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Pittsburgh vs Riga: Reflections on food, drink, and toilet paper
It’s been getting dark pretty early around here. Later this week, we will dip down to below seven hours of daylight. With the darkness creeps a sense of quiet stillness, inviting long evenings of sipping hot wine and enjoying a good book or movie. And so, as we plunge our way into the heart of darkness that is a Baltic winter, I’m encouraged to use this time to reflect a bit on the season now nearly over; my first autumn in Riga.
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Riga, Latvia
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A beer drinker goes to Belgium: 39 beers and 7 favorites
From October 27th-31st, I was on a quick tour of Belgium. In that time I had 39 different Belgian beers, some of them more than once. Add the best beers in the world to a diet of street frites, mussels, chocolates, waffels, and crepes, and you have yourself a wonderland of indulgences.
Delirium Cafe in Brussels: World record holder for the most varieties of beer available on any given day (somewhere around 2,500!)
