Baltic Europe Travel Stories Articles
The New Lithuania – LithuaniaTom Dwyer visits a recent EU addition – Lithuania.
The All-Consuming Tourist Gaze – Tallinn, Estonia
Estonia welcomes
Patricia Perkins’ poor preparation left her open t
European Travelogue #1: Vilnius, LithuaniaThe Baltic Breakaway.
From Baltic to the Black Sea #4Belarus (My 50th country) 2 September 1999
Doobre Zhen,
(Hello in Belarussian)
Actually, there’s no point writing in Belarussian, as few people, even the Belarussians, speak this language. Belarussian nationalists claim that they are a separate race from the Russians but have been excessively Russified such that they have forgotten their mother tongue. Others, for [...]
From Baltic to the Black Sea #3Vilnius, Lithuania 31 August 1999
Dear All,
Lonely Planet is really screwed up in terms of cybercafe locations – or maybe such places tend to open and shut down quickly. One of the two listed in Riga wasn’t there and I spent much time searching for one above a Vilnius dogdy nightclub, only to be [...]
From Baltic to the Black Sea #2Kaunas, Lithuania 30 August 1999
Laba Diena,
(Hello in Lithuanian)
I’m now in Kaunas, the second largest city (and capital during the period between WWI & WWII) of the Republic of Lithuania.
On Sunday morning (after a late night chat with the landlady’s 2 pretty daughters), I took the 7am bus across southern Latvia into Lithuania. The [...]
From Baltic to the Black Sea #1Riga, Latvia 28 August 1999
Dear All,
It’s Wee Cheng writing from a cybercafe in Riga, capital of the Baltic republic of Latvia, also a former Soviet republic. The Latvians speak a language close to no other peoples except the Lithuanians next door, and have not had their own country until 1919. Before that, [...]
