EuroCheapo's Vilnius Articles

Celebrity, Lithuanian-Style

Feb 05 Klubas (Photograph: diarchy.lt) One of the most exciting things about visiting a new place is discovering the local celebrity infrastructure. While in Vilnius we came across Klubas, a Lithuanian celebrity magazine. Singer Dove is featured on the cover of the current issue (thanks to a digital camera mishap, another cover is reproduced above) and also » Read more

Posted in Media, Vilnius

In Your Pocket’s Exciting Destinations

In Your Pocket’s Exciting Destinations

Feb 02 During our time on the ground in Lithuania, we found ourselves enjoying the Vilnius edition of In Your Pocket. The guide’s listings are animated and hilarious, offering snappy overviews of restaurants, hotels, sights, and nightclubs. We found their review of one restaurant’s cepelinai as “a limbless teddybear drowned in snail slime” breathtaking. (Incidentally, at their » Read more

Posted in City Guides, Eastern Europe, Vilnius

Cheap Bed Alert: Litinterp

Cheap Bed Alert: Litinterp

Feb 01 Litinterp is a one-of-a-kind business. It’s not just a string of hotels across Lithuania, but also a translation service and car rental company. Ahh, those enterprising Balts! Litinterp runs guesthouses in Vilnius, Kaunas, and Klaipeda as well as apartments in Vilnius, Klaipeda, and Nida. After a three-night stay at Litinterp’s Vilnius guesthouse, we can’t say » Read more

Posted in Vilnius

Vilnius City Break

Vilnius City Break

A good trip restores and refreshes. I’m especially refreshed today, after a week spent between Stockholm and Vilnius. While Stockholm is (delightfully) old hat—a place where metro connections between my friends’ apartments and the center of the city are seared into my brain—Vilnius was a new discovery. The capital of Lithuania is a beautiful place, » Read more

Posted in Vilnius