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Christmas Shopping in Latvia - everything you need for the perfect holidays

Dec 17, 2009
By Layla Banks

’TIS THE SHOPPING SEASON: Little Santas will join sweets, meats, spirits, handmade crafts and other gifts in shoppers’ baskets with retailers counting on holiday spending to salvage this year’s sales.
RIGA - The weather outside is colder, the fragrant evergreens begin appearing in the retail lots in Riga, and that can only mean one thing: get ready to eat, drink and be merry! Christmas and New Year’s traditions are very important in Latvian culture. In the distant past, the Baltic nation used to celebrate Christmas three days in a row, from Dec. 24 to Dec. 26, as evidenced in the old daina (Latvian folk song): “Waiting for Christmas time, people are brewing the beer. Three ...

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