The small, lozenge-shaped Meilės Sala (Love Island) on the Nemunas to the northwest of the town requires a boat or a bracing swim to reach it, but is more than worth the effort if you’re looking for a little isolation. Curiously, between the wars when the Nemunas formed the border between Lithuania and Poland, the little island was split in two by a barbed wire fence. Although no records remain regarding whether the Lithuanians used their half or not, the Poles continued to visit in droves over a footbridge that unfortunately no longer remains, where they’d lie on the southern beach a few metres away from a country they were technically at war with.