Song Festival 2013 - Ventspils

Welcome tea: Andrejs, Aina, Inguna, Lasma, Rudolfs, Iveta, Mara

Admiring Ventspils Mascot

Aina & Bonnie at historic cottage

How did we get to Holland?

Train turn-around

Ventspils College

Aina teaches at the Ventspils Music School

Library on Ventspils town square

Centre of Ventspils

Testing the pump organ in historic classroom

Krišjānis Barons, collector of Latvian folk music, attended here

Testing the organ at Livonian Order castle

Ice cream break on Latvia’s major seaport

Inguna, Bonnie & Mara

Our room was just above the front door

Valdis, Rudolfs, Lasma, Janis, Inguna, Iveta, Bonnie, Andrejs, Elza Helena, Aina

Dinner at Skroderkrogs (Taylor’s Pub - the table base is fashioned from sewing machines)

That’s it for Ventspils

Ventspils Music School - had been used as Soviet officers’ club