ZIZI?
Are you sure you want to call your store (regardless what you are selling) ZIZI?

My blog readers might be wondering why I am making a post about this store I found in Tallinn Old Town in Estonia, but definitely my French speaking friends and readers will not. Why? Ask one.

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Double Coffee is a coffee house company based in Latvia.

The first Double Coffee bar was opened on 26 September 2002 in Riga. As of today they count 21 in Riga (Latvia), 8 in Vilnius (Lithuania), 5 in Tallinn (Estonia), 5 in Kiev (Ukraine).

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Double Coffee shop in Tallinn Old Town in Estonia

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Rimi Baltic is a major retail operator in the Baltic states based in Riga, Latvia. Rimi Baltic operates 191 retail stores in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and has distribution centres in each country. The stores have different profiles, depending on range of products and size:

* Rimi Hypermarket – hypermarkets
* Rimi – supermarkets
* Säästumarket (in Estonia), Supernetto (in Latvia and Lithuania) – no frills supermarkets

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Ararat is an Armenian Brandy (Cognac) exclusively produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company since 1887. It is made from selected Armenian white grapes and spring water according to traditional methods combined with the finest selection of grapes from the Ararat Valley in Armenia.

“Ordinary Brandies”, aged for 3, 4, 5, and 6 years ensured the merited fame of the Ararat Brandy. The soft flavor of the Brandy, based on carefully selected brands of unique wines and pure spring water, help to create a specific delight, oriental warmth, and unique taste for each type of Ararat Brandy. The “Aged Brandies” of 10, 15, 18, and 20 years all have their own unique taste and specific dark golden color.

Above picture, Ararat brandy as seen promoted in supermarket in Tallinn, Estonia.

The Schengen agreement, which allows passport-free travel across the area, now embraces 24 nations. The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia joined the zone.

For non-EU nationals, a Schengen visa allows travel across all the participating countries.

Thirteen existing EU states have already been part of the Schengen accord as well as two non-EU countries, Norway and Iceland.

The UK and Ireland are not involved in the zone – which embraces 400m people – but they have signed up to agreements on security.

A significant element of the Schengen agreement is the Schengen Information Service (SIS) which features an enormous database in the French city of Strasbourg.

The SIS database enables police in any Schengen state to find out whether a suspect has been involved in any kind of crime across the EU.

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