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What’s useful, what’s not and what we wish we had. (So far.)

What we use all the time Reusable shopping bags. The Envirosax brand. I’m glad at the last minute we threw two in our bag. We use them ALL the time. I like these ones as they fit over my shoulder well, they’re sturdy, hold a lot, easy to wash (necessary with filled with spilled honey and […]

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Europe Latvia Learning Travel

Living in each other’s pockets

How has it been living in such close proximity for almost a month? Not as bad as I feared, but not as great as it could be, but we’ll get there. The kids have been awesome considering they have no space. Neither do Nat and I for that matter. In fact the kids have more […]

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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 aside we had a rough Saturday, we slept in and realised we couldn’t go sightseeing outside of town so we decided Sunday we’d go to Jurmala and that Akvaparks Alice […]

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Europe Latvia Travel

Walking around Riga, the Riga Tour

On Wednesday We had a walking tour of Riga We had been here for 4 days and we were so ready for a bit of Riga; our neighborhood Angenskalns is rustic, picturesque, and historic, but not heaps to see but houses. However, you take the 21 bus in to town and boom, plenty of history; […]

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After Estonia we're going to….

A. Hungary B. Belgium C. Greece D. All of the above. Thanks to trustedhousesitters.com we have a housesit assignment with a Briard dog called Muze in….. Belgium! We had talked about Greece, we were about to pull the trigger on Hungary, but in a random “How about Belgium?” moment, I looked up housesitting assignments and […]