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Discovering the second Lithuanian official religion: Basketball’s faith.
Despite the fact that is passed almost one week from the end of the Basketball World Cup, the feelings that I felt while watching Lithuania’s National team most crucial matches are still etched in my mind.Everyone probably knows that…
I believe I can fly… my first air balloon experience.
Since the dawn of time human being has always coveted to fly. Many have attempted throughout history to satisfy this irrepressible desire. Hence, being able to achieve this feat was unquestionably the most ambitious challenge.Lots of…
Throwback: a day trip in Trakai Medieval environment
If you are in Vilnius, You can not miss a visit to one of the most picturesque and fascinating towns of Lithuania: Trakai. This small medieval village is perched on a small island connected to a strip of land by a distinctive wooden bridge…
Vilnius at the first sight: feeling and impression of a foreigner just moved on
Every person who for some reasons: work, study, love, is moving to a different country from its own before arrive is certainly curious to know the most he/she can about the culture and the way of life of the people who live there. So here…
Along the coast. First step: Klaipeda
When you first arrive in a place having the opportunity to spend there some months, you feel like "I have to see every corner, I want to bring back with me all the postcards that my mind can archive’’. At least I felt like this.With this…
Under the sea…the Baltic one. Sea Museum and Dolphinarium’s journey
If You decide to go to Klaipeda, You also must take a chance and visit Sea museum, so according to this advice I set out hastily on the pier determined to not miss the ferry that will take me to a fantastic guided tour discovering the…
Which image international web sites paint of Lithuania?
After returning to this wonderful weekend of relaxation and sightseeing of untouched and wild places some questions haunt me. What is the image that international and particularly Italian web sites provide us about Lithuania? Which useful…
How is Lithuania represented in its local websites?
After having reviewed a wide series of international web pages, especially Italians, and above all after having discovered the perspective about Lithuania that emerges from them I asked myself a new question. It was inevitable to wonder…
A relaxing weekend in the city. Walking through Bernardine Gardens
For the majority of workers employed in any European capital, the thought of spend a relaxing weekend in the city seems almost a paradox. The search for distant destinations from ours weekly routine and everyday life, lead us to commit time…
Elegant shapes bringing closer to the sky: Saint Anne Church
When the time starts to get late, the wind definitely cold whisk in the trees and the moisture seeps into your bones making you feel frozen chills, you realize that it is time to leave the park. However, it is the sunset time when all…
Every human being dreams to fly
What is so fascinating in extreme sports? Why despite the risk, sometimes of life itself, they carry such a special charm that is able to kidnap even the more quiet and peaceful imagination?Well, some would say that these sports are an…
Discovering Kaunas
Since the beginning of my stay in Lithuania I've heard only bad words about Kaunas. Some had told me that it is a grey, industrial, ugly city; others instead saved the aesthetics and architecture of the city, telling me that the real…
Why you won’t leave Lithuania? Sharing experiences with Hub Camp #26
Sometimes when you're about to change country and move away from your home, your loved ones and especially from your traditions and customs a lot of doubts assail you. Yet above all, why should you choose Lithuania to live?Since the first…
Italy – Lithuania: a long and prosperous partnership
This week I had the pleasure and the honour of being able to pose a few questions to the Italian ambassador here in Lithuania Stefano Taliani de Marchio. Given the extraordinary presence of Italy in this country and especially the curiosity…
Leonardo da Vinci project: enhance your competencies, make your internship valuable
Nowadays for young European graduates find a stable and decently paid job seems to be a mission steadily more impossible. The economic crisis, in which the old Europe seems to have wearily bogged down putting at risk even economies of…
Nida: a slice of heaven on Earth
Being in Klaipeda you could not miss the possibility to go somewhere in the Curonian Peninsula. Given the limited time at our disposal the choice obviously fell on Nida.Nida’s town is one of the most important Lithuanian touristic centres…
Druskininkai: thermal water tastes savoury
Druskininkai is a small town in the southern part of Lithuania on the border with Belarus. Some days ago, when a group of friends asked me to take a ride over there I could not refuse. Therefore, we jump in the car and we dedicated to…
“The Snow Queen” brings Christmas mood to Vilnius Airport
With only weeks to go until the holidays, Vilnius Airport offers more than just the traditional Christmas tree to get you into holiday mood: this year, visitors will also be met with a unique art project - “The Snow Queen” in an impressive…
Around the Baltic capitals: Tallinn
As good travel lover I had to complete the puzzle of the Baltic States by bringing home a postcard from Tallinn. Estonia's capital welcomes me in a dark night; when the fog is the master and everything is whitewashed by fresh snow fell in…
Heading north: wandering in Helsinki
Once you are in Tallinn its geographical position is too temptress to don't finally fall into its web. Barely two hours of ferry throughout the Gulf of Finland in the iced waters of the Baltic and you get in Helsinki.One day is enough to…