This is Lithuania, a small country in Europe’s Baltic region that recently placed second in Lonely Planet’s esteemed list of the best countries to visit in 2025, hot on the heels of topping last ...

This pagan festival celebrates the summer solstice ... With a relatively warm Baltic Sea and long bright days where temperatures range between 17°C and 23°C, June, July and August are also ...

From each of the hornbeams as many as half a dozen thin trunks rise from a thick stump, resembling the crown of some pagan god ... firewood from Norway and the Baltic, which combined lower ...

A couple of these feature goddesses of a Baltic, pagan, female-centred religion called Romuva. “What a great religion!” Birnbaum exclaimed. However, Christian monks extinguished it in the 14th century ...

They were commanded by a Hochmeister or Grand Master and saw action in Palestine, Armenia plus fighting the pagan tribes of Eastern Europe near the Baltic coast. You can give them their full mail, ...

As Russia and the US debate Ukraine’s future, countries on the Baltic Sea are ramping up preparations for a military conflict amid fears that Russia is preparing for a future war with NATO.

But there’s already a place where European countries successfully look after themselves: the Baltic Sea. The mini ocean has plenty of threats (think ghost ships and cut cables). Yet so self ...

Feb. 21, 2025 The European Union vowed on Friday to increase security in the Baltic Sea as the Swedish authorities said they were investigating a new cable break, the latest example of damage to ...

The Baltic Express bursts out of the Czech capital on a crisp winter morning. As the sky lightens, medieval Prague is streamed through the train's windows like a Netflix trailer. From armchair ...