In May, Konstantin and I went to Latvia. I had the time of my life. I took hundreds and hundreds of photographs, and I have chosen my favourite ones to share with you today (that was so hard to do! Yikes). I wont write much today, because I think the photographs will speak for themselves.
Here is a link to Part 2 of the series.
We went to a beautiful rustic cafe in Riga City for coffee and honey cake.
We took walks through the parks in the middle of the city and I ooh-ed and aah-ed at the gorgeous russian orthodox churches.
At the market place.
This is his grandmothers library of russian literature. The bookshelves run deeper too – this is only the first layer.
The books were all hardback, with thick pages, beautiful illustrations, and so deliciously preserved.
Konstantin reading one of his favourite childhood books.
Me and my love.
Wild flowers growing behind barbed wire.
When I saw this, I could hardly believe my eyes. It looks like a scene that I thought only existed in my imagination. A beautiful meadow, under thick blue skies, speckled with trees and golden flowers. Well, I soon climben onto those little wooden posts for a picture, and they broke under my weight, and I broke the beautiful meadow 
The forrest that Konstantin would go for runs in.
with love,
m
Beautiful
Beautiful photos, looks gorgeous x
would like to see more pictures, for example the ones when you stepped on a bug, or Konstantins 3 stages of enjoying the nature,also cough syrup and sheeps fat drink…wheres all that?
Hey, those go in our private collection
Cool pictures…. Makes me feel a little homesick…
Then it seems i did a good job with the pictures, hehe. Nice to see a latvian here on my blog. Welcome
Yes, you did a very good job with pics!
Kostya had shared a link to this blog on his FB page, that’s how I got here. Say ‘what’s up’ to him please for me…
I told him
thank you for reading!! 
If 2 (or 3?!) of you ever decide to visit this side of the pond I hope we’ll meet….
Beautiful photos, the one of the cake made me hungry!
wouw! I’ve been enjoying your blog posts for a while, but today you really surprised me
I am Latvian, living in Tunisia now and going back home soon 
great great great pics and soo much love in them 
(I know how sometimes Latvia’s countryside might not look all that picturesque 
greetings, Signe
Oh wow, I am sooooo excited to have a latvian reader of my blog
Do you speak latvian or russian, or both?
I will check out your blog!
yeah, the world is juts a tiny village
I am Latvian speaking, but of course speak Russian too and love it – lately loosign the oportunities – all my Russian friends are back in Riga. And again – thank you for showing my home country in such a beautiful way 
and well, those mama’s of those boys, right? but mine would go for a softer version – hot milk and honey – works like a charm and tastes good 
Signe
oh, horosho! ja hochu uchitsja govorjit po-russki, no u menja ploho s russkim. moj paren’ rossii, on uchit menja
Really glad you enjoyed the pictures and I hope you felt I represented your beautiful country in the best way that I could. i thought it was beautiful and i enjoyed my time there so much!
ochen prijatno
ps. I apologize in advance for all the mistakes I just made!
wouw! good luck with Russian! and lots of patience to you and the teacher
it is hard – I wouldn’t be able to write anymore – I can read and speak, but all those years of Russian grammar at school have been lost on me for the writing bit 
real happy that you liked it in our small but, ah, so beautiful Latvia 
and thanks again for sharing the photos!
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