This was part of A weekend in the Baltics - Day 1 🇱🇹 🔗. I made it just in time to join the Old Town Free Tour by Vilnius Free Walking Tours at 10:30 AM. Our guide was Ugnė. She started by telling a little bit about the history of Vilnius and Lithuania. She also told us about how the Lithuanian language has a lot of common roots with other languages, including Sanskrit; her name was very similar to the Sanskrit word agni, and both meant fire. ...
Vilnius was the first stop in my weekend in the Baltic States. I had been to Tallinn, Estonia before and would pass through it on my way back to Helsinki the next day. I reached Helsinki airport early morning for my flight AY1101 to Vilnius. It was my first flight on Oneworld carrier Finnair. I only had my backpack with me and I had checked in online and had the mobile boarding pass, so I just went through security check and headed to the gate. The flight was booked as Finnair and operated by N°rra (Nordic Regional Airlines). ...