What a difference a year makes. That has to be the most repeated statement of 2020 (well, the most repeated PG statement, that is). But looking through these photos, rewinding to this point in time, really hammered it in for me. This weekend in London was a spontaneous one. I tossed all ...
Winter Guide to Old Town Tallinn
If Tallinn's colorful town square and twinkling Christmas market aren't yet on your radar, I'm insisting that they need to be. It's one of the coolest (pun intended) places I've ever been, and evokes all of the childhood storybook dreams of yore. I've read that Old Town Tallinn lacks texture - ...
Best of Kalamaja: Tallinn’s Hipster District
Fun fact: the neighborhood I call home in San Francisco is considered to be hip. "Up-and-coming," as they say. Slightly off the beaten path for visitors, but already on the radars of those in the know - craft beer connoisseurs, rock-climbers, artists, and the odd bakery 'grammer. Well, those in the ...
Winter Roadtrip Through Estonia And Latvia
If you, like I, booked one week in the Baltics ambitiously thinking that it'd be enough time to visit Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, small villages along the way, and heck, perhaps even take that party ferry to Helsinki... allow me to spoil it for you. You can't. You can't do it in a way that'd do ...
Thanksgiving in Riga, Latvia
Last night, I dug through the dark corners of my closet in search of my warmest of blanket scarves. Scarves of the blanket variety are wholly unnecessary for an autumn here in San Francisco. They're, however, absolutely critical for a November weekend in Europe, where I'll be for half of ...