Don't send flowers - bring them yourself!
One of the many charming aspects of Latvian society is that people in the cities seem to spend an inordinate amount of time wandering around with armfuls of flowers - one can only imagine that the local floriculture industry must be very profitable!There are flower stalls everywhere, and the variety of flowers on offer is amazing, ranging from exotic imported offerings to more old-fashioned (and, at least to my mind, infinitely more charming) flowers such as lily-of-the-valley and lilac. It is apparently poor form to visit someone’s home without a gift of flowers, and it is delightful to watch the casual grace with which women and even small children bear often sizeable bunches and bouquets.Even Baltic men carrying flowers do so with an easy elegance and are enviably free of the sheepish air that their flower-bearing peers elsewhere seem to sport – perhaps because they are not offering...
