As Erma Bombeck once said, when you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home. And so it is. We’ve hit summer solstice and are on the cusp of the two day holiday – celebrated throughout the Baltics with bonfires and flowered headgear and liters of alcohol (per Read More

We arrive on June 14 – a solemn day of remembrance in Latvia and the Baltics in general. Everywhere we see people carrying flowers to the towering Freedom Monument to commemorate the Soviet mass deportations of June 14, 1941 – a few months after the USSR annexed the Baltic states, Read More

Next to our hotel is a small cafe/bar (The Love Story) which shares space with a jeweler (young, blonde handsome, multi-lingual) who works in a glass box when he is not hopping out to mingle with the clientele – mostly well-heeled young women. It does seem strange to have a Read More