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Day 210: Trakai Castle, Or Things Fairy Tales Are Made Of
Blog: Brooke vs. the World | RTW Travel Blog - 30 July 2011
Day 210: Trakai Castle, Or Things Fairy Tales Are Made Of is a post from: Brooke vs. the World. Don't forget to check out more awesomely awesome travel goodness at WhyGo Australia and Her Packing List.
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Can You Score A Country on Ethics? The Top Ten Ethical Destinations For Travellers
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 25 January 2011
When it comes to "Top Ten" lists, I find them fun but I never take them seriously. So when an email landed in my ludicrously overpopulated inbox with the subject "The Top Ten Ethical Destinations," my cynical old heart sank a little. Why?
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Day 150: Baltic Summer
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 9 July 2010
A fairy tale red castle bathing under the summer sun in Trakai, Lithuania Almost feels like Slovenia 2005 - Beautiful summer sun, beer and flip flops. We're in Vilnius, Lithuania.. Didn't think we'd be here right now but here we are. We had a tough time deciding where to go following Germany's loss in the world cup. Berlin was within easy reach to hit up and watch the finals there but guess
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Baltic Graffiti – A Photo Essay
Blog: Brooke vs. the World | RTW Travel Blog - 27 April 2010
I spent around 6 weeks in the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia back in 2008.
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My 3 Best Kept Travel Secrets
Blog: Brooke vs. the World | RTW Travel Blog - 11 February 2010
I have recently been nominated by Linda Fairbairn of Journey Jottings to participate in the “3 Best Kept Travel Secrets” project. I’m happy to finally get to take my turn, and if you like what I have to say, why not subscribe to my feed? 1.) Overnight in a Yurt on Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan Get [...]
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Lady in Lithuania
Blog: A Lady in London - 1 February 2010
The Hill of Crosses could very well be renamed The Mound of Crosses. I didn’t even notice it as I drove down the main highway just to the left of it. Approaching the monument from the parking lot, I felt like I was walking towards a twig-covered grassy knoll rather than a popular tourist destination and the most important religious pilgrimage site in the Baltics.
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Look Upon This Picture, And On This...
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 26 November 2009
When is a famous historic building not a famous historic building? When it's a scale model, of course.In last week's Canberra post I talked about our visit to Cockington Green Gardens, a tourist attraction filled with miniature replicas of English village settings. However, it also has an international section.
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7 best museums for torture and genocide
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 25 August 2009
1. Kriminalmuseum, Große Sperlgasse 24, Vienna, AustriaThis small private crime museum hides one true gem in its basement: A drawing dating back to the Middle Ages that displays the most extraordinary method of torturing women in the otherwise rather repetitive tradition of hunting witches. The drawing represents a chair that combines the best of electric chair and toilet seat engineering, used to holding suspected witches fast while lighting up their pubic hair.
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Joy Division
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 17 August 2009
Ohh man, I didn’t even get a chance to see the Frank Zappa statue in Vilnius. Or the KGB Museum. Gutted. So far it’s the only place other than Berlin, that I’d be actively interested in returning to. I’m sure I’ll get the chance some day. 3 hours after departing on the train from Vilinus [...]
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Turtles in a half-shell
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 16 August 2009
I’ve got The Kooks stuck in my head, I hate the bloody Kooks. They have the sense of humour of your average Bulgarian, as Simon Amstell hilariously exposed. Anyway, moving on to better things. My head feels like gravity is imploding (I don’t even know what that means but that’s what it feels like). It’s [...]
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Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 15 August 2009
Eurolines just printed off the bus ticket I’d bought online and I’m now on my way to Lithuania, all surprisingly easy and efficient. It was 15 Euros which isn’t bad for a just over 4 hour trip. I had a few remaining Lats to get rid of so was buying a plethora of different snacks [...]
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The Curonian Spit
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 28 July 2009
The Curonian Spit is a long, thin and curved sand dune peninsula that divides the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. The northern and the biggest part of the Curonian Spit belongs to the Republic of Lithuania and the other part belongs to Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. A unique World Heritage Site, the Curonian Spit National Park is a great place to explore. Since prehistoric times, humans attempted to prevent the erosion of the Spit. Completely different from the rest of Lithuania, this real Baltic beach setting is ...
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Red Menace: Communist-Era Relics
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 23 July 2009
I was recently writing an article on Vilnius, Lithuania, which started me thinking about all the former communist countries I've visited in Central and Eastern Europe.I love those places.
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Familiarity Breeds Content
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 22 October 2008
I was in a train station when the revelation hit me.
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Lithuania: Comfort Food Central
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 7 June 2008
I've taken a short break from the Lonely Planet job in Poland, to venture across the border into Lithuania.
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