Lithuania: Klaipeda, Kaunas and Vilnius

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June 29th 2011

Published: July 7th 2011

After Estonia and Latvia, I arrived in the final Baltic state of Lithuania. I was heading to the country’s small coastline and Lithuania’s third largest city, Klaipéda, but I stopped along the way at the fourth city, Siaulai (more or less pronounced Shoo-lay). This industrial city doesn’t really have anything to detain the visitor for that long, but 10km outside Siaulai is what has been de... Read Full Entry

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St Anne's and Bernadine churches

Vilnius Cathedral and Campanile

Presidential Palace

I would have thought Lithuania would be too new a nation to have bizarre traditions, but apparently not. Here, the guards lower the three flags at the front of the Presidential Palace, do a few small marches and then raise them back up again. Not sure if that was just because Hilary Clinton was paying a visit that day or whether that's a daily ritual.

St Catherine's Church

Vilnius City Hall

Vilnius Cathedral

Hill of the Three Crosses

Trakai Castle

Paneraia

19th July 2011

Nel Kanas
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I stumbled across your blog and was delighted at the amount of time you have saved me in research, as I had planned to do exactly your trip but in reverse. Your honesty was refreshing and without prejudice, you wrote clearly and well, your keen observations were exactly the sort of things I was trying to find out. Thank you very much.

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