• Long Time Ago Lithuanians in England have lost a legendary homestead

    Long Time Ago Lithuanians in England have lost a legendary homestead

    A Lithuanian community homestead established 60 years ago by Lithuanian expatriates in Headley Park near London – a plot of land with a hotel and a lake – has now been taken over for debt and closed. The farmhouse, valued at around several million pounds, will be sold. A Lithuanian homestead in Headley Park, near…

  • Chinese build a ‘ghost town’ in Malaysia for $100 billion, expecting perhaps a million inhabitants

    Chinese build a ‘ghost town’ in Malaysia for $100 billion, expecting perhaps a million inhabitants

    “I didn’t care about my bail, I didn’t care about the money. I just had to leave”, he said. China’s largest real estate developer, Country Garden, unveiled Forest City, a $100 billion mega project in 2016. At the time, China’s real estate boom was in full swing. Developers were borrowing huge sums of money to…

  • Roast pig’s head

    Roast pig’s head

    Yes, it’s one of those dishes that makes guests freeze up and look around for the exit, but once they’ve tasted it, it’s hard to stop. We go to the market, find a little lady from the village and buy half a pig’s head, about 3kg, from her. They come with and without ears, and…

  • Margaret Atwood CERTIFICATES

    Margaret Atwood CERTIFICATES

    ALKONAS certific To die or not to die is not a choice, but how and when – I can. Isn’t that a kind of freedom? I think everybody has been clear about this book for a long time, so I will just write down the questions that came up for me as I was reading…

  • THE MAN WHO KNEW THE LANGUAGE OF SNAKES

    THE MAN WHO KNEW THE LANGUAGE OF SNAKES

    At first, reading it seems like a fairy tale. Ancient pagan Estonians, forests, wolves, the Northern Dragon, snakes, incantations, aliens who bring a new faith and views. What you have to pay dearly for is to move to the countryside, work hard to grow bread and forget about the language of snakes. And it’s all…

  • Kristin Williams DANIEL DALBA & other stories

    Kristin Williams DANIEL DALBA & other stories

    I read the last (and first) time nine years ago. How time passes, bringing experiences and impressions, expanding horizons, changing. Maybe it’s wrinkles on the face, but maybe it’s deeper slices in the brain. Time alone does not make it wiser in itself, but travel, the people met, the events, the books read, the good…

  • Smile, because we were separated by a plain

    Smile, because we were separated by a plain

    ….and I was angry, I blamed You, for a lot of things. Oh, in the end, You treated me only as I allowed Thee to do. You showed me where all my clothes were placed and one last time you repeated that no one had ever held me here. And I just sat quietly and…

  • Credits for those working abroad

    Credits for those working abroad

    It’s no secret that a large percentage of people have emigrated these days. The problem of emigration in Lithuania is very big and obvious. The authorities are trying to reduce the scale of emigration, but they do not always succeed in this. Be that as it may, every year more and more compatriots of our…

  • Marcel Proust in THE SHADOW OF BLOOMING GIRLS

    Marcel Proust in THE SHADOW OF BLOOMING GIRLS

    I find the title of the cycle “In Search of Lost Time” very nice to me. The title of this book is also very beautiful. Maybe that’s why I chose to read. But definitely not – because the first part was not in the library. When I found out that I could kiss the girls…

  • Time-limited eating

    Time-limited eating

    I have written about the health benefits of fasting in the past, and you can read about it more broadly here. There is also such an intermittent fasting/fasting (intermittent fasting) in which a very low calorie content is eaten a couple of days a week (about 500-600kcal per day at a rate of about 2000kcal for…