Kaunas

📌 We flew out of tiny Liverpool airport late on Saturday night to arrive in Lithuania. Luckily we were able to enter the EU, our lack of knowledge of the Schengen visa, almost resulted in us spending too much time in the EU over the last 180 days and therefore entry could have been denied, we had about 10 days leeway. Of course it was Chloe that was questioned, and I went straight through 😂

📌 We were staying in an old building from the 1900s used by the shipping community, apparently we were in the captains mistress quarters. The weather was cold, as expected, but it was still nice to wander around Kaunas. It was quite a small city but it was lovely, the Christmas decorations and nice lit up trees and streets added to the winter charm.

📌 We also visited a labour camp/fort that became a concentration camp during the Nazi regime. It was interesting to see how another part of Europe was affected by the war, adding another layer to what we have already seen and learnt in the past year. In the evening's we enjoyed the small Christmas market, some breweries and we sampled the local Lithuanian foods, which we are not overly enthusiastic for, given the amount of potato/carb Europe we have been travelling of late.Baca selengkapnya