Even number of flowers is not so much bad luck, just that the tradition is to place even number of flowers on graves. So you can imagine the connotation gifting 2 flowers to someone... you know... alive :D

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

I may or may not have almost done this once 🙊

Ačiū!!❤️ Great video, thank you!! Greetings from 🇱🇹

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Visiting the Hill of Witches is a must. Mystical place, nothing like that exists elsewhere in the world.

@DavidGTravels

16 күн бұрын

Are you talking about the one in Juodkrante? That’s a cool stop on the way to Nida.

We are planning on visiting all three of the Baltic countries in summer 2024. No flight needed, we'll drive with our car and caravan from the very West of Germany. In two weeks, new travel guide books are going to be publishes, so we haven't bought any yet. Iki means good bye - funny, it means the number 2 in Turkish.

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Funny coincidence about “iki,” thanks for sharing. That sounds like a great trip for summer 2024, and a good chance to see some of Poland on the way too!

@aurered6387

4 ай бұрын

nope iki means see you soon or be right back

@aurered6387

4 ай бұрын

Goodbye in Lithuania is Viso gero 😄

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

@@aurered6387 My Lithuanian is only at a moderate level, but I can say for sure that iki, ate, and viso gero can all be translated to the English word "bye." In this video I chose to keep it simple and just give a handful of Lithuanian words to get everyone started.

@ananasaz2696

3 ай бұрын

It does mean bye u can use it differently iki greito see you soon means. be right back means in Lithuanian - Tuoj sugrįšiu@@aurered6387

Keep making more videos about lithuania and lithuania will be proud

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

I’ll keep that in mind, it could be nice to show some more of Lithuania during the summer.

@dolorian_dollar

3 ай бұрын

​@@DavidGTravelsSummer is the best time to showcase Lithuania. Winter slop and gloomy skies can really paint a pretty depressing picture of the country. But if everything is covered in bright, white, fluffy snow, then life is good again.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

@@dolorian_dollar Snow really makes winter nicer, right?!

👋Aciu for watching everybody! Out of interest, what would you like to see featured from Lithuania (or other places) in future videos?

Thank you about talking Lithuanian history, that means a lot, cuz a lot people thinks that we are part of russia, but we hate russia and never wanted to be part of them for the stuff they did to our grandpas/grandmas sending them to Siberia to die and a lot of other bad stuff they did to our country. Latvians, Estonians hate them too almost for the same reason. Good video

@DavidGTravels

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment :). I'm a strong believer you can find good people anywhere. But, I'm very glad to be able to visit Lithuania frequently, and I hope to a bit more a talking about it in future videos soon. 🇱🇹

I've been to Vilnius on a business trip 3 weeks ago, and liked very much. The airline I'm working for now is from Lithuania, therefore, I will probably have more opportunities to return, hopefully.

@DavidGTravels

17 күн бұрын

Cool to hear! Which airline are you with?

@danieldmg

16 күн бұрын

@@DavidGTravels Avion Express, which is opening a branch here in Brazil. By the way, you mentioned the surname Litvac on your video...is this your surname?

@DavidGTravels

16 күн бұрын

Cool, no with Litvak I was just referring the group of Lithuanian Jewish people that brought a lot of their traditions over to the Americas.

A little remark... In lithuanian "iki" means "see ya". It is used often in friendly manner, because, if we, lithuanians, like the person, we'd like to meet him/her again later. "Viso gero" is more official way to say goodby.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Aciu!

Really nice video, David! Thoroughly enjoyed watching it❤

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

Good job!Thanks

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

thank you for this video. will visit lithuania next summer (hopefully) and this video was insightful!

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful, enjoy your trip!

Greetings ✌🏻 Your channel popped up while I was researching my trip to the Baltics this May. You’ve got some great advice. Thank you!

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

So glad to hear you found it useful, happy travels!

Very good video. Thank you 😊 Greetings from Lithuania

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks mate❤

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Na tai gražūs žodžiai 😊😊😊 Those words are beautiful ❤❤❤

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Ačiū labai!

Great and throughout video. As a lithuanian I can confirm no lies were told in this video. Although I would really reccomend coming here only during may-semptember as other months as clearly in his video are quite depressing, rainy, wet and muddy. Decemeber and around christmas it can be also nice if it happens to snow a lot and you're up for winter snowy christmas vibe, but be prepared with proper winter clothes, scarf, hat, gloves etc. as it can get to -15c-20c sometimes

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Agree that summer is a nice time to visit, and stay tuned for more Lithuania and other travel videos.

