I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 734. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about castles and

Zeppelin's freedom and occupation, the Hanseatic League and a hill of crosses as we go to Lithuania.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Lithuania. I'd like to welcome back to the show Jay from Jway Travel.com who's come to talk to us about

Lithuania. Jay welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me. And I say

welcome back to the show Jay has been on once before talking about Croatia, which is where

J-Way travel, which focuses on travel in Central and Eastern Europe, got started.

And then we've also had a couple experiences just for a

full disclosure here I've used J Wei for a couple different trips and we'll talk

about that later on in the show including one of the amateur traveler trips.

So Jay why should someone go including one of the amateur traveler trips.

So Jay, why should someone go to Lithuania?

Well, Lithuania, I must say, is one of my personal favorite countries.

I actually spent a month there this past summer and for being

such a small country there's really a lot to see there and really sort of a lot of

different experiences you can enjoy and I think it gives people an opportunity to go somewhere a little bit unusual.

That's not so often visited especially by Americans, but a place that really has a solid tourist infrastructure so you can certainly get around well.

It's sight-wise there's plenty to see and I think the tourist board does a really good job there.

So they're very welcoming to tourists as well.

Of course, it was a former USSR republic,

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