Apr 21, 2011 posted by Emile
On the edge of Europe (but still in Europe’s heartland somehow), lies the country we all know as Belarus. Widely regarded as Europe’s last dictatorship, it is ruled by president Lukashenko, who has been in office since 1994. Unlike its neighbouring countries Lithuania and Ukraine, Belarus has been looking east rather than west after the Berlin Wall fell. It still holds good relations with Russia and even has a border treaty with them (meaning that there are no customs controls on the Belarus/Russia border).
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Sep 18, 2010 posted by Emile
Cramped in between Latvia, Belarus, Poland and the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, lies the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika). Once part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, it is now reduced to a country of about the size of the Czech Republic.
It is in this country, that the most recent of my travels started. A plane from Estonian Airlines flew me from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Vilnius Airport. Vilnius is the capital of this interesting country and I’ll now tell you more about it. Read the rest of this entry »
