Well it USED to be. Sort of. Welcome to The Fascinating Town of Kėdainiai, Lithuania.
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2023
- I came to Lithuania in search of a wee piece of Scotland. But will I find it? I must admit, this was one of my favourite videos to film, it felt like a proper mission and it was you guys who came up with the idea - please tell me more of these! Anyway, welcome to Kėdainiai, I hope you enjoy it...
Filmed on 13th November 2023 in Lithuania (not 9th as I said in video)
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Your visit to Kedainiai was definitely NOT a fail, Steve. You searched and found some solid evidence of Scotland, very much like discovering pearls in oysters. You also enjoyed a delightful lunch, served by one of the most personable waitresses I've ever seen. 👍
Such a great little town. Loved the lady in the Joan Arnet house, and the polite robot with such lovely food. Absolutely wonderful. Thanks so much. So impressed with Lithuania. 😊
Thanks a lot :) really enjoyed making this one!
You missed the lovely lady at 2.20 who was so happy to be on the SteveMarsh channel. What a smile!@@steve-marsh
@@martincannon1078she was a great ambassador for the friendliness of Lithuania! Unlike the residents of a certain other town he recently visited...
Steve, you really ought to have said thank you on camera to the lovely lady in the Joan Arnet house. Her English was excellent. It was impressive how many signs around the town were in English too.
How on earth did you discover Kėdainiai? What a fascinating place. It's unfortunate we don't share the same amount of civic pride as other European towns and cities do. As you said, some of the public facilities wouldn't last five minutes back home.
It was actually a subscriber who told me about it, I had NO idea :D Haha yes, imagine it!
I mean, you SAY facilities wouldn't last in Scotland, and it's true there are plenty of wee wankers running about vandalising anything they find... but the usb chargers at the bus stops still work, 4 years after installation! And several parks have free gym equipment that is in practically pristine condition.
I'm not saying you are wrong! I'm just saying we don't do TOO badly. I've lived in places where they wouldn't even last long enough to get put in, as the installation crew would get mugged.
I'd give those stations at least a couple years in most of Scotland 😂
Steve I'm loving your music. It's so appropriate for each setting. Thanks
To be honest, it's also impressive how stuff lasted in Kėdainiai. If it were Kaunas, stuff would be either stolen, broken or with some trashy graffiti in no time.
You're a gas man Steve. One of your best videos so far. Very natural.
Lithuania looks so beautiful and unspoilt. I can't get over how few people were around and I loved that they could have that free wifi and charging station without it getting vandalised
there is no immigrants .... there is rules and respect. in uk you can steal in day time with no worries because no one caries ... in Lithuania is a big change if someone will see you valdalising or stealing you can be beaten
@@Kund1sHopefully Lithuania can hold on to that type of society.
@@buckodonnghaile4309 we are doing our best ;)
lol I was there during summer and it was similarly dead feeling. Like yeah there's some people here and there, but still almost no one. It's almost insane how unknown this place is. Forget foreigners, even Lithuanians don't know about Kėdainiai and why they should visit. I personally learned about Kėdainiai from some random travel website and was looking specifically for cool small towns. Most people here just know about Birštonas, Druskininkai, Palanga and the like. Those are nice places as well, but there are neat small towns like Kėdainiai or Molėtai that don't get much attention.
i remember when i was a wee lad around 20 years ago and public places like these were getting vandalised by local late teens, but now I guess children aren't being brought up in that post soviet gang war mindset, so we can actually show, that we are capable of having nice things, well your milage may wary on the extent of the things individual niceness, but its a lot better than it used to be.
What a quiet town, it’s virtually deserted. No wonder the only waiter was a robot. Oh and there was the one woman who wanted to be in the picture as you were walking through the supermarket, are you sure you don’t have a stalker Steve ! 😂
Haha I didn't even notice :D
She was spiking the camera hard. I loved it
Spiking? What?
Ian you are correct...
Isn't it called video bombing ?
She just wants to be star ✨ with ower wee Steeevie !
That museum was a hidden treasure of old world, working, craft and tradition!
Steve, you're too hard on yourself. You found plenty of Scottish connections there. And in a tiny relatively deserted town you treated us to a museum and a robot server! You never fail to entertain! Great video... keep on traveling. Scotland the Brave!
