Those who follow me since the beginning know that I’m not interested in seeing cities and museums. I love nature! We opened our caravan season on Friday, 4 May by heading to the rural property of our friends’ family near Līgatne (Latvia) in Gauja National Park territory. All the property is suited along the cliff and … More Gauja National Park – Ligatne: Cliffs and Nature
Today we had sunny weather here in Salacgriva. Still windy, but sunny! No rain! All the ground is soaking wet and muddy, so girls still need rain boots and the wind asks for warm fleece jackets, too. Baltic sea is 2 km away from us, so Janis took two bigger girls to the sea. To play … More A bit of the sun and the wind: Salacgriva
We are back in Latvia. But no at home. We will travel around here for a few weeks or so. The weather in these two days isn’t “good”. It’s rainy, windy and cold. We aren’t used to such weather after having +30 🙂 in Germany. Our last travel day was looooong. We drive 949km per … More Back in Latvia
We left our favorite free parking space and headed to the another one. We parked here at 11 pm and it was so cold and dark we went straight to bed. We were woken by unheard sound… the wind was blowing away our solar panel! Or at least wanted to! Our solar panel is safe … More Few hours in rainy Hessigheim
We were woken up by bells of the church at 10 am. How do you like that!? At 10 am! We stayed for one more day in Leidersbach. The weather was so nice – not hot, not too sunny, cool and partly cloudy – not raining. That playground and horses I wrote about yesterday weren’t in … More Day 2 at Leidersbach: Laundry and Walk
Today we decide to stay for one more day in Leidersbach. It was raining and I wanted to clean the caravan. Janis did the grocery shopping and girls “helped” me with the cleaning. At the end, we find few more books and unused stickers…and we didn’t finish with the cleaning! So, doesn’t matter: we are … More Day 3 at Leidersbach: Rain
No way! After having a good time in Lich, we couldn’t head back home. It just didn’t feel right. We all felt like we need to travel a bit more…. just a bit more before we head back. We drive a bit down (away from Latvia) and stayed at a funny small city called Leidersbach. It’s … More No way! Leidersbach
Germany is big so we decided to go closer to Latvia from Ramsthal…. Why? Janis vacation ends up on 8th of June… but he can take few more weeks off without salary. We still got money to travel a bit and small village Lich that offers a big & free playground is a place we … More Are we heading home? Lich.
e tWe decided to go to Ramsthal…. Why Ramsthal? I have to ask: Why not!? There should be free parking with necessary facilities. Will see… It is so easy to travel like this. Just go where the road invites you. After an hour drive, we were in Ramsthal – beautiful village in between mountains. The … More Between mountains: Ramsthal
Did laundry without losing a sock …. today was a good day! It was an interesting experience. And I can say it’s something that takes all day. We bought our portable washing machine for camper and tried it already while at home. It didn’t work as planned but I guess my expectations was higher than … More Laundry Day & Playground
Now we are free. Free to go whenever we like. We left family friends and the beautiful/magical garden and drove to the closest shop to buy some food and water. We wanted to visit the city and see the castle up the hill. The frequent need of toilet spoiled all the so called plan. We … More Without a destination
As you know we were in the Berlin for a few days and the main reason was to see Viola – Nelles Godmother and to celebrate Nelles 5th birthday. We decided to leave the caravan near family friend’s house and drive all the way (more than 400km) to the Berlin just by the car. That … More My happy place
Berlin. Oh. I am surprised! I can’t even describe my feeling. First of all – I haven’t been in a big city for a long long long time! These past 3 years living in the countryside made me country girl! Nelle met her godmother and we stayed with here. She tried to convince me to go out and … More Having fun & walk in Berlin
Since we had long, long drive through Poland and we all were tired we decide to drive “slower”. Making more pit stops along the way. We didn’t want to develop disgust for traveling to our girls… It was hard. It seams that I also need time “off the car” and we stopped every 30-50 km 🙂 … More Crossing the border and pit stopping a lot
Oh it looks like it is getting worse! We started our journey today. And that’s good! But there is “BUT”. Janis is getting ill. He is having angina and he looks tired. Can’t swallow, can’t speak… His body temperature is getting higher and higher. And… he is the only driver! We are in Lithuania and … More Getting worse!?
We are still in Latvia. Can’t start our journey. Yesterday Janis installed solar panel on the roof of caravan. We where happy – finally it’s there and we can go. But then suddenly our caravan started to blink like a Christmas tree. Safety first! 1am Janis discovered where the problem was and started to fix … More Worried
Today I had two knew employees in my kitchen…. or should I say outside the kitchen! Girls saw me washing dishes outside and took the job over. I don’t know if they will show up tomorrow but today they got upset when I told that all the dirty dishes are clean. Happy Latvian mom, Ilze … More New staff
Yesterday we packed first two suitcases for upcoming caravan trip… and packed two more bags for small get away to my hometown: Salacgriva. We decided to visit my mom and “change the decorations”. About Salacgriva: It’s a small town located near Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea), close to Estonian border. See here. If you ask me – … More Hometown
Yesterday evening was sunny and so does this morning. Girls wanted to pack her summer clothes for our caravan trip. And I realize that it would be easier for me if something will be washed, ironed and packed already! Less cloth for girls to wear now (they like to change cloth 5 times per day … More First two suitcases packed!
a day in the life of a latvian mom 