{"id":410,"date":"2007-03-29T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/?p=410"},"modified":"2007-03-29T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T20:20:00","slug":"quick-note-from-riga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/29\/quick-note-from-riga\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick note from Riga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s always nice to post from different places than home… so here is a quick update from Riga. I’m staying in a hotel in the old town, which is really nice indeed, as I can see with my own eyes. I walked around a bit this afternoon through this old town. Lots and lots of young people, places that are trendy (or wannabe-trendy, I can’t really tell), beautiful architecture. The picture is not very typical but I liked the old Soviet image. (It is actually a pre-Soviet statue from 1905!).<\/p>\n

The conference started tonight with a talk by Elaine Lloyd, an American staff lady who has been living here in Riga since 1994. Great story about discipleship – understandable, very personal and practical. I’ll post some notes later. Afterwards we had dinner in town; since Elaine and her husband are the Riga experts, I thought they would take us to some fancy Latvian place, but alas. I should have known better with these ‘culturally different’ Americans \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And thanks to the unsecured wireless connection of neighbours in the hotel I could Skype from the hotelroom this afternoon for more than an hour, have an MSN chat and online prayer with Mira tonight and post this post… for free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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