Vilnius mayor Artūras Zuokas, who is probably best known in the West for driving a tank over a car parked in a bike lane, has consistently put transport at the head of his vision of Vilnius. His first term as mayor featured an effort at introducing a bike-share system (they were all stolen), and his [...]
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So I live in Vilnius now. Specifically, I live at the base of the north face of Tauro kalnas, which translates to something like “Auroch’s Hill,” on Pamėnkalnio gatvė, which is so named because, apparently, at some point Tauro kalnas was called Pamėnkalnis. The name of the hill sounds old and maybe even mythological—the auroch [...]
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Aras recently wrote about his “month” of “not” eating meat and added a few questions throughout that I suppose were rhetorical. Well, for the next thousand words or so, I’ll pretend they’re not. At the outset he claims to have gone “all out” with not eating meat, like me. I would hardly consider myself “all [...]
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This might get a bit weepy or whiny in places, but I promise there’s a bigger point to it. I’m writing this post from Café de Paris, which is more or less exactly what it sounds like, except that it’s in Vilnius. I’ve spent a lot of time here over the two months I’ve been [...]
A friend of mine recently published a novel, Finding the Moon in Sugar, which one can buy on Amazon. I already wrote a pretty extensive “review” of sorts of it for Lithchat, but I think it might be interesting to the population of Donkey Hottie readers who don’t check out the other site. In brief, [...]