Lithuanians did not want to addopt Euro. Our ex the worst prezident Grybauskaitė who was doing things she was told by EU, Nation Union and most importany and richest families did that...
@ hey, nice name! I’d not even considered making a video about that, thanks so much for the idea! I also had some family living in Kaunas/Kovno in the early 1900s.
@ my dad was born in 1917 (I’m 62). I’d imagine your family’s journey from Lithuania is an outstanding story (an assumption based upon my father’s), and I’d love to learn about it. Outside of academic resources (and even within them), there’s very little content available about that “trip”, and who better than a travel influencer with a personal connection to tell it! 🙂
We are planning on visiting all three of the Baltic countries in summer 2024. No flight needed, we'll drive with our car and caravan from the very West of Germany. In two weeks, new travel guide books are going to be publishes, so we haven't bought any yet. Iki means good bye - funny, it means the number 2 in Turkish.
Funny coincidence about “iki,” thanks for sharing. That sounds like a great trip for summer 2024, and a good chance to see some of Poland on the way too!
@@aurered6387 My Lithuanian is only at a moderate level, but I can say for sure that iki, ate, and viso gero can all be translated to the English word "bye." In this video I chose to keep it simple and just give a handful of Lithuanian words to get everyone started.
Even number of flowers is not so much bad luck, just that the tradition is to place even number of flowers on graves. So you can imagine the connotation gifting 2 flowers to someone... you know... alive :D
Thank you about talking Lithuanian history, that means a lot, cuz a lot people thinks that we are part of russia, but we hate russia and never wanted to be part of them for the stuff they did to our grandpas/grandmas sending them to Siberia to die and a lot of other bad stuff they did to our country. Latvians, Estonians hate them too almost for the same reason. Good video
Thanks for the comment :). I'm a strong believer you can find good people anywhere. But, I'm very glad to be able to visit Lithuania frequently, and I hope to a bit more a talking about it in future videos soon. 🇱🇹
@@DavidGTravelsSummer is the best time to showcase Lithuania. Winter slop and gloomy skies can really paint a pretty depressing picture of the country. But if everything is covered in bright, white, fluffy snow, then life is good again.
Lithuania looks much better in summer. Come back in summer and you will see all beauty🙂 thanks for the video, it is interesting to see what tourists think about our country ✌️
I've been to Vilnius on a business trip 3 weeks ago, and liked very much. The airline I'm working for now is from Lithuania, therefore, I will probably have more opportunities to return, hopefully.
@@DavidGTravels Avion Express, which is opening a branch here in Brazil. By the way, you mentioned the surname Litvac on your video...is this your surname?
A little remark... In lithuanian "iki" means "see ya". It is used often in friendly manner, because, if we, lithuanians, like the person, we'd like to meet him/her again later. "Viso gero" is more official way to say goodby.
Being from Latvia my fam and I have visited our beautiful Lithuanian sister country quite some times and one thing that imo was one of the coolest places in Lithuania was Neringa it is part of the Curonian spit and has an aquarium too, the fishing village with the low fences and beautiful thatch roofs and surrounding area are still fond memories for me. Also the story behind the name Neringa was a fun aspect of local lore and I think it was close to the dune of death which is almost a small desert in Lithuania with huge sand dunes, I remember it somehow being close to a witch hill, but It was a couple decades ago when I visited, could be wrong. Also the Japanese garden in Lithuania is an interesting destination, but you need a car to go there. Another of my personal favorites is the Amber museum and its surrounding garden in Palanga. The museum is pretty fun, but the park is huge and has a very old oak tree that is quite huge. I think there was another small town that is a nice memory for me in Lithuania. somewhere closer to the Japanese gardens is a winter palace of some sort if I remember correctly, with huge trees nearby and a beautiful indoor greenhouse botanical garden. But that town is more like a place to stop in between locations not a full day of activities if I remember correctly.
Cool video! One thing - budget friendly?! I noticed another RUclipsr say the same thing and I find it kind of shocking. Lithuania is a pretty expensive country considering all things. I’m from the UK and my wife is Lithuanian, we visit regularly. Pretty much everything costs the same as the UK.. perhaps more! Albeit, I guess it depends what kind of trip and activities you desire!