Another great video Steve. Lithuania looks so clean and welcoming, without a trace of litter. There didn't appear to be any shops that were boarded-up or every other shop a charity shop, so very different from most people's perception of a former Soviet-bloc country. Looking forward to your next video.
What a beautiful spot and I loved all the historical info. Lithuania looks awesome.
Cheers mate!
what a lovely looking well kept place, almost Japanese levels of litter (or lack of it). Clearly the locals are very proud of their town and respectful of their environment.
Japan is something else in that regard, isn’t it?
@@robertcottam8824 Maybe, but it's kinda normal in whole Lithuania.
i can atest to have seen bits and bobs of tires in ditches around rural roads, but it seems to have a less common occurance.
I know you seemed a little disappointed about the level of Scottish influence you located, but I was actually pretty surprised how much you did find! What an interesting town! Thanks for showing it to us, your videos have definitely given me a new view of Lithuania and sparked my curiosity about the country.
The woman walking the same pace if you spiking the camera in the shop was fantastic
Love the video, Love going to Kedainiai. Living in Lithuania is fantastic, its clean, friendly, cheap and we never have a dull boring day (my ps5 has been played 4 times since we moved over in March). Those that have the opportunity to come and visit for a long weekend, you really should... i highly recommend it.
I love Lithuania too been there about 6 times now to stay with partners family, wouldn't say it was cheap though? Salarys are low and food is very expensive, what makes you say it is cheap?
A tiny piece of Scotland in Lithuania. Even the new pedestrian bridge looked like the Forth Railway Bridge!
This was very interesting to me. My Mother side Scottish ancestry, my Father side Lithuania ancestry.
Its bloody freezing! You could say its a bit baltic 😉
I’ll see myself out 🚪
Haha beautiful! I can't believe I haven't used that yet :D
💛💚♥️ Большое спасибо, что посетили мой родной городок Kėdainiai (я прожил в нем все своё счастливое детство -16 лет) и сняли прекрасное видео. Я не был в Литве 🇱🇹 уже почти 30 лет, давно живу в суровой и авторитарной России, очень скучаю по свободной и демократической Литве. Эта страна манит меня обратно, надеюсь мне когда-то удастся вернуться на родину. И да, приятно читать комментарии людей, которые подмечают чистоту в Литве, литовцы, действительно, очень берегут природу и окружающую среду, они молодцы, в Литве очень чисто❗🇱🇹♥️🇺🇦
I mean, if you can prove you are Lithuanian, you can go to the Lithuanian embassy and ask for help...
@@realhawaii5o thanks, but i am, unfortunately, not Lithuanian 🇱🇹♥️🇺🇦
Jiesli ty radilsa v Litvie i jiest kakoj nibut dokumient kotory govoryt o tom, možno poluchyt graždanstvo. U nas kak v Amierikie, ty mozhiesh byt po nacionalnosti kiem ugodna, no ty budiš svoij.
@@ernisj.8087🇱🇹 К сожалению, насколько я знаю, это не так. Раньше действительно я мог легко получить гражданство, если бы не уехал, но затем закон о гражданстве несколько раз меняли в сторону ужесточения и теперь стать гражданином Литвы очень сложно, нужны литовские корни, а сам по себе факт рождения в Литве в советский период времени не является основанием для получения гражданства... Я могу ошибаться, но вроде всё именно так...🇱🇹♥️🇺🇦
@@user-zg2bs3us5r Если есть литовское свидетельство рождении... а если потерялось, можно заказать копию
We absolutely loved your trip to Lithuania and we want to visit, we actually want to live in one of these quiet, clean towns
you are welcome, know some brits already moved here
Photo-bombed at 2:20!
What a fascinating wee place, and so immaculately kept too! Seemingly not a trace of litter or graffiti anywhere to be seen either; Lithuania can really teach us a lot in that respect. Thanks for this little eye-opener, Steve.
That's a lovely video Steve, Lithuania looks a fascinating place to visit. Love the way you always speak to any animals you see as well.
Steve, you had a beautiful trip around Lithuania. A Pole from the south of England greets you.
