2025 in Lithuania
(land #39) visiting a Soviet nuclear weapons site
2025-06-20 23:59 // updated 2026-03-05 21:09
the Norwegian Dawn ship stopped at the port of Klaipėda, Lithuania on June 20:
took a "bus excursion" about 2 hours northeast of Klaipėda to:
- Plateliai lake
- Plokštine missile base
- a former Soviet nuclear weapons site
- located within the Cold War Museum
this trip-within-a-trip also had a Lithuanian midday meal with
- cold, pink beet soup (šaltbarščiai)
- potato dumplings (cepalinai)
- Lithuanian beer (Šyvturys)
did not have too much time in Klaipėda but might look into the town another time
trip markers
- 39th "country"
- 28th "European country"
- 26th "continental European country"
- last (3rd) Baltic country
- 1st time in Lithuania