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🇫🇷 Beguiling Bordeaux 🇫🇷
Published about 2 months ago • 8 min read
January 18, 2026 Greetings! Hello from Riga, where we are enjoying a classic winter wonderland, lucky enough to still enjoy all the holiday lights in situ. This is very sensible of the city authorities as the sun doesn’t really show itself much before 9:00 am and bids us farewell around 3:30. My determination to get more steps in has been thwarted by serious sub-zero temperatures, which look likely to drop even further in the coming days. Did you receive this newsletter from a friend? Click...
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