Lithuania

The street to the sea

This is a photo of  Basanaviciaus Street in Palanga, Lithuania. It is a car free street and there were many shops, booths and restaurants on both sides. Even on the day at…

Palanga

Gintaro

This is a pendant I bought from a man who had a stall in Basanaviciaus Street in Palanga in Lithuania. He made it himself using the local amber and African wood ….

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Amber museum

There is an Amber Museum in Palanga in Lithuania. Palanga was the centre of amber processing for a long time. There are more than 20000 pieces of amber in the museum and…

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To Palanga

On the third day of our Lithuanian holiday, we went to Palanga from Klaipeda. The receptionist at our hotel pronounced it with the accent on the first syllable. This is another famous…

Klaipeda

Pancake

This is the photo of pancake we had as starters in Klaipeda in Lithuania. The front one is pancake with cabbage, and the one behind is spinach and mushroom, and the sauce…

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Pretty houses

There were many pretty houses in Nida in Lithuania. I was not expecting this, so it was a very pleasant surprise. They were wooden houses  in red or blue with white windowsills…

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Dune

Nida is the main town in Curonian Spit in Lithuania which is listed as a World Heritage. At the south end of the town there is a dune which goes on to…

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To Nida

The south end of Lithuanian side of Curinian Spit which stretches from north to south is Nida. If you go a bit more south it becomes Russia. Nida used to be a…

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Endless beach

In Smiltyne in Curonian Spit, a World Heritage site in Lithuania, our carriage took us to this beach facing the Baltic Sea. Spit is the sand accumulated land, so the sandy beach…