I am a member of Post Crossing, the internet project which allows people to exchange postcards: you send a postcard and you receive it back from a random postcrosser. After one year I came up with an amazing idea that the back of the postcard might be not less interesting than a picture on it. I thought it would be interesting to ask people to write anything they know about Lithuania or Lithuanians, to collect all these comments on one blog and to creat from them kind of e-puzzle of my native country.


Monday, July 25, 2011

Hope Dies Last

This postcard from Switzerland brought very sad message:

Leider kenne ich dein Heimatland zu wenig, um darüber schreiben zu können. 
Tut mir leid!


Is Lithuania really too tiny on European map? I am not giving up and looking forward to the next postcard... Perhaps it is yours...

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Viva Latvia!

From Lansing, Michigan:

I haven't heard anything about Latvians, honestly. I assume they're mostly good people.


I am sure my Latvians friends would be very pleased by this response, but what about Lithuanians??? ;)
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Location: Lansing, MI, USA

Friday, July 15, 2011

Where is the geographical centre of Europe?


Here we go! Thank you, Rowan! A beautiful postcard from Great Britain showing Tower Bridge under construction in 1892 and the back of this card:

I don't know so much about Lithuania. I think I once read that it is the geographical centre of Europe - is this true? A friend told me you have beautiful forests.


 Talking about the geographical heart of Europe there are many countries (Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus etc.) claiming to have it on their teritory, but Lithuania seems to have the strongest claim confirmed by the French National Geographical Institut.
In added video you can see beautiful Lithuanian forests, best wishes to your friend!
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Any surprise is welcome

I can't wait for the first postcard matching to my blog. 
What do you know about Lithuania or Lithuanians? 
Spontaneosly. Without googling it. Without asking your friends. And please - no cheating.
If you don't know anything at all, if you have never heard that name, it is ok. It is also kind of message.

In the meantime - a short story from my own experience. In Rome, in the class of Italian language, I met one Chinese guy. It was almost 10 years ago and at that time I had a habbit that most of the foreigners didn't know that much about my country (''-Lithuania? Where it is?''). And what a surprise - that guy was so interested in Lithuania, in its history and especially ... in Samogitian horse breed, he couldn't stop talking about it. Wow! That was a real surprise. Worth to remember even after so many years.

Looking forward to a new suprise!

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