Travelling from the Sofa

We are both fans of popular science, history and travel TV channels. When you really don't feel like doing anything on a weekday evening, channels like National Geographic, Viasat History, Animal Planet, Discovery Travel & Living and also Моя планета are top picks. The last one caught our attention with the documentary series „Охота к перемене мест. Прибалтика.", where a five-person team travels by trailer through the coastal regions of the three Baltic states - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - and talks about places worth visiting. Although all the places mentioned are somewhat familiar, it's interesting to see how a traveller from, say, Russia views them from the outside. You also pick up some fascinating facts - for instance, about wolf forest night therapy in Lithuania, about collectors of useful and not-so-useful things in Sabile, Latvia, and about Forest Brothers' bunkers in Estonia.

The journey runs from Königsberg (the former capital of East Prussia), now Kaliningrad (a Russian exclave), through the Baltic states. As the presenter Mikhail Kozhukhov (Михаил Кожухов) often emphasises - a trip from Russia to Russia. And since almost everything is viewable online these days, below we've gathered a collection where you can watch this documentary series yourself.

Russia. Kaliningrad.

Lithuania. Curonian Spit.

Lithuania. Nida.

Lithuania. Palanga.

Lithuania (Trakai, Vilnius) – Latvia (Liepāja).

Latvia. Liepāja.

Latvia (Kuldīga, Sabile).

Latvia (Riga, Lāči Bakery, Munchhausen Manor).

 Latvia (Riga Black Balsam).

Estonia. Tartu.

Estonia. Tallinn.

Estonia. (On the way to Narva).