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Latvia

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.

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Daily Estonia Latvia Travel

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 the city a little bit. Mission accomplished. We arrived on Monday pretty worn out but full of great information from Chris our van tour guide. What a great guy and […]

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Daily Latvia Travel

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, poor Lennox is in bed already and it’s only 5pm, little trooper. I did get to go to Wood Religion, couldn’t get in as a walk-in yesterday so booked myself […]

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Latvia Learning Travel

Random Observations

Just a post about random things I’ve noticed while being in Riga. Curly hair is rare. Most women have dead straight, very fine, thin hair. I see a lot of scalps while sitting on the bus. Favourite hair dye is orange. Women dye their hair a lot, and the colour of choice is orange. Bright orange […]

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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 […]