Thanks for watching! From the Lithuanian perspective Lithuania is expensive, but visitors often see it as budget friendly. It’s definitely getting pricier with inflation though, the same goes for many things when you compare prices in many Western European countries to Lithuania now.
You can enter Lithuania from Denmark by plane or any other European country to Palanga airport.Then either to rent the car after you come or there are taxis (50 eu from Palanga to Klaipeda)or busses to Klaipeda( they are cheaper).There are also the flights from Europe to Kaunas airport.
Kaunas and Palanga are very underserved airports with few flights and mostly high fares. Most arrivals are to VNO. And by the way, there is decent public transport between Palanga, Palanga Airport, and Klaipeda for around 5 euros.
I traveled many countries in Europe. To me the best are where people are nice My favorite are: Lithuania the people are friendly girls and guys. Croatia the people are very nice girls and guys alike. Poland the guys are not very friendly, but the girls are very friendly and easy to make friends. Those are the best countries to visit in Europe. Go where you are treated best.
I live in užupis, the “indipendence” thing is more of a symbolic gag rather than how the government and local authorities actually interact 😁 the idea was modelled after christiania in denmark, but christiania has a lot more legitimate indipendence from the city of copenhagen as they can sell grass there without police interferring. uzupis never reached that level of self-organisation as christiania. sadly. the artist population in uzupis and nida are large because the art academy is right next to uzupis, a lot of art galleries there, whereas nida is where the all the artists from the academy do their practice there officially. ive studied there so im giving you inside info😁
Thanks for sharing, super cool to read and I’m sure other folks reading through comments will find this helpful! Užupis and Nida are two my absolute favorite places in Lithuania.
@@DavidGTravels if you go to nida during the period when the academy is doing the practises for their students (especially the students of the new multimedia cathedral aka the “titanic”: the photographers, animators, etc.) you can go to the academy’s buildings where the artists live during the day and im 100% sure you’d be able to interact with the practising artists there, get to hang around, get content and perhaps even party. heck, i remember when i was there, there were always other people who were hanging about and making friends with us who weren’t from the academy, especially interesting foreigners. it was pretty wild. the academy had a lot of crazed artist party-heads when i was there, and i don’t think it has changed. if you get in on the lecturers and profs. good graces by for example making content about the academy while there, or generally with some kind of artistic endavour and good vibes, they are likely to welcome you. here’s to hoping thing haven’t gotten stricter since i left, but i seriously doubt it.
Great and throughout video. As a lithuanian I can confirm no lies were told in this video. Although I would really reccomend coming here only during may-semptember as other months as clearly in his video are quite depressing, rainy, wet and muddy. Decemeber and around christmas it can be also nice if it happens to snow a lot and you're up for winter snowy christmas vibe, but be prepared with proper winter clothes, scarf, hat, gloves etc. as it can get to -15c-20c sometimes
I lived in uk for 6 years and as a lithuanian I didnt get the joke about english weather at all. Compared to Lt, Uk is all clear and sunshine. At least east coast imo. But yeah summers are nice and winters used to be nice. Now we get a snowy weak or two then back to mud and broken bones.
@@DavidGTravels sure, but I was talking more about an option renting a homestead appartment to experience living in a remote coutryside where nature is a bit more wild, that sometimes comes option of participating/trying out activities of farm residents, aswell as rental treehoeses in forsets, or camp houses near the lakes.
@@DavidGTravels Yea it applies to lithuania too. Whistling inside the house means you're inviting devil to your house or your house will be emptied. Although those superstitions exists in modern times it's nothing more than something people just know. It's just sort of funny thing to mention, but not to be worried about. Probably grandmas in their 70s or something only care about such things
@@DavidGTravelsYes thats a thing 😃 My parents and almost every other person will tell you "Its not the forest" or "Go to the forest if you want to whistle" 😁 Im not entirely sure but its probably because hunters in the forest would scream and whistle 😁
There is a superstition in Russian and Latvian culture "if you whistle inside a house you are going to loose money" (don't know who picked it from who). I have heard Lithuanian brothers have something similar but it was not related to money but some other thing. Don't know if it's true though
Dont go to Klaipeda [if you have limited time], go to Palanga instead. Klaipeda is just regular city, while Palanga is for tourists/attractions based city. Also very unique is Juodkrante, Nida. To get there you will need to take ferry
@@DavidGTravels yup, because Lithuania itself at its beginning was a like confederation of different Baltic tribes united by some millitary structure. Imagine if u visit Baltic lands thousand years ago, u should deal with some power called Leta. How u would describe those lands after that ? Even those days Im Lithuanian but in fact Im half Samogitian and half Suvalk. Lithuanian is still mostly politonym
Hey thanks for the comment. I actually have visited Kaunas a few times, it’s nice and I even have some family roots in Kaunas! I mention it later on in the video along with Rumšiškės if you didn’t see that part.
