[ Sept.2014 ] 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 and blue doors and so on, which looked like the houses in fairy tales.
A lot of them seemed renting their rooms to tourists, but we saw some houses people were actually living there.
Nida’s village was much smaller, but I would say that houses were as pretty as the ones in Aero Island in Denmark.
Since the 19th century, Nida was the town where German artists got together.
One of them was Thomas Mann, and he had a summer house here, which is now a museum, though I could not have time to visit there.
In Soviet era, this area was closed to public and only executives in the communist party could enter.
Only exception was the French philosopher, Sartre and writer Beauvoir who had a special permission from Khrushchev in 1965 and they spent 5 days in the dune of Nida.
In the town, we saw quite a few particular weathercocks as well as in Klaipeda.
In Curonian Spit, since 14th century, they had the fishing industry and had unique boats.
These weathercocks were on top of each boat, not only to tell the wind directions, but also, to identify the boat.
