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Lithuania August 2001
I don't know the exact place any more.
Olympus 35RC Iflord Pan F, Epson Perfection 3200
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Gitanas Nausėda, President of Lithuania welcome Mark Rutte (Prime Minister of the Netherlands)
Lina Viltrakienė (Lithuanian Ambassador to the OECD) and Young Tae Kim (Secretary-General, ITF) relax at the Gala Dinner after two days of exchanges during the International Transport Forum's 2023 Summit on "Transport Enabling Sustainable Economies" in Leipzig, Germany on 25 May 2023.
Jean-Baptiste Mattei, NATO Permanent Representative for France; Stelian Stoian, NATO Permanent Representative for Romania; Tomas Valasek, NATO Permanent Representative for Slovakia; Douglas E. Lute, NATO Permanent Representative for the United States; Knut Hauge, NATO Permanent Representative for Norway
KAUNAS, LITHUANIA - DECEMBER 30: Mike James, #3 of Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Gasteiz in action during the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Round 1 game between Zalgiris Kaunas v Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Gasteiz at Zalgirio Arena on December 30, 2015 in Kaunas, Lithuania. (Photo by Alius Koroliovas/EB via Getty Images)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevicius with NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow and the Minister of Defence of Lithuania, Juozas Olekas
A captain of the Lithuanian army, on attachment with the British army, on patrol in Basrah. September 2006.
NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow and the Minister of Defence of Lithuania, Juozas Olekas
Vilnius
Bizarre, beautiful and bewitching, Lithuania's capital seduces visitors with its astonishing Old Town charm. Its chocolate-box baroque skyline littered with the spires of Orthodox and Catholic churches are intoxicating, decadent and fragile - so much so that Unesco has declared this, Europe's largest baroque old town, a World Heritage site. But there's more to this devilishly attractive capital than meets the eye. There is an underlying oddness that creates its soul.
Where else could there be the world's only statue of psychedelic musician and composer Frank Zappa? Or a self-proclaimed, unofficial, independent republic inhabited by artists and dreaming bohemians? Where else is there the spirit of freedom and resistance that existed during Soviet occupation? There are reminders of loss and pain everywhere, from the horror of the KGB's torture cells to the ghetto in the centre of all this beauty where the Jewish community lived before their mass wartime slaughter.
Strange bars glow inside dark courtyards and medieval archways frame the life of the narrow, cobbled streets through which change has swept with panache. Using foreign cash and local vision, this stylish little city has big plans. But new business and infrastructure - even a skyscraper skyline - won't disguise the curious charm of eccentric, soulful Vilnius.
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It is Shrove Tuesday. In Plateliai, EDEN winner of 2008 in Lithuania visitors are welcome to participate in the very ancient celebration with masks and fire.
HOW do you celebrate Shrove Tuesday?
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A guard dressed up in medieval attire, wearing a chainmail, helmet and leg skins made of metal, armed with sword and spear and using a shield for protection, outside the Presidential Palaced in Vilnius.
I'm not sure the President of Lithuania would feel much safer knowing this guard was outside the Presidential Palace, but he sure made for a better photo motive than most modern guards.