Wishing all who are celebrating this Christmas holiday a very merry day. May Santa bring you everything you wish for and more! Today we say Merry Christmas in various languages:
Hawaiian - Mele Kalikimaka !
Catalan - Bon Nada!
Lithuanian - Linksmu Kaledu!
Dutch - ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Word for the Travel Wise (12/25/06)
Wishing all who are celebrating this Christmas holiday a very merry day. May Santa bring you everything you wish for and more! Today we say Merry Christmas in various languages:
Hawaiian - Mele Kalikimaka !
Catalan - Bon Nada!
Lithuanian - Linksmu Kaledu!
Dutch - ...Word for the Travel Wise (11/08/06)
Seems as though I've never met anyone who went to the Baltics and came back raving about the food. Two words that I've often heard to describe the fare are bland and spice-less. Unless spicy flavorsome food does a number on your stomach I can't fathom why anyone would order ...Word for the Travel Wise (06/26/06)
Open-air museums are by far some of the coolest to check out when visiting any destination. Nice sunny weather, absorbing folk art, architectural dwellings, not to mention a variety of other exhibits at Lithuania's Open Air Museum in Rumsiskes couldn't make for a better day ...Red Corner: Lithuanian Beer Corpse Blows 7.27
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It is well known that Europeans love their alcohol. Eastern Europeans, at least according to my experience, love it even more. In fact, it's no surprise that the Czech Republic leads the world in beer consumption. Spare a moment, however, for the Lithuanians, who, thanks to ...Stalin's World Theme Park A Hit
A few months ago, Neil Woodburn introduced us to Grutas Park, in Lithuania. The park, also known as "Stalin's World," is a beautiful park filled with statues of some of Communism's truly horrible leaders. Neil described this park as his personal favourite, saying ...Red Corner: Latvian Women
I couldn't resist taking a peek at an article in The Baltic Times entitled, 10 Things Not to Say to a Latvian Woman. For those of you men out there who have traveled through Latvia and found yourself enjoying the beauty of its women as much as the beauty of its cities and ...Red Corner: Vilnius, Tallinn, and Riga
The Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were the last to be incorporated into the Soviet Union, and boy do they show it. The extra 20 years of European influence can still be seen today as these three countries, now independent, are rapidly becoming hot tourist ...Red Corner: Illegal Lithuanian Jazz Festival Jams Away
This last weekend, the Lithuanian town of Birštonas held its semi-annual jazz festival. The Birštonas Jazz Festival is perhaps the least known jazz festival on this planet. It takes place in a small town on the Nemunas River with a population of only 3800 ...Red Corner: Baltic Summer
Summer is still a little ways off but not so far that you can't start thinking about where to go. And if Europe is on your mind, but the crowds that plague the Mediterranean make you cringe, then consider vacationing a bit further north in the Baltics.
The weather is a tad ...Red Corner: Baltic Spas
I'm not sure how I got on the theme of bathhouses and saunas this week, but the fact is that such methods of relaxation have a long history in the former communist lands and today remain extraordinarily popular throughout this part of the world.
The sanatorium (more ...Red Corner: From Lenin Statues to Zappa Busts
There is perhaps no greater act of revolution than pulling down a leader's statue and dancing on its head. In the former Soviet Union, where there were more Lenin statues per capita than any other figure in the history of mankind, there were plenty of dancing ...Red Corner: Communist Statue Parks
Yesterday's Red Corner post discussed the handful of Lenin statues which remain standing in various corners of the former Evil Empire. Most were simply never pushed over and stand today in the same spot in which they were erected so many years ago.
If you are interested in ...Word for the Travel Wise (02/11/06)
While this Eastern European city may be the country's third in terms of size and population many residents would actually place it in second. Capital city and first place holder is said to have the kind of ambiguity and diversity of influences that keep it from feeling ...Red Corner: Baltic States vs. United States
What are the differences between the Baltic States and the United States?
Well, there are quite a few-beginning with the fact that most any Baltic citizen over the age of ten can find America on a map, while most Americans can't even identify the three Baltic States ...New Zealand Best for Biz
You'd think that as a country with an MBA president, this one would be a no-brainer for the old US of A. Didn't our motto used to be something like "The business of America is business"...or something like that? Well, the World Bank (curse them!) has determined that New ...
