I climbed the tower at Vilnius University. The views from up there were nice.
According to Lithuanian tradition, when couples get married, they cross five bridges in the city together, put their names on a lock, and then fasten the lock to a bridge. I found variations on this theme throughout the Baltic states and Eastern Europe.
My host told me an old anti-Russian joke from Lithuania, one that would have been too dangerous to tell openly even 20 years ago when Lithuania was part of the USSR:
Three men are chatting in a bar, one from France, Italy, and Russia.
The man from France says: "When I hold my wife around the waist with my hand, my fingers touch together - not because my hands are so big, but because my wife is so slim."
The man from Italy says: "When my wife rides a horse, her feet touch the ground - not because my horse is so short, but because my wife's legs are so long."
The man from Russia says: "When I slap my wife on her ass, by the time I return home from work her ass is still jiggling - not because my wife is so fat, but because my workday is so short."
Location:Lithuania
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