Tallinn Photo Library
We just took a quick trip to visit the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. Actually, it was our second visit to this city, and although it seems like a lot has changed during the 12-or-so...
Blog Posts
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The Latvian Song and Dance Festival
Christina and I recently attended a concert of the General Latvian Song and Dance Festival. It’s an extremely important week-long cultural event held every five years in Riga. All three Baltic states have similar...
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It’s been a bumpy ride…
Sorry for the long absence. I think it’s fair to say the honeymoon phase of our relationship with Latvia is over. We both still really enjoy many aspects of the country, but being an...
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Latvia’s Premier Beach Resort
Huh? Beach resorts in Latvia? It’s true! Now that it’s the middle of winter and the ground is covered with a white blanket, I thought I’d reminisce a little about our summer and fall...
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The Airport Story… one year later
Randy and I have told some of you The Airport Story but probably not in depth and probably not from the angle of my sometimes crippling anxiety. This story spans over many hours and...
Latvian Music – Part 1
My love of music probably started when I was 8 or 9 years old when I was gifted a small transistor AM radio and a set of cheap headphones. I would stay up late...
Latvian Beer
Part One – 3 Darks After 8 months of surveying the frothy beverage landscape in Latvia I think I’ve come to a conclusion: Latvian beer is easily just as good as beer in America...
Līgo, Latvia’s midsummer holiday
In my book, a nation that creates a 2-day holiday to drink beer, have sex, and celebrate the summer solstice is clearly doing something right. Conventional wisdom attributes the high number of March babies...
Easter in Latvia
Like Christmas, we spent Easter at Pavasari homestead. In Latvia, Easter, or Lieldienas, is a 4-day holiday beginning with Good Friday and ending on Monday with Otrās Lieldienas, or second Easter. but first… Bērzu...
Mūsu Dzīvoklis – Our apartment
After spending our first month in an AirBnB in the Centrs commercial district of the city, we moved to an apartment in the suburban Juglas neighborhood of Rīga. Old town “Vecrīga” along the Daugava...
Does Latvia have tornadoes?
We woke up this (December) morning to the sound of sirens. Sadly, my first thought was “air-raid siren!” Surely, Russia isn’t attacking the Baltic states… is it? Christina complained briefly about it sounding like...
Juglas neighborhood
We rented an apartment “dzīvoklis” in the Juglas neighborhood of Rīga – see our post about the apartment. It’s in a residential, middle-class, area on the north side of the city with parks, forests,...
