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Grūtas Park

Baltic Run Day 4 & 5

Baltic Run New Year's Eve

The Baltic Run continued apace on days 4 & 5, as participants celebrated the end of 2016 in Lithuania, before setting off for Latvia.

Grutas Park, a 20-Hectare Soviet-Era Timewarp

Grutas park

Grutas park is your Dazed in Druskininkai diary option, on the off-chance that, in theory, you’d be thrilled to kick off the New Year in the Centre of Europe a mere couple of hours’ drive away, neither/none of you have, uhh, lost that loving feeling since the previous night, and […]

Top 8 Soviet sites in Lithuania

Like the other Baltic states, Lithuania felt the deadly embrace of the giant Eastern neighbor for centuries. A few decades after they regained their independence the country is still full of mementos of the Soviet regime. Some preserved, some crumbling, some built to commemorate the courage of the small nation […]

Druskininkai – Lithuania’s Historic Spa Town

Some of you may have looked our proposed route and noticed we’re spending the New Year in the Lithuanian town of Druskininkai. I can see what you might be thinking: “why there”?