A blog about exploring.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
