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Adam Rocks' Driver UNIQUEADAM ROCKS’ DRIVER RIGA Discover new urban playgrounds ABSOLUTELY ME This ADAM ROCKS POCKET ROCKET New Generation Power Table of contents Editorial . 3 EXPLORE A NEW PLAYGROUND Latvia . 4 Riga . 11 Around Riga . 23 Rock Shopping tips in Riga . 25 Maps of Riga & surroundings . .. 30 Remember beingaround a child and discovering somethingRiga new? A new object, a new skill – or, best of all, a new playground? When you grow up, discoveries like this become rarer, but the thrill never goes away. THIS ADAM ROCKS Riga is that kind of discovery: even though it’s been the capital of Information overview . 34 an EU member state for more than ten years, it’s still an undiscovered playground. Technical data . 38 This is why we chose to present you our new Opel ADAM ROCKS here in New generation 3-cylinder engine by Dr Matthias Alt . 40 Riga rather than in, say, Nice or Barcelona: the ROCKS adds an adven- turous spirit to the ADAM family, inviting you to discover and explore new ADAM’s individualized production in Eisenach . 42 urban playgrounds. Instructions for BringGo navigation system . 44 Like any other ADAM, the ROCKS is highly individualized: customers can design their very own car, and virtually no two ADAM ROCKS are the same. We invite you to also design your route to explore Riga at the wheel of ON THE ROAD AGAIN your ADAM ROCKS. This magazine should help you get more familiar with the city and prepare your own discovery program. ADAM ROCKS photo gallery . 48 Enjoy the way this ADAM ROCKS you! Notebook . 64 USB card . 72 * Hello in Latvian All 40 Opel ADAM ROCKS in the test fleet in Riga are different from each other. They are marked SPECIAL Thanks with a QR code that can be used to identify and download their unique specifications. This one gives you access to the catalogue of all 40 cars. You may also use the following link: This magazine was made Our thanks go to our graphic Millions of thanks also go to And of course, we all thank www.opel-events.com/ADAMROCKSSPECS in-house by the Opel Com- team in Zürich: Lukas, who our editorial partners who’ve Signe, our pretty, blond guide munications Team, but it has left his Spanish beach to take corrected, translated and in Riga, who helped us to also given some folks gray over from Tobias – Hardy, who adapted all texts, Thorsten discover so many places that hair ( those who are lucky and finally thought that making and Bernadette for the Ger- no tourist guide would ever still have hair), and been the another Opel magazine man version, Hana for the En- mention, and showed us the 12 reason for sleepless nights would be more fun than lazing glish one - and Stefan forever. different places presumably and extravagant coffee con- around in Fiji, and Adrian, who After you have read so much making the one and only, very sumption on the part of many heroically survived it all. about Riga, we hope you can best hamburger in Riga. friends and partners. www.source.ch visit it soon! CHAPTER ONE Welcome to Riga If you haven’t been to Riga be- fore, this is the right time to be here. And if you already have, this time it will be even better. Latvia joined the eurozone in 2014, making it easier to travel, and being the European capital of culture unleashed some seri- ous creative energies. How ever, what hasn’t changed is the splendid and incredibly diverse nature, and in Riga it’s closer than in any other European capital. We, Jekaterina Pogrebnaya and Olga Procevska, live in Riga and we love Riga, and we are not afraid to say it loud and often. We love Riga for singing trams during the song festival, we love it for people who can unite in a chain to pass the books to the new library building, we love it for Sundays when it is so homey you can accidentally walk out of the house in slippers, we love it for early morning swims and sunset runs. We love it. And you’ll see why. 4 ADAM ROCKs – UniqUe 9/2014 EXPLORE A NEW PLAYGROUND 5 We call it mountain Small, but widespread Latvia isn’t crowded . It is one of the least populated countries in Europe, Born at times Carmine, All baltic, with less than two million inhabitants . However, it has many representatives of war white, all different abroad: the first mass emigration took Coastal nations often happen to have place during the Second World War, interesting histories . Latvia’s ports and Carmine then many left the country after the rivers have always served as important collapse of the Soviet Union, followed trade routes – first for the Vikings, then by more after the