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• Klaipėda Parachute Club

  
  Klaipėda » Directory » Sport & Leisure

  Leave your new overweight Norwegian expat friends in the pub and get thee to this place. Run by a bunch of appropriately crazy albeit responsible when it matters locals, bring your parachute or learn how to do it courtesy of an old AN-2 and a Cessna 175. Read on
  

• Romain Gary

  
  Vilnius » Sightseeing » Statues & Memorials

  Born and raised a few doors from here at what’s now J. Basanavičiaus 18 as Romain Kacew (Katsev), Romain Gary became a prize-winning French author after moving to the country with his mother when he was 14. Read on
  

• Baltos Lankos

  
  Klaipėda » Shopping » Books etc

  A large shop with a small selection of international best-selling paperbacks and travel guides in English. The top place in town for books in English. Read on
  

• Janina Monkutė-Marks Gallery

  
  Kėdainiai » Sightseeing » Places of interest

  Janina Monkutė-Marks was born in the Lithuanian town of Radviliškis before WWII, receiving her education in and around the Kėdainiai region. Read on
  

• Russian Orthodox Church

  
  Druskininkai » Sightseeing » Churches

  Originally built between 1861 and 1865, this diminutive blue wooden building is delightful, both inside and out. When you've finished gaping in wonder at the exterior (unfortunately the glazed cupolas can’t be visited) go through the main door and be astonished at the sheer splendour of the array of icons and religious paintings scattered throughout. Read on
  

• Evangelical-Lutheran Church

  
  Nida » Sightseeing » Churches

  Dating from 1888, this classic red brick Gothic beauty functioned as a museum during Soviet times and was handed back to the Church exactly a century after its construction. Read on
  

• Navalis

  
  Klaipėda » Restaurants & Cafés » Cafés

  Hugely popular with the city's business community as well as local celebrity wives and all manner of other home-grown characters, expect reasonable service, superb espresso, a wonderful value weekday business lunch and the possibility to eat from the menu of the classy if almost always empty restaurant next door. Read on
  

• Evangelical Reformed Church & Radvila Mausoleum

  
  Kėdainiai » Sightseeing » Churches

  Dating from the first half of the 17th century this large and fairly unassuming church built at the behest of Kristupas Radvila II is more famous for what lies underneath it than for anything found inside. Read on
  

• Mūsų Verbena

  
  Šiauliai » Hotels » Guesthouses

  A smidgen north of the action but well worth the extra taxi fare or muscle power, this lovely little inter-war period guesthouse has been renovated to reflect the style of the time when it was built. Read on