Wow! What a brilliant video, about a brilliant little town in Lithuania. Steve, how many other brilliant little towns are tucked away in
quiet corners of countries around this magnificent little planet called Earth. Fascinating to learn of the Scottish connection too. The
Scots have made an impact and left their mark worldwide, and that's for the betterment of humankind to be sure. A world without
golf, bagpipes and Steve Marsh would be a much lesser place.
I’m so with you on that, seeking out these little gems that few people have even heard of keeps me motivated!
Another fascinating video about a country I have virtually no knowledge of, again can’t help but notice just how well everything is kept and maintained, and so clean and tidy. Scotland could learn so, so much
There was Kėdainiai history museum right in front of your hotel! Wouldve found Scottish history there for sure.
Scottish Protestants arrived in Kėdainiai in the late 16th and 17th centuries, encouraged by the conversion of Anna Radziwill; the community exerted considerable influence in the city and persisted until the mid-19th century. The grouping of the buildings around the town square still include the imposing homes of merchants known as the "Scottish Houses". These include; the George Anderson House, the John Arnot House, the George Bennet House, the James Gray House, the Steel Property, and the surviving basement of the Alexander Gordon house.
Cheers for this!
State the source: Wikipedia
@@martin3203 Nope, it's from "Network North: Scottish kin, commercial and covert association in Northern Europe, 1603-1746" - 2006 by Steve Murdoch, it is published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden - The Netherlands ...
One more interesting tidbit. British rock band Bastille famously shot a music video in Kėdainiai for their song Things We Lost In The Fire some 10 odds years ago. You see this region (Kėdainiai and neighboring Jonava) is home to two large fertilizer plants. Over the years they dumped these enormous mountains of snow-white photogypsum on the edge of town - a byproduct of fertilizer production. They call them locally as Kėdainiai Alps :D They used it as a backdrop for the clip.
Fantastic! Thanks so much for this!
The best part of this video is when the lady is showing you round Arnott's hoose. She is so enthusiastic, and the town is very pretty. Cheers for another interesting one ✌🏻
as Lithuanian I remember hearing that Kėdainiai have some connections to Scottish people, but wasn't entirely familiar with it myself. I'm glad you visited it!
I never fast forward your videos. Even with just a small view, I'm able to see a country I will never see in person...so thank you.
Thank you so much! :)
Same here, it's always good to see and learn of places such as this one.
That robot waitress was hilarious!
Steve, you really have a knack for telling interesting stories in interesting places and you have such a good eye for filming. Keep up the great work! (Over 100k subscribers. Wow!)
Happy Christmas to you and Alicja!
The soulless "waitress" replaces employment, especially for young people (students) for whom full-time employment is not suitable. (Mind you, given how few customers there were, it might be the only viable option for the owners.)
I , amd many others, avoid self checkouts in supermarkets, for the same reason. For many, it is often the only employment available without excessive travel.
@@andrewrooney653 that's assuming there are students looking for a part-time job... Lithuania is one of those areas that is depopulating. That's the main reason for Japanese robotisation, too, there just aren't enough people left to work certain jobs.
What a wonderful trip around a place I’ve never heard of - the video has made me want to go - wonderfully filmed as ever, Steve!
KĖDAINIAI looks a wee bit like Coatbridge on a dull day, nice hotel and room, and as busy as Coatbridge town centre on a Saturday.
Lovely town square and nice buildings, and a good riverside walk< John Arnot's house is very interesting and good how they are using it for craft work.
Love the cobbled streets, like the robotic waiter, and the burger.
A great wee video, All the Best Steve.
What a nice surprise! Loved how you were encouraging to the doggo, the basement workshop at the Arnet house, and your reaction to the gira. And yes, that burger looked fantastic. Robot servers take a bit of getting used to. You'll see what I mean when you visit Japan.
Hi Steve, you mentioned the word 'fail' !! Your trip was not a fail. You discovered another part of the world with a Scottish connection, and after the years that had passed since 60% of the businesses were run by Scots, given more time I am sure you would have found more. We get the Scots Magazine every month, and the MP Kenny McAskill always has an article in it about Scots who have been prominent or created history, all over the world. He hasn't moved from his computer I reckon, you are doing it the hard way !!!! Keep up the good, and very interesting work.
