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Honey, or “medus” in Lithuanian. We always find it on the tables of our Lithuanian hosts. They are really proud of their honey, as it comes from their land. It is often produced by their relatives or friends. We always
Smugglers. “Criminals”. They were scholars, teachers, avid readers. They loved their country more than anything and they wanted to be Lithuanians. They became book smugglers to protect their identity, their traditions and the soul of Lithuania. They were the knygnešiai,
February 16th, Happy Anniversary, Lithuania! We were in Vilnius for the 100th Anniversary of the Restored of Lithuania State. It was not cold, as one might expect in Winter at those latitudes. The first meeting was in the Cathedral Square,
We were at the commemorations of events to remember the tragic events of January 1991, when the Soviet Union militarily attacked Lithuania to destroy the country’s independence, declared in March 1990, after almost 50 years of Soviet occupation. We took
The Curonian Spit, Neringa in Lithuanian, is a 98 km long and thin stretch of land. It separates the lagoon from the Baltic Sea. Lithuania owns 53 of those kilometers, while the rest belongs to the Russian enclave of the
Ceremony of the State Funeral of the commanders and participants of the 1863-1864 uprising, in Vilnius. The remains of the victims were founded during the Gedimino Hill reinforcement works in 2017. The uprising involved people of Lithuania, Poland and Belarus
When we land in Vilnius it is a beautiful, late August evening. We drop our bags at the hotel and after a few minutes we are walking to the great Cathedral square, a popular meeting spot. There’s a big crowd,