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.

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