Where old meets new

There are now three airlines offering direct flights from Irish cities to Vilnius. So what’s worth seeing in the Lithuanian capital?

YOU MAY not notice it from day to day, or flight to flight. But the way we travel is changing. Museums, galleries and historic buildings are no longer the beall and end-all of city breaks. More and more, we’re craving experiences over facts and figures.

“Art may be a particularly good medium for distilling and reflecting the characteristics of a nation, but contemplation of it does not give us the vivid and visceral experience of them that we may crave,” as Alain de Botton wrote recently in BA’s Highlife magazine.