Greetings from Canada thanks for sharing this video I'm interested in train travel throughout Europe according to Rick steves from the United States Europe through the backdoor, what's the currency the euro €
Hey there, thanks for commenting! Lithuania has some nice train routes, the Trakai and Klaipeda train routes I mentioned in the video are nice. There’s also the route that goes up to Visaginas that I haven’t had the chance to take yet. And then they just opened up a new route to Riga last month, so that could be useful. A lot of towns only have bus service, so train travel is not quite as prominent as in some other European countries.
Not bad, I don't usually watch this sort of stuff but you kept me engrossed from start to finish stick at it! BTW I'm only here cause I was watching vids on country with best woman to man percentage and they score high so you were lucky haha only joking... good skills.
* Name of Lithuania is not derived from "a place where it rains a lot", but from a name of the river "Lietava". Most Lithuanians don't know this for some reason, so it's whatever. :D
lmao "spirigucchi" 🤌, even funnier when reading in Italian accent, I'm stealing that. The Lithuanian spelling is "spirgučiai" though and when pronounced correctly it doesn't sound too Italian.
Interesting point of view, thanks for commenting. Wizzair and Ryanair have two of the largest route networks in Europe, so it would be surprising if they didn't cover the capital city of any EU country really. Of course the term hidden gem is pretty subjective. But I think based on most interpretations of it, it's a pretty accurate term to apply to Lithuania. And as shown in the video, Lithuania has got a lot of cool stuff to offer that's not well known.
David has chosen the worst season of a year to make this "publicity" for the country. Looking at the puddles and an overcast and rainy sky, you don't want to go there at all. By the way, I am Lithuanian myself. But I do not thank him for showing the country this way.
This isn't an ad or publicity. I just wanted to show people Lithuania during the winter, which I think can be good time to visit. I'll likely show more of Lithuania during summer in another video down the line.
There are NO Baltic States, Only Baltic COUNTRIES. Lithuania was a kingdom once. They were all Ruzzia's Baltic states for a short time. That title is no longer appropriate, and really never was. There are many other countries bordering the Baltic sea which have never been called "states" They are: Denmark, Finland, Germany, , Poland, and Sweden. No need to call any of them "states".
Interesting opinion. In English state and country are pretty interchangeable terms and Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonian are commonly referred to as the Baltic states in academic settings.
As a frequent visitor to Lithuania, the increase in prices with inflation has really been noticeable. Just to take a tiny example, the surelis price I show in the video is almost one euro - three years ago it was about 40 cents. Thanks for checking out the video!
@@DavidGTravels It's why I think it doesn't make sense to advertise Lithuania as a low-cost destination anymore. Usually it's done exclusively by people who lived in Lithuania in the late 2000s, like the Wolters World guy (who still claims we earn an average of 300 euros a month in 2024 because he lived here 20 years ago). I'm told by acquaintances that food and things like clothes are cheaper in Germany. The world has moved on and most of these past experiences are long past relevant.
@@PijusONLINE Fair points for sure, but I'd still consder Lithuania to be a lower-cost destination as far as EU countries go. I find Germany to still be signficantly more expensive than Lithuania for nearly every kind of cost - you could roughly say that the difference in costs between the two countries didn't change that much in the past few years as inflation drove up prices in both countries. I can't really comment about the guy you referred to, but all the prices I share in this video are based on my last trip there this winter. And for sure the minimum salary isn't currently 300 euros a month. Thanks for the comment!
It is one of the oldest languages currently spoken in Europe, but not in the world. Euskera (Basque) is likely the oldest currently spoken language in Europe.
