Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist

I wrote about the Foreign Service assignment process in these blog entries from 3 years ago:  Mid-Level Bidding Game and  Mid-Level Bidding...

  Lielvārde is a little town along the Daugava River about an hour drive southeast of Riga. They have a reconstruction of a wooden castle si...

Siguldas Viduslaiku pils (Castle Of The Livonian Order In Sigulda) is a great place to hang out. The castle compound has some interesting sh...

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...