Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist

  To honour the dead and as a warning to the living. In memory of the Jews deported from Germany, Austria and Czechia, who from December 194...

  Is that a white sandy beach? Well, the snow is white over a sandy beach, so technically it is a white sandy beach. Going to the beach is a...

  2020 is finally done. It hasn't been one of the world's best years in my lifetime, even though it's been relatively good for u...

  Almost everything in Riga is closed on the weekends while the pandemic continues. We were pleasantly surprised to see the art museums are ...

Next stop is Algiers, Algeria! Algeria is a country in the North Africa region. The similarly named  Algiers is their coastal capital on ...

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...