👋Aciu for watching everybody! Out of interest, what would you like to see featured from Lithuania (or other places) in future videos?
Lithuanians did not want to addopt Euro. Our ex the worst prezident Grybauskaitė who was doing things she was told by EU, Nation Union and most importany and richest families did that...
@@ruthb7335 this isn’t a place for your political opinions.
Love to see a video about your family’s story. My dad was from Kovno, landed in Iowa after the war.
@ hey, nice name! I’d not even considered making a video about that, thanks so much for the idea! I also had some family living in Kaunas/Kovno in the early 1900s.
@ my dad was born in 1917 (I’m 62). I’d imagine your family’s journey from Lithuania is an outstanding story (an assumption based upon my father’s), and I’d love to learn about it. Outside of academic resources (and even within them), there’s very little content available about that “trip”, and who better than a travel influencer with a personal connection to tell it! 🙂
Ačiū!!❤️ Great video, thank you!! Greetings from 🇱🇹
Thanks for watching!
We are planning on visiting all three of the Baltic countries in summer 2024. No flight needed, we'll drive with our car and caravan from the very West of Germany. In two weeks, new travel guide books are going to be publishes, so we haven't bought any yet.
Iki means good bye - funny, it means the number 2 in Turkish.
Funny coincidence about “iki,” thanks for sharing. That sounds like a great trip for summer 2024, and a good chance to see some of Poland on the way too!
nope iki means see you soon or be right back
Goodbye in Lithuania is Viso gero 😄
@@aurered6387 My Lithuanian is only at a moderate level, but I can say for sure that iki, ate, and viso gero can all be translated to the English word "bye." In this video I chose to keep it simple and just give a handful of Lithuanian words to get everyone started.
It does mean bye u can use it differently iki greito see you soon means. be right back means in Lithuanian - Tuoj sugrįšiu@@aurered6387
Even number of flowers is not so much bad luck, just that the tradition is to place even number of flowers on graves. So you can imagine the connotation gifting 2 flowers to someone... you know... alive :D
I may or may not have almost done this once 🙊
Thank you about talking Lithuanian history, that means a lot, cuz a lot people thinks that we are part of russia, but we hate russia and never wanted to be part of them for the stuff they did to our grandpas/grandmas sending them to Siberia to die and a lot of other bad stuff they did to our country. Latvians, Estonians hate them too almost for the same reason. Good video
Thanks for the comment :). I'm a strong believer you can find good people anywhere. But, I'm very glad to be able to visit Lithuania frequently, and I hope to a bit more a talking about it in future videos soon. 🇱🇹
Kam čia aiškinate neišprusėliams.Tik tyliai,tyliai.Niekam nereikia sakyti,kokia puiki Lietuva,nes suplūs "netikėliai".
Keep making more videos about lithuania and lithuania will be proud
I’ll keep that in mind, it could be nice to show some more of Lithuania during the summer.
@@DavidGTravelsSummer is the best time to showcase Lithuania. Winter slop and gloomy skies can really paint a pretty depressing picture of the country. But if everything is covered in bright, white, fluffy snow, then life is good again.
@@dolorian_dollar Snow really makes winter nicer, right?!
Lithuania looks much better in summer. Come back in summer and you will see all beauty🙂 thanks for the video, it is interesting to see what tourists think about our country ✌️
I’ve lived in and visited Lithuania during the summer, but the other seasons are also beautiful. Thanks for watching.
thank you for this video. will visit lithuania next summer (hopefully) and this video was insightful!
Glad it was helpful, enjoy your trip!
Greetings ✌🏻 Your channel popped up while I was researching my trip to the Baltics this May. You’ve got some great advice. Thank you!
So glad to hear you found it useful, happy travels!
I've been to Vilnius on a business trip 3 weeks ago, and liked very much. The airline I'm working for now is from Lithuania, therefore, I will probably have more opportunities to return, hopefully.
Cool to hear! Which airline are you with?
@@DavidGTravels Avion Express, which is opening a branch here in Brazil.
By the way, you mentioned the surname Litvac on your video...is this your surname?
Cool, no with Litvak I was just referring the group of Lithuanian Jewish people that brought a lot of their traditions over to the Americas.
