May 2023. Right. Let’s finish these Baltic posts and get back to Blighty. But I can’t leave without urging you to visit Kaunas and drop in to the Kiemo Galerija. You begin to see why the city was a Capital of Culture last year. OK, it’s not quite Bristol, but it’s tasteful and uncommercialised and… Continue reading Bye Bye Kaunas.
Tag: Baltics
BEETROOT JUICE
May 2023. Two more Baltic posts, I reckon. I want to get the West Ham one out before their big night tomorrow. On the last night in Kaunas I’d popped down to the confluence of the rivers Niemen and Neris. I’ve always wanted to use “confluence” in my blog. The Old Town and the parks… Continue reading BEETROOT JUICE
KAUNAS EUROVISION KOUNTDOWN
May 2023. Anyone sensible would have gone straight to bed after the 9.2% Baltic Porter but I’m afraid I’d already had a look at the top-rated Kaunas bars on Rate Beer (does anyone actually use Rate Beer anymore ?) and I felt obliged to pop in the Number 1 on the list. The policeman across… Continue reading KAUNAS EUROVISION KOUNTDOWN
RESIST THE 9.2% BALTIC PORTER ! RESIST !
May 2023. Back in Kaunas I kindly let Mrs RM catch the bus from the station back towards the Old Town, where we had a rather austere and old-fashioned tea in Kauno Bokštas near the Millers Turret. I presume that’s “Mothers Meatballs“, about £8, and like everything we had in the Baltics good quality and… Continue reading RESIST THE 9.2% BALTIC PORTER ! RESIST !
Ticking Užupis
May 2023. Towards the river, Vilnius gets seriously gorgeous, We didn’t tick off any pubs craft beer bars in Vilnius, but we did add a new country to our list. Uzupis, a land of 7,000 east of the Vilnia River is Lithuania’s capital, has a border control, an army (retired) and an anthem, possibly stolen… Continue reading Ticking Užupis
VITAL VILNIUS
May 2023. For a moment on Saturday morning I wondered if Mrs RM was going to attempt a new country tick in Belarus (Minsk 3:25 hours away); but sense and UK Government advice prevailed and we settled for a second Lithuanian city. This was the hectic scene at Kaunas’s station at 09:30. One train an… Continue reading VITAL VILNIUS
WHY PICK KAUNAS ?
May 2023. My most-read post of 2023* is the one about a Greene King Flaming Grill family pub in Sleaford, which rather confirms my view you’d rather read about provincial British like than Baltic craft bars. That’s a shame, as I was enjoying posting about weird Riga beers a day too late to be useful… Continue reading WHY PICK KAUNAS ?
THE SINGING SLOVAKS
May 2023. Oops. Thursday night should have been the end of our Riga rolics, but with a bus to Kaunas at 2pm we had time to kill on Friday morning. Time to tick most of the remaining items on our To Do list, including the Three Brothers, and the unlisted Colonel, with possibly the best… Continue reading THE SINGING SLOVAKS
“It looks like a Scalextric track”. One last Riga craft bar and then we’re off.
May 2023. Pretty much done with Riga now; you can always follow @SirQuinno and @Sir_Doris on Twit if you want more. But you’ll be wanting your Baltic cat before we go; They like their cats in Riga, particularly the ornamental ones, and it’s a city that doesn’t suffer from dog mess, always a blessing of… Continue reading “It looks like a Scalextric track”. One last Riga craft bar and then we’re off.
That Quinten Taylor gets EVERYWHERE
May 2023. Our apartment in Riga behind St Peters was very nice; well-equipped, quirky, and with stellar views into other peoples apartments, always a bonus, But you don’t come to Riga for 36 hours and spent time doing blog posts in your apartment when there’s bars scoring 76 on Rate Beer to visit. Folkklubs Ala… Continue reading That Quinten Taylor gets EVERYWHERE
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