up the many rapes that happen there and if you follow European news at all, you'll often here of Sweden referred to as the rape capital of the world.
Another thing Inga said, because of the bad financial situation in Latvia with taxes going up and up, a lot of young people are leaving, making the situation worse..
One other thing. On the 4 + hour bus ride to Tallinn, they have movies available and they just so happen to have 'It's a Good Year'. So at least I got to listen to part of Moi Lolita.
2054
https://www.facebook.com/inga.vijupe
After I arrived in Riga, I ran into some credit card problems which led to some cash problems too. This caused me to have a lot of dealings with one of the women who worked in reception at the hotel I was staying at. Her first name was Inga. I'm guessing she's about 10 years younger than me. She gave me a link to her FB page so you can check it out if you are so inclined after.
She's of Russian ancestry. For those of you who don't know the history of this area during ww2, before Germany invaded Russia, the Russians moved into several of these Balkan countries. They either killed or shipped off to Siberia most of the political and cultural leaders and brought in many Russians. Any native people who didn't vote for Russian candidates in the upcoming elections too, were either shot or on the next train to Siberia. Even many years befire that war, Latvia was a part of Russia for a while. So there are a lot of Russian people in this area.
Now this woman is very proud of being Russian but is very proud of her efforts to rebuild some of the historic sites that were destroyed during the war and now that these countries got their independence several years ago, they are working to restore them. So she said her and her family paid for all the bricks of one of the inside walls that was recently completed of a building that had been popular with a lot of people.
Anyway, our chat led to her other hobby. In her spare time, she's a professional dancer. She often goes to Paris to meet up with different groups for different happenings. I asked her if she ever heard of Gregoire Lyonnet who I thought she'd be more likely to know, but she hadn't. I showed her some videos of A&G's performance in DALS and she was very impressed with Alizee's dancing, but that's about as far as that went.
The rest of this is just kind of an economic report on Latvia that I got from talking to her. She said her and her husband had a business of pressure treating wood. They would ship a lot of it off to the U.K. But the government was running out of money to pay for their retirees pensions, so they've been raising and raising their property taxes. Her husband used to pay her a salary to work as an accountant, but because of the taxes, he can no longer afford to keep her on payroll, so he does that work himself. That's how she wound up getting the job at the hotel.
She spoke of her mother who is living on a pension that can't barely cover her expenses.
She also spokeof the immigration situation. She says they allow about 200 immigrants a year in and pay them about 200 euros a month. She said one of the other benefits they give them is free travel and she said most of them head for Sweden because of the higher amounts of money they are paid. 'She' also brought up the many rapes that happen there and if you follow European news at all, you'll often here of Sweden referred to as the rape capital of the world.
Another thing Inga said, because of the bad financial situation in Latvia with taxes going up and up, a lot of young people are leaving, making the situation worse..
One other thing. On the 4 + hour bus ride to Tallinn, they have movies available and they just so happen to have 'It's a Good Year'. So at least I got to listen to part of Moi Lolita.
2054
https://www.facebook.com/inga.vijupe