Monthly Archive: February 2022

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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...

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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...

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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,...