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We are more than happy to help with any press enquiries,
please call Sally on 0845 094 2125 to discuss how we can assist
| 'St
Petersburg and three more proper winter cities' Andrew
Quested, The Sunday Times, January 2008 |
| VILNIUS
IN winter is straight off the lid of a gift-for-granny
biscuit tin. The city’s venerable buildings drip
with icicles and fairy lights, and its courtyards feel
full of snowed-in secrets. The horizon is hedgehogged
with church spires, and little wooden shacks, apparently
made from wonky planks lashed together with witches’
hair, groan under the weight of the snow.
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| 'Spring
road trip through the Baltics' Julia Brookes,
The Times, December 2007 |
| "We
are a party of four middle-aged friends who are interested
in taking a two to three-week car journey through parts
of Eastern Europe in late spring. We understand that
there may be some problems in a car journey through
this part of the world – including exorbitant
car-rental costs, poor road conditions, unusually high
traffic accident fatalities, limited road breakdown
services and so on. Can you help us to focus on a suitable
itinerary and address some of the issues that may be
involved?"... read Times travel expert Julia Brookes
response here... |
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| 'Meet
the ancestors' Olivia Gordon, Psychologies,
April 2007 |
'Genealogy holidays' - trips that help you trace your
family and follow in their cultural footsteps - have
never been more popular. Olivia Gordon travels to Lithuania
and goes back in time... |
Read
the feature here...coming soon... |
'Baltic
States Festival' at The Forum in Norwich,
organised by the BBC, Norwich MIND & Baltic Link
Trust, Saturday 17th February 2007 |
In
order to celebrate the large community of people from
the Baltic States living and working in Norfolk, this
festival was organised with the aim of raising awareness,
communication and understanding between the visiting
and local communities. There was a colourful mix of
crafts people from Lithuania, musicians from Latvia
and Estonia, short films about the countries, and
you could try local foods too. We were there to provide
information on how best to visit the countries and
what there is to see and do! The day's events were
topped off by an evening concert and fashion show
by two Lithuanian designers. |
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| 'Baltic
Beauty' Andrew Quested, The Sunday Times,
Sunday 14th January 2007 |
Still haven’t found a beach? Andrew Quested tries
something completely different
After decades of being knocked from pillar to post,
surviving in the shadow of history’s most oppressive
moustaches, and various other miscellaneous hardships
and humiliations, Lithuania has wound up being the largest
of the Baltic states, but having the least Baltic sea
frontage. Ripped off! The mere 60 miles of Lithuanian
coast, however, should not be overlooked. Geography,
creativity and something that can only be described
as Lithuanianity have conspired to leave Europe’s
quirkiest little country with mischievously good beachy
bits.
You want a whey-hey-hey beach party with a cast of extras
from Baywatch? No problem. You want to kick back in
a seaside shanty and buy smoked fish from a man with
a smoked face? Step this way. Or maybe you just want
to stroll on a squeaky beach until your own footsteps
drive you styrofoam-insane? You can do that too. And
here’s the best bit: if you’re not sure
what you want, these various options are so close together
that you can easily flit between them.
Tour operators: Baltics and Beyond (0845 094 2125, www.balticsandbeyond.com)
has seven nights in Palanga from £460pp, B&B,
including three-star accommodation, flights from London
to Palanga and transfers.
Read
the feature here... |
| 'Time
Capsules' Jill Crawshaw, The Times,
Saturday 8th July 2006 |
If you want to travel back in time, visit that pair
of Baltic oddities Kaliningrad and Belarus, where there’s
still scarcely a rent in the Iron Curtain. Kaliningrad,
an isolated island in the middle of the EU, still belongs
to Russia, its city “a concrete monstrosity”,
according to Sally Chambers, who has launched a specialist
tour operation, Baltics and Beyond. “Expect a
Soviet throwback with old tanks, submarines, even statues
of Lenin,” she says.
Much of Belarus resembles rural England of a century
ago with its horses and carts, folk festivals and wooden
villages. Its capital, Minsk, is another Soviet-style
city, complete with KGB-style headquarters.
Three-night B&B breaks with flights to Kaliningrad
start at £370. Three-night B&B breaks to Minsk
start at £365, while a week touring the countryside
staying in farms and guesthouses starts at £559.
Baltics and Beyond (0845 094 2125, www.balticsandbeyond.com).
Read
the feature here... |
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