Month: June 2019

Ninth Fort Museum

It was not the intention to visit the Ninth Fort Museum while we were in Kaunas, as we were unsure what public transport would be like given it was a public holiday weekend for the Summer Solstice. However, after a few days in the city the number of commemorative plaques and statues referencing and commemorating …

Paneriai Memorial

While I only learnt about the Bikernieki Memorial through Lonely Planet, I was already aware of Paneriai before we arrived in Lithuania. Though the two today bear similarities in some respect – they are both Holocaust memorials in areas of mass shootings in woods outside the respective capitals – Paneriai differed at the time due …

Rinkuškiai Brewery

No beer tour around the Baltics would be complete without a stop-off in Biržai in northern Lithuania. The town has a long and distinguished brewing history, and the traditional styles from the region are still popular today. They take their beer pretty seriously around here; apparently, after the Swedish destroyed Biržai in 1704, the locals …