Visiting the Hill of Witches is a must. Mystical place, nothing like that exists elsewhere in the world.
Are you talking about the one in Juodkrante? That’s a cool stop on the way to Nida.
Nothing special about the Hill of Witches in our family opinion. Don't waist your time on seeing some ugly wooden idols😂
@@supermom_cherry7583 to each their own
Very good video. Thank you 😊 Greetings from Lithuania
Glad you enjoyed it!
Na tai gražūs žodžiai 😊😊😊
Those words are beautiful ❤❤❤
Ačiū labai!
A little remark... In lithuanian "iki" means "see ya". It is used often in friendly manner, because, if we, lithuanians, like the person, we'd like to meet him/her again later. "Viso gero" is more official way to say goodby.
Aciu!
Good job!Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Really nice video, David! Thoroughly enjoyed watching it❤
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Great video. I'm flying to Vilnius in 2 days. 😊
Nice, enjoy!
Being from Latvia my fam and I have visited our beautiful Lithuanian sister country quite some times and one thing that imo was one of the coolest places in Lithuania was Neringa it is part of the Curonian spit and has an aquarium too, the fishing village with the low fences and beautiful thatch roofs and surrounding area are still fond memories for me. Also the story behind the name Neringa was a fun aspect of local lore and I think it was close to the dune of death which is almost a small desert in Lithuania with huge sand dunes, I remember it somehow being close to a witch hill, but It was a couple decades ago when I visited, could be wrong. Also the Japanese garden in Lithuania is an interesting destination, but you need a car to go there. Another of my personal favorites is the Amber museum and its surrounding garden in Palanga. The museum is pretty fun, but the park is huge and has a very old oak tree that is quite huge. I think there was another small town that is a nice memory for me in Lithuania. somewhere closer to the Japanese gardens is a winter palace of some sort if I remember correctly, with huge trees nearby and a beautiful indoor greenhouse botanical garden. But that town is more like a place to stop in between locations not a full day of activities if I remember correctly.
Cool, nice have the Latvian point of view 😊
Ha! "Place where it rains a lot". I was drenched in horizontal rain in Vilnius last summer but loved the place.
It's just got a certain charm!
Weather in Lithuania is very unstable, so you need to prepare for changeable weather.
I'm from Lithuania, so I know what I'm talking about
@@PauliusMGthanks for sharing!
Yes, changing quickly.But still very seasonable.Winter,Spring,Summer, Fall have their features represented in the full spectrum.
Thanks mate❤
Thanks for watching!
Ačiū im a lithuanian and ur making my country more popular
I hope so!
@@DavidGTravels same
Cool video! One thing - budget friendly?! I noticed another RUclipsr say the same thing and I find it kind of shocking. Lithuania is a pretty expensive country considering all things. I’m from the UK and my wife is Lithuanian, we visit regularly. Pretty much everything costs the same as the UK.. perhaps more! Albeit, I guess it depends what kind of trip and activities you desire!
Thanks for watching! From the Lithuanian perspective Lithuania is expensive, but visitors often see it as budget friendly. It’s definitely getting pricier with inflation though, the same goes for many things when you compare prices in many Western European countries to Lithuania now.
You can enter Lithuania from Denmark by plane or any other European country to Palanga airport.Then either to rent the car after you come or there are taxis (50 eu from Palanga to Klaipeda)or busses to Klaipeda( they are cheaper).There are also the flights from Europe to Kaunas airport.
Kaunas and Palanga are very underserved airports with few flights and mostly high fares. Most arrivals are to VNO.
And by the way, there is decent public transport between Palanga, Palanga Airport, and Klaipeda for around 5 euros.
Superb approach to make videos
So nice of you, glad you enjoyed it!
You won a bed under my roof if in need cause of sūreliai :) nice video mr. David, appreciate it. Love from Lithuania
Awesome! Thank you!
Hi from Lithuanian 😁 nice video and for Bye or goodbye say better 'Viso gero or Ate" xD because 'iki" means see you soon or be right back
Thanks! 😃
Not Ate,but atia.
@@DavidGTravels
I traveled many countries in Europe. To me the best are where people are nice
My favorite are: Lithuania the people are friendly girls and guys. Croatia the people are very nice girls and guys alike.
