After our emotional visit to Vilnius we elected to have a spa day. Not that we have ever had a spa day. Regardless, we headed to Druskininkai a well known spa resort on the Nemunas River in southern Lithuania renown for its mineral waters. (pictures show up better on the blog, click on the linkContinue reading “Baltic Balagon”
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A Serious Vilnius
Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno to Poles who called it home until after WW2, Vilna in Yiddish. Dubbed the Jerusalem of North by Napoleon. Nicknamed Babylon in the 16th-18th due to its multi-ethnic demographic. It was not until independence in 1990, that for the first time in modern history Lithuanians became a majority at 63%. of theContinue reading “A Serious Vilnius”
They do make you stumble…
This was originally posted January 7, 2019. Since then we have stumbled over many stolpersteine. Each time we find one, either by chance or intent, we take a picture and add it here. Countries included- Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Italy, Croatia, France, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland. We see stoplersteine throughout Europe; big cities and tiny, repulsedContinue reading “They do make you stumble…”
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