Posts Tagged ‘ Lithuania ’

The announced changes won’t please the travel industry

Seven countries have been added to the list to which Irish reidents can visit. The UK has added teo but taken another two off.

Legend has it in Lithuania that you can hear farm animals speak on the night before Christmas.

Would a series about a nuclear disaster encourage you to visit a nuclear power plant. The Lithuanians think it will.

Apparently, according to the local tourist board, it only takes 1,969 steps to take in the main sightseeing attractions of the old town in Vilnius!

In the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, one of the more Bohemian areas is called Užupis. For a start this area is a republic within the country – or that is how it describes itself.

As summer ends Adrian looks at new campaigns by Singapore, South Africa and Thailand to entice us to visit them for a winter sun break. But first there is the Last Night of the Proms and Proms in the Park

In a busy week, the BA cabin crew strike begins but. on the plus side. there are the 4th of July celebrations and the London Korea Festival is on next Saturday.

A few snippets from Adrian’s trip to America start his column this week before he wonders why so many of us confuse the Brighton Pavilion with the Taj Mahal.

It is a week of museum news and the growth of British tourists to Mexico as well as horse racing on ice! Adrian rounds up the lesser-covered stories of the week.

As the year nears it’s end, Adrian looks at holiday promotions that are under way or about to start but forgets to thank readers for putting up with his sometimes acerbic comments during the year!

For some reason – maybe to forget the rain of yesterday and today – Adrian seems to have concentrated on warm places with spectacular beaches like Antigua, the British Virgin Islands and the Isle of Wight!

Tenerife urges its citizens to be nicer to visitors whilst Venetian officials embezzle money meant for saving the city. It’s Adrian’s summing up the other items in tourism this week.

The more unusual and strange an attraction is it seems the more we are drawn to it. But would you go the trouble of visiting a KGB bunker in the Nemenčinė forest in Lithuania? Especially if it meant dressing as an inmate?

This week, stories about a wallaby, the demilitarized zone in South Korea, the second female Lord Mayor of London, petrol-head attractions and food forgeries attract Adrian’s pen!

Anthony Lydekker lets us in on Lithuania’s other capitals

Anthony Lydekker gives us his verdict on Vilnius – the capital of Lithuania and its largest city