Poland the guys are not very friendly, but the girls are very friendly and easy to make friends. Those are the best countries to visit in Europe. Go where you are treated best.
Nice
I love everything about Lithuania or Lietuva.
What’s your favorite time of year there?
Nice!🎉🙈🇱🇹
Thanks!
RESPECT ❤ U SIR, GREAT 👍 JOB KEEP IT UP GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL OF 🙏 U'R FAMILY SIR, FROM ( SURANGA ) , SRILANKA
Thanks!
❤ HELLO SIR, U DID GREAT VEDIOE'S , RESPECT 🙏 U AND GOD BLESS ALL OF U'R FAMILY, FROM SURANGA ( SRILANKA )
So nice of you
I live in užupis, the “indipendence” thing is more of a symbolic gag rather than how the government and local authorities actually interact 😁 the idea was modelled after christiania in denmark, but christiania has a lot more legitimate indipendence from the city of copenhagen as they can sell grass there without police interferring. uzupis never reached that level of self-organisation as christiania. sadly. the artist population in uzupis and nida are large because the art academy is right next to uzupis, a lot of art galleries there, whereas nida is where the all the artists from the academy do their practice there officially. ive studied there so im giving you inside info😁
Thanks for sharing, super cool to read and I’m sure other folks reading through comments will find this helpful! Užupis and Nida are two my absolute favorite places in Lithuania.
@@DavidGTravels if you go to nida during the period when the academy is doing the practises for their students (especially the students of the new multimedia cathedral aka the “titanic”: the photographers, animators, etc.) you can go to the academy’s buildings where the artists live during the day and im 100% sure you’d be able to interact with the practising artists there, get to hang around, get content and perhaps even party. heck, i remember when i was there, there were always other people who were hanging about and making friends with us who weren’t from the academy, especially interesting foreigners. it was pretty wild. the academy had a lot of crazed artist party-heads when i was there, and i don’t think it has changed. if you get in on the lecturers and profs. good graces by for example making content about the academy while there, or generally with some kind of artistic endavour and good vibes, they are likely to welcome you. here’s to hoping thing haven’t gotten stricter since i left, but i seriously doubt it.
Sartai looks nice, I've driven near it but haven't had the chance to visit yet. Thanks for the tip!
Great and throughout video. As a lithuanian I can confirm no lies were told in this video. Although I would really reccomend coming here only during may-semptember as other months as clearly in his video are quite depressing, rainy, wet and muddy. Decemeber and around christmas it can be also nice if it happens to snow a lot and you're up for winter snowy christmas vibe, but be prepared with proper winter clothes, scarf, hat, gloves etc. as it can get to -15c-20c sometimes
Thanks for watching! Agree that summer is a nice time to visit, and stay tuned for more Lithuania and other travel videos.
I lived in uk for 6 years and as a lithuanian I didnt get the joke about english weather at all. Compared to Lt, Uk is all clear and sunshine. At least east coast imo. But yeah summers are nice and winters used to be nice. Now we get a snowy weak or two then back to mud and broken bones.
@@xEroxSennin I guess you could basically categorize all of Northern Europe as relatively cloudy 🤷♂
Id like to mention that rural/countryside tourism is also a good option in Lithuania.
Definitely, I especially love mushroom hunting there!
@@DavidGTravels sure, but I was talking more about an option renting a homestead appartment to experience living in a remote coutryside where nature is a bit more wild, that sometimes comes option of participating/trying out activities of farm residents, aswell as rental treehoeses in forsets, or camp houses near the lakes.
You can find Saltibarsciai all year round, no wrong time for saltibarsciai 😂
I like that attitude, but my experience trying to find saltibarsciai in the winter tells me different 😂
He even said Hi in Lithuania which shows how good this country is
Does it?
Even nunber flowers are more for funerals and graves rather than bad luck.
Interesting tradition!
When I was in Estonia, I was told that whistling inside is considered rude. Is that true for other baltic countries?
I didn’t know that, would love to hear if that’s a thing in Lithuania too.
