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On the hunt for hipsters
In a recent survey by skyscanner.net, Miera iela, Riga, topped the list of the most hipster neighbourhoods in the world. Miera iela (or Peace Street) beat off competition from Williamsburg in New York, Kreuzberg in Berlin and Mission District in San Francisco. Here’s how … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Humor, Humour, Riga, Travel
Tagged cake, Dad Cafe, expat, humor, Humour, Laima factory and museum, Latvia, Latvian buildings, Latvian health and safety, Miera iela, Most hipster neighbourhood, skyscanner.net, tea, travel, trees, weather
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Last Day in Latvia
Don’t worry, I’ll be back. I’m just going to work at a summer school in England for the next five weeks. This has me feeling slightly nostalgic about my little life in Latvia. So instead of packing, organising documentation, cleaning … Continue reading
Road Trip! (Part two)
We rolled into Liepāja later that evening, with the GPS announcing ‘You have reached your destination’, in the middle of a street that was most definitely not our destination. So we ignored it and kept driving, patting ourselves on the back when we … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Humour, Travel
Tagged Beaches, Brunch, Dutch People, expat, Humour, Latvia, Latvian people, Liepaja, Pavilosta, Relationships, Rental cars, Road Trips, Roads in Latvia, Summer, Tanning, travel, weather
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Walking on sunshine-y ice
Basking in my post ‘Visitor From Home’ glow, having eaten my own body weight in bacon and with enough Irish sausages in my fridge to open my own butcher’s, it seems like the right time for a more mellow, feel-good post. … Continue reading
Snow Days No More
One of the main differences between Irish people and Latvian people is that an Irish person will tell you it’s ‘Baltic’ when it’s around 10 degrees celsius; a Latvian will tell you that it’s warm when it’s -10 with a … Continue reading