Gordon
Interesting video Steve, in a place I'd never have on my itinerary. We had a lot of Lithuanians come to Newtongrange in the late 19th, early 20th century to work in the pits. There are 4 Lithuanians and 1 Ukrainian on our WW1 memorial.
Oh cheers for this!
Same on the west coast around Bellshill
This is a fascinating video. As a Scot I wasn't aware of this at all. Just shows you how far we traveled haha
We’re everywhere ;)
The great thing about your vlogs Steve is that you go to places most people wouldn't normally visit. Really enjoyable, many thanks.
As some have asked, yes there still are Lithuanised Scottish family names in Lithuania such as Razma (Ramsey), Dromantas (Drummond), Rusilas (Russell), etc.
Thanks for this! I genuinely had no idea!
I would add Butleris (Butler). I had a coleague with the surname Butlerytė, she is from north western part of Lithuania (Samogitia) and she knew about her Scottish heritage. She later even found in archives the documents of her noble heritage with the coat of arms of her family.
Kazys Maksvytis, the basketball coach of team Lithuania definitely has to be of Scottish origin, probably Macsweetey, or Macsweeney 😂
Greetings from London, thank you for visiting my country!!! You are legend!
Hey an absolute pleasure, such a cool place and everyone is so respectful! (even the robots) :)
@steve-marsh I have been visiting Scotland also, and I can say exactly same words! Love Scotland and Scottish people!!!
Have had Lithuanian colleagues in St George's University of London in Tooting. They were always so polite and hard working. There were a few students from Lithuania too and the same thing, polite and hard working. What a pleasure and such good examples of their country. No wonder everything in Steve's video was so clean and well kept.
@jerrylancs8690 thank you for such nice words!!!
You have done it again Steve, an amazing video from a lovely place in a beautiful country ....and what a waitress !
Great video Steve, there are so many Scottish connections with places in Poland, the Baltics and the Netherlands thanks to the thriving seaborne trade from the late Middle Ages onwards. Plenty of examples of Scottish influence in those places but also plenty of examples of Flemish/Dutch/Baltic influence in Scotland too (such as architecture). Definitely fascinating!
So many more places to research eh! Cheers :)
Wonder how many of those Scottishlinked places in Poland were once in Germany.
@@josephyearwood1179 Easy to figure out, just compare an old map with a modern one.
@@inthepub One can’t find old maps of France before it annexed Savoy and Nizza in 1860. Likewise, Monaco was about tenfold the size bigger before being gobbled up by France. Again, almost impossible to find old maps showing aforesaid places before being gobbled up. The psychopaths running the Anglospher are ultra Francophone.
That footbridge over the river was, to me, the Forth Bridge in miniature. Im surprised you didn’t clock the passing resemblance!
Doesn't it give you a warm feeling of kinship with a place when you find the Scottish connection? I wonder how many citizens have Scottish forebears? That wee cafe was magic - the food looked very tasty and the little robot waitress was just so funny. Loved it. Some of the frontage on the older buildings had a kind of Dutch look about them.
Yes, I thought they had a Dutch style to them. They reminded me of some of the building facades in South Africa and Zimbabwe called Cape Dutch style architecture.
As an expat living in Lithuania I found your videos most interesting, seems you are coming to Klaipeda next as you said you are getting a long ferry must be to Germany or Sweden, looking forward to that.
Cheers Trevor! Aye, look out for the Tuesday vlog, then onto the high seas next Saturday :)
the last sylable in Kėdainiai (-iai) is pronounced like "nay". You are spot on pronouncing Kėdain-. Grėjaus namas (the hotel) is literal translation of Gray's house
How cool is this! Loved the 17th century house with the museum. How did you even find out about the Scots connection to a seemingly random town in Lithuania?
Oh, and today is the day that I learned that what I know as the St. Andrew's Cross is also called a Saltire.
A whole house museum about a Scottish connection in that tiny town -- I'd call that a win! Thanks for taking us on another great journey; can't wait to see your train to the coast next time.
