Lithuania with kids: Vilnius, Dubingiai, the treetop walk in Anykščiai, the Hill of Crosses and Kaunas. Posts from our 2026 campervan trip with two dogs.
Six people, two dogs and an app that sells one ticket at a time. In Kaunas we walked around the castle and the Old Town, crossed the Nemunas and rode a historic funicular up to a viewpoint.
A quick stop off the Via Baltica to stretch our legs. All around: tens of thousands of crosses, wooden steps and the story of a hill the Soviets bulldozed several times, only for the crosses to keep coming back.
Three hundred metres of walkway between the tree trunks, a tower with binoculars over the bends of the Šventoji, and girls joking that the trees blocked the view. Meanwhile dad minded the dogs down below.
A wooden bridge from 1934, a swing under a birch tree on the Radziwiłł castle hill and a campsite on an island full of apple trees, where we didn't move the van for a whole day.
A bus from the campsite, then the whole Old Town on foot: the Gate of Dawn, the Užupis constitution that gives a dog the right to be a dog, cepelinai for lunch and two thousand stucco figures in a Baroque church.
Fifteen days in our van through all three Baltic states, with four daughters and two golden retrievers. Canoeing the Gauja with the dogs, Estonian bogs, a thunderstorm in Riga and bus tickets for six in Kaunas. The whole route, day by day.
