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🇭🇷 Zesty Zadar: Croatia's Dazzling Layered City 🇭🇷
Published 2 days ago • 6 min read
05 July 2026 Greetings! Greetings from beautiful Riga, where we have endured something of a heat wave in the past days — nothing like temperatures in New York and Rome — but high for here. I took refuge in the thick walls of our 1905 stone apartment building, and holed up most of the holiday weekend to do our tax prep. Not terribly glamorous, but necessary, and I’m happy to say, I broke the back of it this afternoon, which is why this missive comes to you a bit later than usual. Did you...
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