country’s accession the Teutonic Order, and the Swedish Latvia is a boutique-sized country . It’s only approximately 64,000 km2 large, to the EU; the last mass emigration and Russian empires . The independent which makes it five times smaller than Germany and almost ten times smaller than took place after the economic crisis in and democratic Republic of Latvia was France . It’s even smaller than Iceland! But it is one-and-a-half times bigger than 2008 . The Latvian diaspora is esti- established in 1918 while the First World the Netherlands and 1,468 times bigger than the Vatican . Everything’s relative on mated to be between 210,000 and War was still underway . In just a few the vertical scale too – Latvia’s highest point, Gaiziņš mountain (yes, we call it a 370,000 people . years, the founding fathers managed mountain) is just 311 metres high, but Lithuanians, whose country is even flatter, to gain international recognition and The flag of the Republic of Latvia is First, don’t mix them up, even if they find it hilly enough to come here en masse for downhill skiing . created what is now one of the oldest one of the oldest in Europe . It was first sound similar: the “Baltics” are not existing constitutions of Europe, adopt- mentioned in the 13th century Livoni- the “Balkans” . Second: Baltics is not a ed in 1922 . It was suspended upon the an Chronicle, where it is described as country, but a region of three countries incorporation of Latvia into the Soviet appearing in a battle over Riga . Its first by the Baltic Sea: Lithuania, Latvia and Union, before being re-established on years as a national symbol were quite a Estonia . The relationship between the Almost May 4, 1990 . battle too, because the necessary fab- three has always been sincere and lov- ric was in short supply during the War ing: that’s why Lithuanians call Latvians 40 religions Seasonal mood of Independence . It took some time to “horse heads” and Estonians think they Most of the people in Latvia are reli- establish the proper tone, proportion have six toes . gious twice a year, on Christmas and and recognition . Now the most impor- Easter, but religious leaders are still tant thing to know is that it’s carmine, quite influential in public life . Officially, Latvia not red like the Austrian flag, which, no there are almost 40 religious denomi- doubt, is also nice and old . nations in Latvia, but only four of them in Europe – Lutherans, Catholics, Orthodox and “Better Out Than In” – according to Old Believers – have significant num- Banksy . Latvians, however, thought bers of followers . that being in is better than out, and joined the European Union in 2004 . At that time Latvia was regarded as one of the most euro-sceptic countries in the region, but despite this, almost 70% of the voters said “Yes” to the referen- The maiden on the coin Multi- lingual dum on the accession . In 2015 Latvia In the early 1920s, Latvia came close to calling its money franks, Out of all the Baltic states, Latvia has will take over the presidency of the EU . but after a period of heated discussion the decision was made the biggest proportion of bilingual in- Latvia is really serious about the duty, to name it lats and santims . The government also decided the habitants: approximately 40% of peo- Attention, this is a vital piece of information to understand a Latvian person! even though it’s going to last only six five lat coin should feature the head of a maiden, who should be ple in Latvia use two different languag- When it’s rainy, a smiling person is considered to be a weirdo, but when the sun is months – but that is still longer than a symbol of freedom and chas- tity . Zelma Brauere, a 29-year-old es (mostly Latvian and Russian) every shining in the clear sky, happiness just hangs in the air . People who only yesterday the Olympics or a World Cup . philologist and worker at the money printing house, fitted this description day . Also, more than 50% are fluent in were gloomy will become your best friends . Please do not be harsh in your judg- perfectly . She lived until 1977, long enough to see the replacement of lats with the at least one other foreign language, ment of this behaviour – we see the sun only 72 days per year! Honestly, one must Soviet ruble . But her image returned to the coins in 2014: after the introduction of the most common being English and be a philosopher or have an excellent sense of humour to get through the grey, the euro, her profile was chosen to represent Latvia on one and two-euro coins .
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