When you ask me where to go in Europe that’s a cool city to visit for a few days — somewhere a bit off the beaten path, but not TOO off the beaten path — that’s when I start talking about Riga, Latvia. As a Latvian-American, I have a soft spot for Riga. In 2015 […]
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This year of reading was a bit of a slow burn. For awhile, it seemed like I hadn’t read many books that truly grabbed me. Then in the final third of the year, I kept getting hit over and over with fabulous book after fabulous book! So far I’ve read 52 books in 2020 —
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2020 was all about looking for a silver lining. In a year of turmoil, I was able to find a lot of joy — and I was grateful for that. Sometimes that’s all that you can say. Here are my favorite travel moments of 2020. Crossing the Border from Serbia into Croatia It was early
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2020 was the year that travel ground to a halt for most people. While most people didn’t travel at all this year, I feel extraordinarily lucky that I got to experience as much as I did. How was I able to experience so much travel in 2020? I began the year in Cuba and was
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It’s official — I’m a cat mom! This month, Charlie and I discovered a pair of rescue kittens that needed a home, and we decided to adopt them! They are two gray tabbies with white bellies and white paws, and their names are Lewis and Murray. Their foster family originally named them Harley and Davidson
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It’s crazy how different October 1 looked from October 31. At the beginning of the month, life in Prague was almost normal. Restaurants and bars closed at 10:00 PM, and masks were required indoors, but other than that, it was Prague as usual, operating in full. Then the Czech Republic’s COVID infection rate became the
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I write a lot about politics here — and even more so on the Adventurous Kate Facebook page. Every single time that I post something remotely political, I get plenty of people saying, “Stick to travel.” Let’s talk about that. Travel is a political act. Every time you cross an international border, every time you
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Dubrovnik, Croatia is one of the most magical places in the Mediterranean; a city of ancient walls and orange roofs, this Pearl of the Adriatic is home to Game of Thrones filming locations, rocky beaches, and pršut ham that’s carved from the leg and brought straight to your lips. If you’re visiting Croatia, I highly
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I have been completely overtaken by my newest project: making over my new Prague apartment! When I arrived in Prague, I was lucky to have an apartment waiting for me — the apartment my boyfriend Charlie has lived in for the past ten years, the apartment for which I’ve been on the lease for more
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Italy is a dream destination — and one of the countries that I know best. It is a country that I have lived in, visited dozens of times, and am actually in right now as I write this. (Well, when I started it, at least. Started in Ferrara, finishing up in Prague.) And I’ve eaten
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