Lithuania isn't known as a prime tourist destination. Maybe it will be one day. Maybe one day tourists will discover magic which will draw them to the Baltics in such numbers that Lithuania will become a place where, when you really have no idea where to go, you go there. Because you know there's no way how you could ever have a bad time there. ...

We'd just finished celebrating Ellen's birthday; a meal of wild boar, mashed potatoes and fried potatoes covered with cowberries and a bottle of Argentinian Malbec. I was rubbing my roundish belly and started wondering if we North Americans are being duped. These people appear stronger and healthier than we do. All those advertising campaigns ab...