@xEroxSennin

3 ай бұрын

I lived in uk for 6 years and as a lithuanian I didnt get the joke about english weather at all. Compared to Lt, Uk is all clear and sunshine. At least east coast imo. But yeah summers are nice and winters used to be nice. Now we get a snowy weak or two then back to mud and broken bones.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

@@xEroxSennin I guess you could basically categorize all of Northern Europe as relatively cloudy 🤷‍♂

Superb approach to make videos

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

So nice of you, glad you enjoyed it!

You won a bed under my roof if in need cause of sūreliai :) nice video mr. David, appreciate it. Love from Lithuania

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Ha! "Place where it rains a lot". I was drenched in horizontal rain in Vilnius last summer but loved the place.

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

It's just got a certain charm!

@PauliusMG

4 ай бұрын

Weather in Lithuania is very unstable, so you need to prepare for changeable weather. I'm from Lithuania, so I know what I'm talking about

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

@@PauliusMGthanks for sharing!

@romadobson2224

3 ай бұрын

Yes, changing quickly.But still very seasonable.Winter,Spring,Summer, Fall have their features represented in the full spectrum.

Lietuva meaning "the place where it rains" is a colloqual etymology. It's more likely to mean "floodlands".

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing

Nice!🎉🙈🇱🇹

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

RESPECT ❤ U SIR, GREAT 👍 JOB KEEP IT UP GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL OF 🙏 U'R FAMILY SIR, FROM ( SURANGA ) , SRILANKA

@DavidGTravels

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

❤ HELLO SIR, U DID GREAT VEDIOE'S , RESPECT 🙏 U AND GOD BLESS ALL OF U'R FAMILY, FROM SURANGA ( SRILANKA )

@DavidGTravels

Ай бұрын

So nice of you

Hi from Lithuanian 😁 nice video and for Bye or goodbye say better 'Viso gero or Ate" xD because 'iki" means see you soon or be right back

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! 😃

@romadobson2224

3 ай бұрын

Not Ate,but atia. @@DavidGTravels

You can enter Lithuania from Denmark by plane or any other European country to Palanga airport.Then either to rent the car after you come or there are taxis (50 eu from Palanga to Klaipeda)or busses to Klaipeda( they are cheaper).There are also the flights from Europe to Kaunas airport.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Kaunas and Palanga are very underserved airports with few flights and mostly high fares. Most arrivals are to VNO. And by the way, there is decent public transport between Palanga, Palanga Airport, and Klaipeda for around 5 euros.

Ačiū im a lithuanian and ur making my country more popular

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

I hope so!

@dancius136

2 ай бұрын

@@DavidGTravels same

❤Aciu.

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Nėra už ką!

Greetings from Canada thanks for sharing this video I'm interested in train travel throughout Europe according to Rick steves from the United States Europe through the backdoor, what's the currency the euro €

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Hey there, thanks for commenting! Lithuania has some nice train routes, the Trakai and Klaipeda train routes I mentioned in the video are nice. There’s also the route that goes up to Visaginas that I haven’t had the chance to take yet. And then they just opened up a new route to Riga last month, so that could be useful. A lot of towns only have bus service, so train travel is not quite as prominent as in some other European countries.

it does NOT mean place were rains a lot it means place were there is a lot of little rivers all over Lithuania

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

Interesting interpretation, thanks for sharing!

Ačiū i love IN lithuania

Dont go to Klaipeda [if you have limited time], go to Palanga instead. Klaipeda is just regular city, while Palanga is for tourists/attractions based city. Also very unique is Juodkrante, Nida. To get there you will need to take ferry

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

I find Klaipeda and Nida a lot more interesting than Palanga, but I think this can be good advice depending on what someone is interested in.

You can find Saltibarsciai all year round, no wrong time for saltibarsciai 😂

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

I like that attitude, but my experience trying to find saltibarsciai in the winter tells me different 😂

I’m only interested in a Lithuanian woman. I had one and she was the sweetest girl I have ever encountered. Love from London

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

Really?

He even said Hi in Lithuania which shows how good this country is

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Does it?

