Liberation day! This one’s from the time our family had ridiculous Eastern European wealth and power. Let’s just not say our great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather used said power to do nice things. At least he had a couple of sweet palaces… we stocked up on pickled mushroom car snacks and drove around the country looking for them […]
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Back to the motherland to do a bit of tracing the roots. Riga was fabulous. Super pretty, not too busy, lots of streets of shops and food to explore and ooooooh summer food, all straight from the farm and forest. Turns out that our family Christmas food is all just fairly regular Latvian food, so […]
Seaside gelato, fried anchovies, olive trees, lemon trees, and 50000 other people. These colourful little villages were so worth dealing with so many humans for a day. Of course I found some fabulous ceramics early in the day to weigh down my bag for the hike through the hills between villages. And then we ate […]
WOAH! Finally back to blogging. Loads of stuff that haven’t been posted, so hopefully I’ll get back into the habit. It’s been a while. Good thing I’ve got a ton of photos from two weeks around Europe this summer. Because being chronological would be foolish, so I might as well start in the middle of […]