Saw a few comments mentioning it looks like a ghost town, so thought I'll mention that Lithuania has a much lower population density than the UK, therefore we LOVE our space. Lithuanians can have detached houses with large wrap around gardens. We also like to stay indoors and cosy when it's cold, so town centres can appear empty in wintertime, but that's just because culturally we go out much more in the summer, because the seasons are much more pronounced than in the UK.
Also, calling places in the Baltics ghost towns is a bit insensitive because Nazis and Soviets literally killed off entire towns here, hundreds of thousands of people. Lithuania is still battling the remnants of the past and Lithuanians are trying to rebuild and attract people to the country, so please come visit and ENJOY the space while it lasts 😊💛💚❤
I too love my space and find Lithuania a very beautiful, respectful place. We do tend to use the phrase 'ghost town' over here as a general descriptor with no malice intended, sorry :)
Oh I know no malice was intended at all, and thank you for your lovely video Steve! ❤❤❤ I'm aware Brits sometimes affectionally call their towns even shiteholes too, but just wanted to mention that foreigners like Lits might take sayings like that too literally sometimes so need to be careful 😅😂😅😂😅
@@steve-marsh during summer, everything takes place outside and the windows are open wide
You don't have to be so sensitive. The biggest reason for "ghost towns" is emigration, both to Vilnius and abroad.
aint that the truth June-September whenever I have visited Vilnius 30c heat waves ;)
Fantastic video thanks Steve. What an interesting place to visit and with a Scottish connection. I couldn't believe the lack of people. Your videos certainly open ones eyes.
Another fantastic look at a place I've never heard of. Cheers!
Another great place to see thanks again Steve.
Another fantastic introduction to a place I barely knew existed. I’ll Google it now to get more information. You’ve inspired me. Thanks Steve!
A pleasure mate!
Hi Steve. Outstanding find. So interesting to watch. The town once again looked so clean and tidy. And yes you amply proved the Scottish connections not least in the former Scottish pharmacy and tobacco shop. As for the robotic waitress, how cool was that. But also sad to think that a human lost a job.
Safe travels. 👏👏👍😀
5:32 i love how the bus driver waves to the other bus
What an interesting small town. Sometimes curiosity will take you to interesting places. The robot waitress was adorable. I wonder how many languages it speaks?
And I didn’t even give it a tip eh!?
This may be your best vlog so far, Steve. Really intriguing. I like that venturing off the beaten-track routine.
Sometimes, it ends in disappointment; more often it gives the best travel experiences.
I’m a massive fan of Česká Republica - all because, twenty years ago, a chum and I ventured beyond Praha, Česky Krumlov, Telč and Kutna Hora…
Hope you find your way to the hidden gems of Bohemia and Moravia one day.
Hey thanks Robert! And screen shot taken of this comment to remember the travel inspiration!
@@steve-marsh
Go! 😎
I don’t want to presume but if you do go, please feel free to contact me for some ‘pointers’, regarding where you can stay on a budget.
The touristy places are expensive but out in the sticks is cheap - and more ‘authentic’.
For instance, check out Pelhrimov - an architectural gem, home to the strangest museum I’ve ever visited and the world’s largest chair. Only the Czechs do this…
Merry Christmas
That dartboard would have made me feel at home…😂
Steve, you can really visit a wet rock on a field and still make an interesting video out of it. I'm such a fan of your channel! Wish you all the best from Romania!
Thanks so much for this mate! :)
Just love the robot cafe,wish we had that in Scotland, the guide was so pleased to see you, great cheap prices and value for you, nice peaceful weekend visit to be enjoyed. Thanks Steve
Cheers John! Everyone I met (not many, but still) was very friendly!
Close to my house in NE North Carolina, a Mexican restaurant has a robot server. It's fun to watch it.
These robots are becoming quite popular here in Poland. I have been served by them in 3 different restaurants in my home city of Łódź.
Yet again Steve - another "tour de force"! Really fascinating video which has further whetted my appetite to visit Lithuania iin the future! Again, many thanks indeed 🙏👏
Looks like a wonderful place for a little day trip
That waitress was right up on her technology 😄😄👍 Good video Stevie 👍👍👍
Wow! This was absolute gold! Keep up the great work. Greetings from Poznań ;)
HimSteve, from upstate NY. Enjoying several of your visits. This is a quaint little town, so quiet, where is everyone….😊
Thanks so much for joining me Louise! Merry Christmas to you and your family :)
Merry Christmas to you Steve 🌲
What a wonderful town. Liked the house with the crafted items and the restaurant with the robot. Very enjoyable video Steve.
