Old Town, Warsaw, Poland
The Eastern European city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is not a city renowned for tourism. For the most part it’s a vast, drab place with long streets full of uninspiring communist-era grey & boxy concrete (blame the Soviets). But it does have one gem...
Trakai, Lithuania
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Vilnius, Lithuania
Vilnius, the capital of the Baltic state of Lithuania, is different. Very different. There seems to be a bizarre, anything goes mentality wafting through the air here, something that goes hand in hand with the the very bohemian, almost gypsy look & feel of the...
Church of the Holy Spirit, Vilnius, Lithuania
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, the largest of the three Baltic states in Eastern Europe. A city of gypsies, bohemian types & general misfits, there’s a definite & bizarre anything goes mentality wafting through the air at any given time. One...
Riga, Latvia
My Baltic shuffle continues. Yesterday Tallinn in Estonia, today Riga in Latvia, & tomorrow Vilnius in Lithuania. This, Riga, is the largest city in the region, the capital of the country some say is the only truly Baltic country of the three official Baltic...
House Of The Blackheads, Riga, Latvia
Riga is the capital of the small Baltic country of Latvia in Eastern Europe. It’s the largest city in the Baltic States & is a major shipping centre sitting, as it does, at the south end of the Gulf of Riga, on the mouth of the Daugava River. Founded in 1201...
Tallinn, Estonia
I’ll freely admit I knew very little of what to expect from Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic State of Estonia. However, I now know that it is a charming little European capital with a stunning UNESCO protected medieval Old Town. While all three of the Baltic...
Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn is a port city on the Gulf of Finland, the capital and largest city of the small Baltic country of Estonia. The city was built on a vantage point at the opening of the Gulf of Finland and over the years it has, due to its key port position, incited the attacks...