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Around The World In "\ 0 8 0" Days

Stalin’s Birthday Cake

It’s a pretty miserable looking Soviet-era building, but it doe offer views of much better parts of Riga.

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This entry was posted in "Baltic Adventure" tour and tagged Latvia on August 19, 2017 by Matthew.

Between the lagoon and the sea

The Curonian Spit is a sand spit between the freshwater Curonian Lagoon and the saltwater Baltic Sea.

To get there, first we put the whole damn bus on the ferry.

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This entry was posted in "Baltic Adventure" tour, Uncategorized and tagged Lithuania on August 18, 2017 by Matthew.

A castle (not) by the sea

The story goes that the second wife of Duke Kęstutis, Birutė came from the Curonian coast and therefore did not want to live in Vilnius which was far from the sea. To make up for it, the Duke built the island castle at Trakai.


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This entry was posted in "Baltic Adventure" tour and tagged castle, Lithuania on August 16, 2017 by Matthew.

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