Another great video Steve, your destinations are always interesting and different. You do have a knack of finding clean, beautiful places and this one is no different. Have you considered doing a tour of eastern European countries in your van?
Cheers mate! I'm afraid the van had to go :( It was a sad day for me, but that would have been a lovely idea. So much space over there, would have no problem parking up with a beautiful view!
I have been watching your videos for about three months now and thoroughly enjoying. I love travel and you are taking me to some very interesting places. Kedainiai was no exception but where was everybody?? And then to be served by a robot in an empty-looking restaurant was so strange. Wonderful. Linda from Australia.
The town has like 20k people living there. And the weather was dreary and cold. My guess? Inside.
Haha yes it had that kind of spooky feel about it! The same in the next video, I certainly find the quiet places eh? :D
Another brilliant film, Steve 👍 Look forward to the next installment.
Absolutely brilliant vlog, Steve!
Thanks so much for sharing ❤️
Another great video Steve. What a cute little town, so clean and very quiet. I love how you drop in a bit of history as well. Excellent work.
Thanks Wanda! I'm never quite sure if what I'm saying is true though :D
@@steve-marsh hey capt.
Not knowing if what you are saying is true ..shock..
Are you becoming...a politician ?
Oh no ... I'm sure everything politicians say is true.
They just don't make such good you tube postings. 😁
Nova Scotia(literally in their name!), multiple port cities across the Black Sea, France, and Italy, and New Jersey(northeastern part) join that town with a deep Scottish connection…glad you both found great gifts and the strongest remaining connection to Scotland there!
and re: the name of Mrs. Arnes…it’s a feminine and masculine language thing, in many languages females and males have different surnames despite the same parents. i think Alicja would understand it if you asked, the Polish language might have the same
Great video Steve and what a lovely town Kedainiai is . Keep up the excellent work 🙂🙂
Lovely place, looking forward to the next journey 😊
I had COVID this week and found your Channel along the way. All your journeys really helped me pull through it.
Steve's channel was one of the first I found just before /after lockdown. Helped me massively.
Steve, did you do the Edinburgh to Glasgow flight with loganair? Maybe someone else around the same time.
His videos have helped me tremendously. Love sitting on a Sunday scrolling through them (usually with a hangover, but they do help 😂) 😊
Messages like these keep me motivated, thank You! And wishing you all the strength!
Haha the Edinburgh to Glasgow was indeed me :D
@@steve-marsh how did you manage to book onto that flight Steve? I'd love to have been able to do that.
You said as we not part of Europe anymore??? The UK has not moved and very much part of Europe.
I woke up early after a day of traveling to be rewarded with a video from Steve! What could be better! I love how that lady in the bus station grocery store was clocking you…it almost looked like she was “hoping to be discovered and become a movie star”!😆
That house you got to tour was fascinating. You didn’t mention if there was a fee for the tour. If not, that was quite an amazing value. And what a lunchtime experience… that’s one for the books, to be waited on by a kitty cat robot! 🤣
I can’t wait for the next episode of this adventure! Cheers and ATB
Haha the funny thing is I didn't notice the lady at the time OR during the edit :D Hey hope you had a good day of travel, enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Amazing video you seem like the kind of guy that gives amazing hugs
What an awesome trip to a cute, yet quiet little town. Thanks once again for taking us along on your adventures. ❤
That is a town I’d love to visit.
Jeezo Lithuania looks as dreich as Scotland 😊
Looks a very nice area to visit Steve. The hotel looks good place to stay, you always get a nice room!!! A lot of walking but as you said very cold. Love the robot delivering your drinks and meal, how things have changed !!!!
Very interesting, enjoyed this very much, Happy Christmas to you both ,😊
Are you also planning on going to Klaipeda? It used to be Germany’s most northeastern city and was close to the border with Russia at the time. You can still recognize the architecture of Germany in Klaipeda. Germany lost that city after the whole region was given to Lithuania after WW1. Germany recaptured that region during the 2nd world war but of course had to give it up again after the end of the war.
