Jo Kessel travels to Lithuania’s Baltic coast to delve into her family history - her grandfather was Lithuanian She visits a 'gaspingly striking beach' in the seaside resort of Nida, which lies on the ...

Standing next to one of the largest, most mathematically correct sundials in the world, I have no idea what time it is. I can’t read the Lithuanian instructions, the order and spacing of numbered ...

The Curonian Spit, named after one of the early Baltic tribes that inhabited the region, is a curious place, a 60 mile-long finger of sand that stretches upwards from Russian Kaliningrad to within a ...

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I felt on top of the world, surrounded on all sides by undulating mountains of sand. A vigorous 45-minute hike had brought me to the peak of the dunes. But I wasn't in North Africa. In fact, I was ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Romas looks grave. "Tomorrow will be hilly," the cycling guide warns, foreshadowing a day of gruelling climbs on our bikes. As he talks, ...