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📸 🇱🇻 Photo Essay: Latvia
I take a lot of pictures when we travel. A LOT of pictures. Probably approaching an annoying amount of pictures. But when I post them, I try to curate. I choose the top 10-15 photos that represent the day and edit them. Because no one wants to see 113 un-edited vacation photos. No one. After our…
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🍷🇱🇻 What to Drink in Riga: A Sip-by-Sip Guide to Latvian Drinks Culture
I’ve been studying wine and spirits for over two decades. One of the things I’m most interested in when we travel is what I call drinks culture – what can you learn about a country through their cultural drinking habits and traditions. I’ve been known to order several drinks off a menu – just so…
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🇱🇻 Eating Our Way Through Riga: A Latvian Food Tour
Today, we walked through the Riga Central Market on a Latvian food tour with our lovely guide, Ilze. She guided us through the market, gathering up typical Latvian foods for us to try at the end of our tour. The market is fascinating architecturally – it’s housed in five relocated German zeppelin hangars that were…
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🇱🇻 Exploring Riga: Art Nouveau & Soviet Architecture
Exploring Riga today – on a walking tour. I am so freaking cold. All of these Baltic women walking around in furs are starting to look pretty smart. You know what would be really handy? If menopausal women could summon a hot flash on demand. Sidebar: Breakfast fish (Baltic herring) is tough to face first…