Cycling for Libraries 2012, Day 3.
We started today, morning 9.30, took off from the dormitory.
Fantastic. Police escort, sirens, waving.
We had a really bumpy ride all on the cobblestone.
Stuff were falling, but it was fantastic.
We had no rush. Police escort, motorcycles, nice cavalcade.
Everyone in the city saw that we were coming in.
We took a little shortcut.
We're here waiting for the local group.
Some Latvians will be joining us here.
From my understanding, there's a lot of press here as well.
You can probably see behind us.
The culture minister and some other big wigs are on their way as well to welcome us.
It'll be nice to see them and this gives them a little visibility of what we're doing.
It's starting to get hot again.
We were hoping for the cooler weather, but I think we'll do okay.
There's a lot of clouds here, but we're excited.
Everyone's still a long day yesterday.
It was really long. People didn't get to sleep until probably after midnight.
Everyone's in a good mood, surprisingly still, and we're going to have a good time.
This group is really popular. Everyone's taking part in this.
The National Library, if you see, there's a couple of our participants up there
really giving us some visibility.
One of our organizers, I think it's Sebastiano is up there
and one of the local participants.
I mean, we're really getting out there with the visibility.
Thank you.
Let's call Black Hedelma Bart.
Yes.
Hello, everyone. I'm Palash and currently I'm in Riga.
Well, this is my bicycle. It's a sports bicycle from Bianchi.
I bought it in Finland last year in the month of September
and if I'm not wrong, I have already rode around 1000 km with this bicycle.
Well, it's a pretty new bicycle and it's really nice.
It gives really good performance and I like the speed that it gives.
Well, in this trip, this bicycle has really helped me a lot.
It's quite comfortable riding on this bike.
Well, in the beginning, I was a bit doubtful. Should I rent a bicycle
or should I take my bicycle with me?
But then I decided to take mine because I feel that wherever I go,
if I ride a bicycle, it should be my bicycle, not a rented bicycle.
And well, till now, it has been quite fun riding with this bicycle.
Everything is going great with this and I hope there won't be any problems
until the end of this journey.
