Category Archives: Lithuania
Sea of Flowers
(Photographed in Kaunas, Lithuania.)
Top 10 Ethical Travel Destinations? I doubt that.
I don’t know why people need lists with suggestions for travel destinations. Do people really sit at home without any idea and wait for “the top 10 travel destinations in 2015”, “the most underrated travel destinations this year” and “the … Continue reading
What do Love Locks say about your Relationship?
Why do people use love locks as a symbol for their relationship? They symbolize lack of freedom. Prisoners and kidnapped children are rotting behind doors closed with locks like these. You use them for your basement to store stuff that you never need anymore, but … Continue reading
Medininkai
Most people only visit the small village of Medininkai to climb Lithuania’s two highest mountains. I didn’t stay long either after my mountain tour, but I still paid a visit to the wooden church and the castle. The church was closed. From the … Continue reading
Why I don’t play the Lottery
Because it’s a Soviet scam, a Communist charade: In the novel Twelve Chairs, Ilja Ilf and Evgeny Petrov describe how the Soviet Union organized steamship tours, accompanied by orchestras and dance groups, whose goal it was to get people to sign … Continue reading
Horse in the Snow
Horses are tough. At least in Lithuania, where they have to live in the snow for half of the year. (Photographed during my hike to Lithuania’s highest mountain.)
In the Lithuanian Alps
Zur deutschen Fassung dieses Artikels. Boyan Stoyanov is a mountaineer from Bulgaria who is on a mission to climb the highest mountain in each European country. This includes tough nuts like Mont Blanc, Triglav or Elbrus. Luckily, Boyan visited me when I lived in Lithuania. The … Continue reading
The Revolutions of 1989
1989, those were the times! With each broadcast of the evening news, the world changed so quickly that most people already lost track back then. Now, 25 years later, only a vague recollection of falling walls, fired shots and popping champagne … Continue reading
A lonely chair
I saw this at a frozen lake in Grutas, Lithuania and it made for a peaceful resting place after a long walk through the forest. I wondered if somebody had left it on purpose or if he/she thought “I’ll pick … Continue reading
I am on the cover of a book.
Well, not me personally, but one of my photos. No, not a photo of myself, a photo I took. Maybe you remember this photo from my report on Europos Parkas, an outdoor museum hidden deep in a forest in Lithuania? … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 