Hi, my name is Jacoba, start living in Riga since April 2024. I travel and work the last 7 years abroad. I left Holland in 2018. More interest are music, blogs, swimming, nature lover, cooking and so more.
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My name is Sir Kevin Parr .I came here after death of my wife in cancer to start all over again . Built house and 5 acres of English art and craft garden rooms and avenues . Spend my days in work i love inside my hedged tall world . Hope you like Latvia i do as it was the cheapest nation ever found . Today not so cheap as prices have risen to English prices in one of Europes lowest paid and poorest nations . Riga i go shopping to and dine in Gambey . Parking is becoming a problem as since look down more now own cars . I visit garden events in summer for a day off . Garden party time in my gardens on invite works well to meet people .I have a broad church on interests . History research . People study and food . I like cooking baking and brick oven roasts. Nature all around me i love as i live with farm land lakes and forest all around me.Nearest shop 3miles off and town 12 miles. Have to have a good car to handle both terain and deep snow of winter out here. Riga is an hours drive away . I would not wish to live there but like a day out every few weeks in city or over in Imanta where i have friends
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@Naesby Good story, thank you. Well, it seems you are integrated already, more than I am. I am here now in th 5th month. I enjoy it so far.
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@Jacoba Romkes It takes time I know,to settle down . If you have a job here . I dont work i have incomes to live off . Gardens now mowed looks amazing rather more like England than Latvia . If you feel like a visit to see garden one says in this area of rural charm is a bus ride away taking one and half in one bus straight through to here from Riga . 70 kilometer from bus station to Liepupe school gates . Or driving 55 minutes in car . My feel with friends as being alone here i think a rather boring existence .I was lucky as lots of English here when i came in 2012 with no house car Rover on British plates got me here behind furniture vans but after 3 months car sat for 7 years unable legally to use . It was a steep sharp learning curve for an English lawyer to build own home. I have always had woodworking hobby but house build in what is a wooden barn was not what I had thought would be . Still have house in England though . Anyway back to hedge cutting today . Good luck with living here . Its not everyones choice as language is harder than any other to learn .Thank God most speak English as second language . I ave around 16 words i remember and over 50 i cant until hear in conversation . Latvians older then 45 seem unable to learn can only speak Latvian or Russian I have traveled the world and can say English is every place you go so never bothered learning any ones language . In jungle of Ghan i being in army duty aged 19 from University a tribal fellow appeared in front of us armed and patrolling .As from no where he was there. Said can you chaps tell me the score at Lords today. I nearly shot him . Radio he said had failed him and seeing two English army lads i though ,saved , as they will know about Cricket score. Never have i been so near as rifles at his face he feared not .My point being English being spoken by a tribal warrior so far from home amazed us both .God speed and love life
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