2018 Around the Baltic Archives - Page 4 of 4

Trakai

The only castle on an island in Eastern Europe attracts more than one million visitors […]

Lithuania’s second city and one-time capital during the interwar years was founded in the 1300s. […]

Samogitia is the province in the west of Lithuania that is possibly its oldest established […]

Samogitian Calvary (as it’s called in English) is a collection of 20 small chapels built […]

This national park stretches for 200 square kilometres in the Samogitian ‘lowlands’ of western Lithuania. […]

Deep in the heart of the Zemaitija National Park lurks a former Soviet nuclear missile […]

From Kiel in Germany, we arrived 21 hours later into the port of Klaipeda, Lithuania. […]

The world’s busiest man-made shipping channel, the Kiel Canal, stretches almost 120 miles from Holtenau […]

Zwolle’s history as an important Hanseatic League port town intrigued us, situated as it is […]

Robert Louis Stephenson said that “to travel hopefully is better than to arrive” and he […]