After three weeks travelling around Lithuania we arrived in our final city, Kaunas. It’s the country’s second largest city after Vilnius and there’s a healthy rivalry between the two. Last week in the capital we’d heard how Kaunas was just like Vilnius, but worse. Of course, once we arrived in Kaunas the locals there told …
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 …
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 …
Before our trip, Vilnius was one of the cities we were both most looking forward to visiting. Admittedly, our reasons weren’t exactly the same; I was excited to try out some of Lithuania’s best-rated craft beer bars, while Poppy was more eager for the WW2 and Soviet history. Lithuanian beer had been a bit hit-and-miss …
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 …
Panevėžys, Lithuania’s fifth largest city by population, is not a place you’ll find in most guide books. I don’t think they get many British tourists out this way; even the local tourist information office only offered maps of the city in Lithuanian, Latvian and Russian. Nevertheless, we booked a couple of nights in town and …
