…you get them started talking about all the taxes, rules and regulations they have to deal with on a daily basis. Our taxi driver on…
Muze and the housesit in Belgium
Belgium is beautiful in the summer time. And like anywhere else the beautiful hot sunny days are broken up by cool, drizzly days. Our housesit…
Huldenberg, Belgium bike race and carnival
Erik and his family had never been, but we decided we couldn’t miss the half harvest bike race and carnival (I forget its real name).…
I still miss Riga
Riga! You were my first European country, and I miss you a lot. You are a rough-hewn, stubborn work of art. Fiercely private and independent.
The best laid plans
I’m amazed how quickly you can get to know a city riding the bus. We’ve headed out in all four directions from our place on…
Tallinn is a city with many stories to tell
Yikes we’ve been here three weeks and I’ve not written a thing once. My family probably thinks we’ve gone off the grid! Sorry family. We…
Exploring Tallinn’s Old Town and Telleskivi
Thunder! Lightning! It happens nearly every day here. No wonder the most powerful God in pagan religions is the God of thunder. Here’s another daily…
The drive from Riga to Tallinn has lots of trees
Our first week in Tallinn has passed, and we’ve done our obligatory free Old Town tour (like we did in Riga) to get to know…
Two days left in Latvia
I feel so conflicted knowing there’s only one and a half days left here in Riga. Today has been a bit of a sick/rest day,…
Jurmala, and how to feed a family with food needs
Say it with me, “Yur-malla”. Latvian and Spanish are quite similar languages in that you never say a ‘J’ like “jump”, it’s always “yuh”. That…