- So we're now in Kaunas,
the second largest city of Lithuania,
yesterday, we were in Vilnius.
So, we're going to spend the next couple of days
here in Kaunas.
Now, we're going to find the coffee place.
This one, which I loved very much, which is Green Cafe.
We're going to go there, grab a coffee,
and then start the day.
They don't have oat milk,
you want normal milk?
Okay, just 2 flat whites
Unfortunately, they didn`t have oat milk,
but they have almond milk and coconut milk.
And I'm gonna be trying a very traditional
desert in Lithuania called Tinginys.
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This is definitely
one of the best coffee shops in Lithuania.
So, let's enjoy the coffee.
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There's something very interesting here
that I never seen in my life in Lithuania,
and I traveled a lot in Lithuania.
So, it's this here.
It's not Šakotis,
Šakotis is a massive tower that you have for Christmas
or weddings or birthdays or stuff like that.
This has a different name.
The other thing very interesting
about these bakeries and Lithuania in general.
They love Canelé.
They sell Canelé everywhere here.
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I´m gonna cut all this part.
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Started to work in France and then I moved to London.
It´s like a dental floss.
I love this technique.
Perfect. Really good.
Haircut and a nice coffee here.
Kurdish coffee.
- Real local people.
- I mean, look, I have evidence on my head,
this is the evidence.
- And on your t-shirt as well, right?
- Exactly.
I'm all green baby, the only color you can have in this city
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- When we drove here, it was raining cats and dogs
and now so hot.
Sunny, raining, sunny, raining, sunny.
German influence, right?
- [Manvydas] Exactly.
And then also standing next to a museum
for traditional Lithuanian music,
which is also kind of interesting thing to check out.
If you haven't come around.
- How do you pronounce it?
Let me try, let me try it, "Tautinés musikos skyrius".
- Tautinés musikos skyrius
Congratulations. Bravo. I'm very proud.
- Behind me.
I have like postboxes
so, they come here and they freely open.
Do they have a lock or something?
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- Welcome to one of the oldest living houses.
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- You were born and raised in Kaunas.
Exactly
You lived in Vilnius for many years,
have the credentials to say.
What you really think
Vilnius versus Kaunas in general?
- I think what comes to mind, is maybe,
Vilnius is like becoming very much of a Western town
and over there it's a lot of things,
you can find that you can see.
Ah, okay, I've kind of seen it like
in maybe other Westerns cities,
like spread it lively,
a really beautiful snapshot of what you can have
if you take that sort of Eastern Europe
and apply all the Western things to it.
Whereas Kaunas, I guess,
still feel a bit more sort of historical connection
Or things like you know
Pagan related
which are more oriented to our history, for example.
So it gets like a chill vibe.
And if you're here, you know,
to spend a night out in a very more traditional way,
let's say so I would probably recommend Kaunas.
- So, if I understood,
Kaunas is more like a Lithuanian culture and...
Vilnius is slightly more
international, mixed backgrounds.
- Yeah.
- Every year, a cityin Europe´s
chosen to be the European capital of the year.
Meaning showcasing the city.
The history, its culture, the culture of a country as well.
Honestly, it was raining a lot.
It was actually cold.
I put my hoodie on, an hour later, I cannot believe it.
It's so sunny.
But I really feel like in Vilnius.
By the way, I have a video about Vilnius
that you can check.
I think it's this t-shirt
because in Vilnius I wear the same t-shirt.
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į sveikatą! (cheers!)
- į sveikatą! (cheers!)
So, this is a very traditional
Lithuanian and Slavic drink.
- 5 or 6 years ago, I tried this drink for the first time,
but it was not this sort of a dark color.
This looks like Coca-Cola.
It's not Coca-Cola.
- This is the industrial version.
- But when I try it for the first time
was in a restaurant called Bernelių Užeiga.
- Bernelių Užeiga.
I think like a sort of a local cuisine restaurant
and kind like a light brown color
with some dried fruits like, raisins floating.
It was not so pleasant for me
back in the days, that version.
So, I like more industrial version of Gira.
- Oh, that's the thing.
No one really makes at home anymore.
When we go to the shop,
this is kind of the only version you can get.
So even like younger generations, they don't really,
they're not really used to that traditional taste,
which even for you it's strange,
and back in the day, back in Soviet times,
we used to have these street vendors,
and you can just go there and have like,
a big bottle that you can take it back home,
or you can have like a little paper cup and glass
that you can drink straight away,
and this is I remember what people used to do.
Duh, Okay, well it's three of us eating.
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Have to be so Šaltibarščiai.
Otherwise known to the rest of the world as a Pink Soup.
- This Šaltibarščiai is super, super pinky,
because it's all about beetroots, kefir,
some dill on top with potatoes.
And Kristina?
- I love Kugelis, potato pancakes,
Capelinai, vegetarian ones.
- My favorite is Kibinai,
it´s a version of empanada.
- So, you love it because it reminds you home.
- It reminds me home.
It reminds me Argentina.
The way they do it is very dry, so, they need the soup.
In Argentina is very juicy,
so, you don't have it with soup.
So, Kibinai is my favourite one
and typically Trakai is the traditional place to have it.
- It is more like a stock, not really a soup per se
We have the pigeon as well who wants to share...
- "Knygų namelis" it means book house.
Anyone can open it.
- Good way of reading more and more
and also sharing with other people.
Saying goodbye in Lithuania now.
So, Goodbye!
See you next time!
All the best!
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and see you next week.
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- Obviously if anyone's into basketball, we have the best
arena in the Baltic states
- Isn´t it the capital of Žalgiris, right?
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- Can we say,
Kaunas is the capital of basketball in Lithuania?
- I would say so.