@@DavidGTravels Yea it applies to lithuania too. Whistling inside the house means you're inviting devil to your house or your house will be emptied. Although those superstitions exists in modern times it's nothing more than something people just know. It's just sort of funny thing to mention, but not to be worried about. Probably grandmas in their 70s or something only care about such things
@@DavidGTravelsYes thats a thing 😃 My parents and almost every other person will tell you "Its not the forest" or "Go to the forest if you want to whistle" 😁 Im not entirely sure but its probably because hunters in the forest would scream and whistle 😁
@@gustasraupys6331wow, that’s interesting to know! I’m lucky then because I can’t whistle 😂
There is a superstition in Russian and Latvian culture "if you whistle inside a house you are going to loose money" (don't know who picked it from who). I have heard Lithuanian brothers have something similar but it was not related to money but some other thing. Don't know if it's true though
it does NOT mean place were rains a lot it means place were there is a lot of little rivers all over Lithuania
Interesting interpretation, thanks for sharing!
Dont go to Klaipeda [if you have limited time], go to Palanga instead. Klaipeda is just regular city, while Palanga is for tourists/attractions based city. Also very unique is Juodkrante, Nida. To get there you will need to take ferry
I find Klaipeda and Nida a lot more interesting than Palanga, but I think this can be good advice depending on what someone is interested in.
definetly visit Nida
i am lithuanian and i can say its easy to learn english if u are lithuaniaan
I wish it was easier to learn Lithuanian for English speakers though 😂
I’m only interested in a Lithuanian woman. I had one and she was the sweetest girl I have ever encountered. Love from London
Really?
Lietuva meaning "the place where it rains" is a colloqual etymology. It's more likely to mean "floodlands".
Thanks for sharing
@@DavidGTravels actually there is more respected version where Lietuva comes from Leta/Leita as military unit in middle ages
@@vytautassulcas6494 Oh wow, so instead of place where it rains a lot, place with a military?
@@DavidGTravels yup, because Lithuania itself at its beginning was a like confederation of different Baltic tribes united by some millitary structure. Imagine if u visit Baltic lands thousand years ago, u should deal with some power called Leta. How u would describe those lands after that ? Even those days Im Lithuanian but in fact Im half Samogitian and half Suvalk. Lithuanian is still mostly politonym
❤Aciu.
Nėra už ką!
Ačiū i love IN lithuania
Well, that's a bit of shame that you didn't visit Kaunas. You were pretty close.
Hey thanks for the comment. I actually have visited Kaunas a few times, it’s nice and I even have some family roots in Kaunas! I mention it later on in the video along with Rumšiškės if you didn’t see that part.
@@DavidGTravels Oh well, my bad here. I was watching it fast.
Greetings from Canada thanks for sharing this video I'm interested in train travel throughout Europe according to Rick steves from the United States Europe through the backdoor, what's the currency the euro €
Hey there, thanks for commenting! Lithuania has some nice train routes, the Trakai and Klaipeda train routes I mentioned in the video are nice. There’s also the route that goes up to Visaginas that I haven’t had the chance to take yet. And then they just opened up a new route to Riga last month, so that could be useful.
A lot of towns only have bus service, so train travel is not quite as prominent as in some other European countries.
Is the surname Degutis common?
I know 0 people with that surname 🤷♂️
@@DavidGTravels thank you
No worries
talk about Birzai also
Next trip 👌
Not bad, I don't usually watch this sort of stuff but you kept me engrossed from start to finish stick at it!
BTW I'm only here cause I was watching vids on country with best woman to man percentage and they score high so you were lucky haha only joking... good skills.
Cool, thanks!
* Name of Lithuania is not derived from "a place where it rains a lot", but from a name of the river "Lietava". Most Lithuanians don't know this for some reason, so it's whatever. :D
Some people speculate that but neither has been proven. Both make sense so probably no one will ever really know the origin.
what about Gira drink? It is my favorite - better than Coke.
I like it alright
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Kaunas most know city in Lithuania because there is Kauno Zalgiris.
Love Kaunas!
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What’s this mean?
3:08 ''spirigucchi''? Sounds like Italiano 🤌
There are a few Lithuanian words that always remind of Italian, too, like pomodoras.