I live in užupis, the “indipendence” thing is more of a symbolic gag rather than how the government and local authorities actually interact 😁 the idea was modelled after christiania in denmark, but christiania has a lot more legitimate indipendence from the city of copenhagen as they can sell grass there without police interferring. uzupis never reached that level of self-organisation as christiania. sadly. the artist population in uzupis and nida are large because the art academy is right next to uzupis, a lot of art galleries there, whereas nida is where the all the artists from the academy do their practice there officially. ive studied there so im giving you inside info😁

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, super cool to read and I’m sure other folks reading through comments will find this helpful! Užupis and Nida are two my absolute favorite places in Lithuania.

@templecreations2351

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidGTravels if you go to nida during the period when the academy is doing the practises for their students (especially the students of the new multimedia cathedral aka the “titanic”: the photographers, animators, etc.) you can go to the academy’s buildings where the artists live during the day and im 100% sure you’d be able to interact with the practising artists there, get to hang around, get content and perhaps even party. heck, i remember when i was there, there were always other people who were hanging about and making friends with us who weren’t from the academy, especially interesting foreigners. it was pretty wild. the academy had a lot of crazed artist party-heads when i was there, and i don’t think it has changed. if you get in on the lecturers and profs. good graces by for example making content about the academy while there, or generally with some kind of artistic endavour and good vibes, they are likely to welcome you. here’s to hoping thing haven’t gotten stricter since i left, but i seriously doubt it.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Sartai looks nice, I've driven near it but haven't had the chance to visit yet. Thanks for the tip!

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Even nunber flowers are more for funerals and graves rather than bad luck.

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

Interesting tradition!

When I was in Estonia, I was told that whistling inside is considered rude. Is that true for other baltic countries?

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

I didn’t know that, would love to hear if that’s a thing in Lithuania too.

@dd-oe8zv

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidGTravels Yea it applies to lithuania too. Whistling inside the house means you're inviting devil to your house or your house will be emptied. Although those superstitions exists in modern times it's nothing more than something people just know. It's just sort of funny thing to mention, but not to be worried about. Probably grandmas in their 70s or something only care about such things

@gustasraupys6331

3 ай бұрын

​@@DavidGTravelsYes thats a thing 😃 My parents and almost every other person will tell you "Its not the forest" or "Go to the forest if you want to whistle" 😁 Im not entirely sure but its probably because hunters in the forest would scream and whistle 😁

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

@@gustasraupys6331wow, that’s interesting to know! I’m lucky then because I can’t whistle 😂

@maksimsk.2700

2 ай бұрын

There is a superstition in Russian and Latvian culture "if you whistle inside a house you are going to loose money" (don't know who picked it from who). I have heard Lithuanian brothers have something similar but it was not related to money but some other thing. Don't know if it's true though

Well, that's a bit of shame that you didn't visit Kaunas. You were pretty close.

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for the comment. I actually have visited Kaunas a few times, it’s nice and I even have some family roots in Kaunas! I mention it later on in the video along with Rumšiškės if you didn’t see that part.

@MJ-uk6lu

4 ай бұрын

@@DavidGTravels Oh well, my bad here. I was watching it fast.

what about Gira drink? It is my favorite - better than Coke.

@DavidGTravels

Ай бұрын

I like it alright

i am lithuanian and i can say its easy to learn english if u are lithuaniaan

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

I wish it was easier to learn Lithuanian for English speakers though 😂

Kaunas most know city in Lithuania because there is Kauno Zalgiris.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Love Kaunas!

I was there 2 years ago as a female solo traveller. Sadly i couldn't experience much of the country because everything was closed and there where no tours available because it was orthodox Easter. I should of done my research before flying to Vilnius. :( I will be back soon though, thanks to cheap Ryanair flights haha.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Really? I’ve been in Lithuania during orthodox holidays and never even noticed at all as it’s just a small minority celebrating them.

@robo1895

3 ай бұрын

We do not close on orthodox easter. You probably mix something. Lithuania is a christian country.

@romadobson2224

3 ай бұрын

Greek orthodox or Russian orthodox?They are Christian too.Lithuania is 80 % catholic.Orthodox Easter is different times.Sometimes they come together.Just google around before you come to Lithuania.

