Tag: Baltics
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Visit to the Baltic Countries: Part 3 – Vilnius, Lithuania
In part 3 of 3 of our visit to the Baltic Countries, we travel from Latvia to Lithuania. We have a great friend from Lithuania, and we were really looking forward to seeing her home country. So far, we found the capital cities of Tallinn and Riga quite different from each other, and we were…
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Visit to the Baltic Countries: Part 2 – Riga, Latvia
This Story is part 2 of 3 of our Visit to the Baltic Countries. We left Tallinn, Estonia in an Avis rental car and planned to drive through Estonia into Latvia, stopping at a few sites before arriving at our next home base in the capital city of Riga. The weather so far had varied…
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Visit to the Baltic Countries: Part 1 – Tallinn, Estonia
The Baltic Countries include Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, located on the Baltic Sea, across from Finland and Sweden, and bordered by Russia, Belarus, and Poland. When we first started planning to visit one or more of the Baltic Countries, we asked other travelers for advice on where we should go. The answer consistently came back