Few visitors to Latvia make it to the remote northwest of the country. Good roads peter out to gravel as you travel from Ventspils towards Cape Kolka. This is a part of Latvia that was until recently by-passed by modernity. Wooden houses are protected from the fierce Baltic wind by small clumps of trees, and with the coast quickly giving way to marshes inland you have a sense of approaching the very end of the world.
Swedish Lapland
Minority language radio broadcasting takes a step forward in Sweden today, when a new dedicated Sámi language radio station hits the airwaves in the Lapland region of northern Sweden. The Sámi minority has always benefitted from some local language ...