That green spit on the horizon is in the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad Oblast.
This is on a large sand dune just south of Nida, a little resort town, the last Lithuanian town before the frontier.
It turns out that the visa situation for Russia is difficult. Roughly $150 a person, and you have to get an "invitation" to come. It didn't seem worth it to us.
I don't even know what this activity is called--a cross between surfing and para-sailing. Para-surfing?
A well-tended graveyard, with Lithuanian Catholic and Russian Orthodox graves, with some old wooden grave markers, too.
This is a Russian Orthodox grave.
The traditional wooden markers.
Ron B., the symbol at the top is the equivalent of Rest in Peace.
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