As I just now begin to write my travel blog, I will give a brief overlook on my previous years of travels. It all began with my fathers desire for me to become a captain on a huge cruise ship. He was living his dream true for me. As in the time of the soviet union, you could not so easily become a sailor, my father did not pass the test - my grandfather was fighting on the German side during WW2. That was not his choice. Soviets and Germans had a major battlefield on the territory of Latvia, and the country was separated in two parts. You were forced to join the army which occupied your area. So my Grandfather was legionnaire, and that caused his deportation to Siberia. That record meant my dad could
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