Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist

Daugavgrīvas Cietoksnis  is a fortress originally built in the Swedish Livonia in the 17th century. There's more history at the link but...

Jelgava is a Latvian city about an hour from Riga. The nice place to hangout in Jelgava is an island named Pasta salā. No, this has nothing ...

Tērvetes dabas parks is a nature park but there's some really cool stuff in it which fully justifies the drive there and small price of ...

I love castles! This is a really cool reconstruction of a 12th century wooden castle. It's a unique experience to wander around inside w...

The final day of our road trip along the Latvian coast was to a city in Lithuania. Klaipėda is another coastal port city not too far over th...

Our third day of slowly exploring the Latvian coast had us staying in a riverside AirBnB in Užava. There's a beach there where the littl...

We pulled off at random spots to check out the nature during our drive from Kolka to Ventspils. That tactic turned a one hour drive into a s...