The only castle on an island in Eastern Europe attracts more than one million visitors […]
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Kaunas
Lithuania’s second city and one-time capital during the interwar years was founded in the 1300s. […]
Summer’s day in Samogitia
Samogitia is the province in the west of Lithuania that is possibly its oldest established […]
Samogitian Calvary
Samogitian Calvary (as it’s called in English) is a collection of 20 small chapels built […]
Zemaitija National Park
This national park stretches for 200 square kilometres in the Samogitian ‘lowlands’ of western Lithuania. […]
Saltojo Karo
Deep in the heart of the Zemaitija National Park lurks a former Soviet nuclear missile […]
Klaipeda and Karkle
From Kiel in Germany, we arrived 21 hours later into the port of Klaipeda, Lithuania. […]
Kiel
The world’s busiest man-made shipping channel, the Kiel Canal, stretches almost 120 miles from Holtenau […]
Zwolle & Emden
Zwolle’s history as an important Hanseatic League port town intrigued us, situated as it is […]
The fortress towns of Bergues & Hulst
Robert Louis Stephenson said that “to travel hopefully is better than to arrive” and he […]