@@DavidGTravels Va bene, amico, ti prendevo solo in giro.🥸
It's actually 'spirguchiai'
“Spirgučiai” that’s not Gucci, but like gold on top of “Cepelinai”😌😛
lmao "spirigucchi" 🤌, even funnier when reading in Italian accent, I'm stealing that. The Lithuanian spelling is "spirgučiai" though and when pronounced correctly it doesn't sound too Italian.
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What do you mean?
It's not a hidden gem Ryanair and wizz air have flown there for years
Interesting point of view, thanks for commenting. Wizzair and Ryanair have two of the largest route networks in Europe, so it would be surprising if they didn't cover the capital city of any EU country really.
Of course the term hidden gem is pretty subjective. But I think based on most interpretations of it, it's a pretty accurate term to apply to Lithuania. And as shown in the video, Lithuania has got a lot of cool stuff to offer that's not well known.
Dont tell anybody, this is a secret :))
I think Lithuania can handle a few more visitors 😊
Iki "means "iki pasimatymo".English: see you later.Short "Iki".See you.
English synonym: "Bye"
I not need too go too Lithuania becouse im Lithuanian🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹
How do you like living in Lithuania?
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Lithuania makes you both happy and sad?
David has chosen the worst season of a year to make this "publicity" for the country. Looking at the puddles and an overcast and rainy sky, you don't want to go there at all. By the way, I am Lithuanian myself. But I do not thank him for showing the country this way.
This isn't an ad or publicity. I just wanted to show people Lithuania during the winter, which I think can be good time to visit. I'll likely show more of Lithuania during summer in another video down the line.
wait, you guys pay for bread?
Not usually, that's just me being... me.
There are NO Baltic States, Only Baltic COUNTRIES. Lithuania was a kingdom once. They were all Ruzzia's Baltic states for a short time. That title is no longer appropriate, and really never was. There are many other countries bordering the Baltic sea which have never been called "states" They are: Denmark, Finland, Germany, , Poland, and Sweden. No need to call any of them "states".
Interesting opinion. In English state and country are pretty interchangeable terms and Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonian are commonly referred to as the Baltic states in academic settings.
Llituanians do not eat cepelinai and. Shakotis
Only saltibarsciai?
We do though? Sakotis for more special occasions and depending to your tastes, cepelinai is relatively common to cook at home
I am from lithuania ne means no😂
Welcome to my channel!
Very expensive country
Really?
@@DavidGTravels if you go on summer time to palanga, you will see, dinner over 100 e. It's crazy
@@robirobi7300 ah okay, Palanga during the summer is really representative of normal prices in Lithuania
Brudda that’s for you cheap not for us 😅😅😅 for us it’s pretty expensive hahah
As a frequent visitor to Lithuania, the increase in prices with inflation has really been noticeable. Just to take a tiny example, the surelis price I show in the video is almost one euro - three years ago it was about 40 cents. Thanks for checking out the video!
@@DavidGTravels It's why I think it doesn't make sense to advertise Lithuania as a low-cost destination anymore. Usually it's done exclusively by people who lived in Lithuania in the late 2000s, like the Wolters World guy (who still claims we earn an average of 300 euros a month in 2024 because he lived here 20 years ago). I'm told by acquaintances that food and things like clothes are cheaper in Germany. The world has moved on and most of these past experiences are long past relevant.
@@PijusONLINE Fair points for sure, but I'd still consder Lithuania to be a lower-cost destination as far as EU countries go. I find Germany to still be signficantly more expensive than Lithuania for nearly every kind of cost - you could roughly say that the difference in costs between the two countries didn't change that much in the past few years as inflation drove up prices in both countries.
I can't really comment about the guy you referred to, but all the prices I share in this video are based on my last trip there this winter. And for sure the minimum salary isn't currently 300 euros a month. Thanks for the comment!
Lithuanian language is the oldest in the😊 world not Europe!
It is one of the oldest languages currently spoken in Europe, but not in the world. Euskera (Basque) is likely the oldest currently spoken language in Europe.
all languages including Lithuanian are modern. Meanwhile Lithuanian is one of most archaic languages in the world
not judging but the pronunciations ARGH IT MAKES ME MAD
really?
american people dont know how to pronowce lithuanian words :)
(btw i am lithuanian :)💀💀💀💀💀
What’s up with the skulls?
@@DavidGTravels nothin
just idk