Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist

Turaida Castle is a cheap train ride away to Sigulda and a short (and small) bus ride to Turaida Museum Reserve . The castle was start...

We had a wonderful night celebrating a traditional Līgo and Jāņi at Dzegužkalns Park. This picture is as dark as it gets about half an hour ...

Riga is great for green spaces and parks. We have the most amazing park by Vecrīga (Old Riga or Old Town) along the canal circling Riga...

We visited two good museums in Austin. One was the Blanton Museum at the University of Texas which had a good amount of contemporary ...

I've been a Texan since I was 12 but I finally visited the Texas Capitol Building during an R&R from Latvia. Austin has a slogan...

We visited the forest cemetery in Riga on this May 1st holiday. It looks like a great place to rest after you die. It's a grand set...

This is a quick post about the Viking Museum in Stockholm which wasn't there when I lived there. We're in Riga now so we took t...