We arrived in Tartu, Estonia after a two hour drive through snowy forests and across another barely marked border. It felt high time to vis...

On a blizzardy day when all seemed bleak and cold, we visited the KGB cells museum in Tartu. It was a strange, disconcerting place that we ...

Merlin: On another wintery, snowy day, we stayed close to home because of sickness (mine) and compassion (Rebecca's). Home, right now, ...

So, no one in Latvia celebrates Hanukkah. I know, shocking. But it still struck me as sort of sad not to see any blue incorporated into town...

Latvia is very flat. How flat? The Latvian language never developed a word for "mountain." Interestingly, "Go Tell it on t...

We drove to Gulbene to take a ride on the little narrow gauge railroad that runs between that town and Aluksne, where we are staying. Sadly...

A young man at an outdoors store told us that the town bowling alley was no longer, the woman at the Valmiera Dance Theater box office told...

When we got to Cēsis we thought we'd check out the town castle - expecting some disheveled mound blanketed by snow. When we were issued...

Latvia is sort of short and squat (much like their elderly) so a decision had to be made in Riga, whether to go west or east. We chose east...

Latvia is a land of castles, in a way that is inspiring and overwhelming. There are so many because Latvia was, at one time, on a major tra...