Raimonds Dombrovskis – those affected by Jukona or Vanagkalns. A skier from birth

Vidzeme is dear to me because here, more than in other places in Latvia or the world, you can observe a very expressive change of four seasons. The wiser I become, the more I enjoy the feeling of spring (at the right time – so as not to melt my tracks two days before the ski festival.) Touches of summer winds, dew in the grass and a sauna porch. Then the fever of waiting for the colouring of the leaves and the first good snow. I like it, for sure.

Although I am a person of the Soviet era with all the emotional side effects of those times, I think that I usually do what I like. Well, what should an ex-world-class biathlete do in the autumn of his life? Find a place that usually has more snow or where it lasts longer, make tracks and ski them. I like it, I can offer it to others and when guests come, an event like a meeting takes place. And they turn out good in Vanagkalni.

Those who are going to come to me must be able to perceive the ORIGINALITY of my small business. It is an environment created by me, I am the master in it and I will probably have some requirements. And those will have to be observed. I need the dogs to be obedient and the children to hear what is said to them.