@guido9147

3 ай бұрын

Maybe it was closed off because of quarantine

Iki "means "iki pasimatymo".English: see you later.Short "Iki".See you.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

English synonym: "Bye"

David has chosen the worst season of a year to make this "publicity" for the country. Looking at the puddles and an overcast and rainy sky, you don't want to go there at all. By the way, I am Lithuanian myself. But I do not thank him for showing the country this way.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

This isn't an ad or publicity. I just wanted to show people Lithuania during the winter, which I think can be good time to visit. I'll likely show more of Lithuania during summer in another video down the line.

wait, you guys pay for bread?

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

Not usually, that's just me being... me.

I not need too go too Lithuania becouse im Lithuanian🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

How do you like living in Lithuania?

It's not a hidden gem Ryanair and wizz air have flown there for years

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

Interesting point of view, thanks for commenting. Wizzair and Ryanair have two of the largest route networks in Europe, so it would be surprising if they didn't cover the capital city of any EU country really. Of course the term hidden gem is pretty subjective. But I think based on most interpretations of it, it's a pretty accurate term to apply to Lithuania. And as shown in the video, Lithuania has got a lot of cool stuff to offer that's not well known.

I am from lithuania ne means no😂

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

Welcome to my channel!

Brudda that’s for you cheap not for us 😅😅😅 for us it’s pretty expensive hahah

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

As a frequent visitor to Lithuania, the increase in prices with inflation has really been noticeable. Just to take a tiny example, the surelis price I show in the video is almost one euro - three years ago it was about 40 cents. Thanks for checking out the video!

@PijusONLINE

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidGTravels It's why I think it doesn't make sense to advertise Lithuania as a low-cost destination anymore. Usually it's done exclusively by people who lived in Lithuania in the late 2000s, like the Wolters World guy (who still claims we earn an average of 300 euros a month in 2024 because he lived here 20 years ago). I'm told by acquaintances that food and things like clothes are cheaper in Germany. The world has moved on and most of these past experiences are long past relevant.

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

@@PijusONLINE Fair points for sure, but I'd still consder Lithuania to be a lower-cost destination as far as EU countries go. I find Germany to still be signficantly more expensive than Lithuania for nearly every kind of cost - you could roughly say that the difference in costs between the two countries didn't change that much in the past few years as inflation drove up prices in both countries. I can't really comment about the guy you referred to, but all the prices I share in this video are based on my last trip there this winter. And for sure the minimum salary isn't currently 300 euros a month. Thanks for the comment!

There are NO Baltic States, Only Baltic COUNTRIES. Lithuania was a kingdom once. They were all Ruzzia's Baltic states for a short time. That title is no longer appropriate, and really never was. There are many other countries bordering the Baltic sea which have never been called "states" They are: Denmark, Finland, Germany, , Poland, and Sweden. No need to call any of them "states".

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

Interesting opinion. In English state and country are pretty interchangeable terms and Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonian are commonly referred to as the Baltic states in academic settings.

Very expensive country

@DavidGTravels

Ай бұрын

Really?

@robirobi7300

Ай бұрын

@@DavidGTravels if you go on summer time to palanga, you will see, dinner over 100 e. It's crazy

@DavidGTravels

Ай бұрын

@@robirobi7300 ah okay, Palanga during the summer is really representative of normal prices in Lithuania

Lithuanian language is the oldest in the😊 world not Europe!

@DavidGTravels

3 ай бұрын

It is one of the oldest languages currently spoken in Europe, but not in the world. Euskera (Basque) is likely the oldest currently spoken language in Europe.

not judging but the pronunciations ARGH IT MAKES ME MAD

@DavidGTravels

2 ай бұрын

really?

3:08 ''spirigucchi''? Sounds like Italiano 🤌

@DavidGTravels

4 ай бұрын

There are a few Lithuanian words that always remind of Italian, too, like pomodoras.

@bobthebuzztard

4 ай бұрын

@@DavidGTravels Va bene, amico, ti prendevo solo in giro.🥸

@edvinasmilasius1684

4 ай бұрын

It's actually 'spirguchiai'

@Fanas920

3 ай бұрын

“Spirgučiai” that’s not Gucci, but like gold on top of “Cepelinai”😌😛

@pro_grapist

3 ай бұрын

lmao "spirigucchi" 🤌, even funnier when reading in Italian accent, I'm stealing that. The Lithuanian spelling is "spirgučiai" though and when pronounced correctly it doesn't sound too Italian.