Smoked fish in Nida.

One warm August evening I stood looking out over the Baltic Sea. I stood at the pier in the seaside resort of Palanga from where I caught the above motif through my camera lens. I thought of Palanga’s two great sons, Count Tiškevičius and Mayor Šliupas, who also certainly often were looking out to the endless waves rolling towards the white sandy beaches of Lithuania’s fantastic sea coast. I felt pleased that the summer in Lithuania this year had been pretty good and warm; the summer climate here is in fact normally very good.   

And I thought that maybe the summer of 2011 will be remembered as a turning point - that perhaps now again better times are coming for Lithuania and the Lithuanian people.  

I wish you, dear readers, a warm and successful autumn! 

Aage Myhre, Editor-in-chief
aage.myhre@Vilnews.com