This will sound like a paid endorsement, it isn’t. It’s heartfelt thanks to Martina and also Gitte. Thank you! I’ve been very humbled by the help we’ve received on our travels. I’ve briefly mentioned Martina from The Travel Brokers in other posts, but now it’s time to sing her praises. She is our ace in the hole. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]