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Kids Latvia Learning Travel

24 days in, how are we doing?

We’re doing extremely well! The kids are doing great with changes, we’re adapting every single day. In every way possible. From shopping (you know all about that) and cooking (two burners, no oven, 2 pots and one tiny fry pan) to catching the bus and tram. You know about the language issue and food issues. […]

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Europe Latvia Travel

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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Kids Latvia Learning Travel

Settling in.

Last night there was a performance art show happening in the courtyard in front of our house. It was amazing. We’ve watched two people on rollerblades wearing morph suits egging and dry humping each other. They weren’t skilled rollerbladers and kept falling over (but being true performers, they worked that into their act).  That was […]

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Countries Kids Latvia

Food and The kids of Riga

Food is much harder to deal with than we thought. I am happy that we have and indoor market (farmer’s market style) that we can walk to in about 7 minutes.  That’s super important because we are living on cucumbers, tomatoes, pickles (mmmmm, man the pickles!), eggs, potatoes and whatever meat we can figure out how […]

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Kids Latvia Learning Travel

The Riga Zoo, A Gallery

On Saturday we all went to the Riga Zoo. It was really wet and cold, but that didn’t stop us! Check out a few snaps below, click on one to open a lightbox/photo gallery. Gallery