Užupis

29 May 2026

After exploring Vilnius the past three days, I agree with an early 2018 tourism campaign:

Nobody knows where it is, but when you find it, it’s amazing.

I expected to like Vilnius. I’m happy to admit I like it a lot. It is a wonderful mix of historic and modern, funny and tragic, strange and quirky. My kind of town!

Perhaps Vilnius began to all come together for me with the discovery of Frank Zappa.

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