2025 in Lithuania
39th country - visiting a Soviet nuclear weapons site
2025-06-20 23:59 // updated 2025-08-12 16:22
On June 20, 2025, the Norwegian Dawn cruise stopped at the port of Klaipėda, Lithuania. This made it my:
- 39th country
- 1st time in Lithuania
- last (3rd) Baltic country
I didn't visit much of the port city. Instead, I took a cruise-sponsored excursion to Plokštine missile base (about 2 hours northeast of Klaipėda), a former Soviet nuclear weapons site (as the cruise line advertised!) located in the open-air Cold War Museum.
The excursion also provided a Lithuanian lunch with cold pink beet soup (šaltbarščiai) and potato dumplings (cepalinai), alongside some local Šyvturys beer!