Oh nice! I'll be there in the next vid :)
What a cute peaceful place! Thank you for showing us some parts of the world that a not so well-known. I am constantly learning from your endeavours, for example because of your remarks concerning the Norröna on Iceland, I booked myself on a trip to the Faroes and Iceland next year. So please, keep the good things coming ;)
Well, what a great video again. I look forward to the next one and your ferry journey to Kiel (?). Or maybe to my country, Sweden?
Fantastic video Steve!! My great grandparents came to Scotland from Lithuania as you say in the 19th century, settled in Lanarkshire mostly Bellshill, Mossend and Coatbridge. The town should be pronounced as "Keidynyny" if you were to say it in English. Great to see the Scottish connections. I never knew about this. Thanks Steve.
Cheers Chris! Cool connection :)
This is most definitely not pronounced like that, not even close. It is pronounced the way it's written, everything in Lithuanian is, but the ending here sounds more like "ei" (like letter "a" in English). But interesting to hear about your Lithuanian connection!
@k.squared Thank you for the correction, I had a feeling what I wrote may still not be 100% correct. My Great grandparents came from Šiauliai in North of Lithuania. My grandparents and all Lithuanian side of my family erected the Škotija Lietuvos Kultūra Klubas in Bellshill in Scotland. I believe my great grandfather had to leave Lithuania because of being a ' Book Smuggler' 'Knygnešys'
@@ChrisPipinghot Wow! This is even more fascinating.
@@fidenemini111 Ačiū/ Thanks
haha! "The staff was a bit robotic"... Lovely, quiet place. Thanks to you I think I'm adding Lithuania to my bucket list. Travel on!
A well deserved place on the list :)
What a beautiful looking town, I like quiet places so it'd be ideal to visit someday. I also enjoyed seeing snippets of the language as from my limited knowledge of Norwegian and German, I could see connections in the words they use. If you're on a ferry next week, my guess would be a trip to Sverige. Looking forward to it.
Cheers! Oh maybe a ferry, but not to Sverige I'm afraid :(
Yes, the words may look a bit alike, because they were imported into Lithuanian in their time. Otherwise Lithuanian is actually avery conserved language. As you might know, the presnt language of Greece is the Koine varianat of Greek, and that language looks very much alike the old language spoken on the Lithuanian countryside, at least in the way that was spoken before the latest war. Actually the university of Berlin let language students choose between Greek and Lithuanian whwn it came to. I am not sure if they were mutuallly intelligible , but they sure were much alike.
I got the impressison that the prices are higher in Lithuania than in Poland, whwn I was there, averything cost almost nothing, a 50 km bus ride cost something around 30 cents(Eurocents), but that was rigfht aftewr their independence
Lithuania to finland or germany? Loving lithuania, love the old soviet states
No the ferry to Germany
@@ametrinemoon You meant the old Grand Duchies, surely.
Thanks for courage and introducing us to Gira!
Uršule , you robot. 😊 welcome to Lituania
Hello Steve, what an interesting town of Kedainiai. Thank you for the great tour. I guess the cold weather was keeping people off the streets the day you were there. Thanks again!
Another enjoyable & interesting video now there well done Steve 🎥👌👌👌
Cheers Michael!
That was a fun watch! And based on Google Maps, it seems like Sweden is up next. And as always, the notes are very useful, because it allows people to visit those same places if they want to.
The hotel that you stayed in belonged to a Scotish lawyer Jacob Gray. 'Grėjaus namas' means 'Gray's house' in Lithuanian. Another Scotish connection
That's a very cool little town. I like that a lot.
What a pretty little town. And spotlessly clean! And a burger served by a cat shaped Dalek! 😂😂
Oh mate that burger was something else!!!
Guaranteed that Steve travels takes you somewhere you would never go otherwise. Superb stuff and once again you walk past the electric scooters one day you could try one
A very quiet place, I’m sure much better in warmer weather.
Cool video, great story. How random, a robot in a cafe in the middle of Lithuania.
They knew you were coming. Must've been lots of bargains. Enjoyed the pipes.