Tours of Lithuania,
the wooded south.

Baroque Vilnius, a sunrise balloon, the island castle at Trakai, and two slow days on the moving dunes of the Curonian Spit.

All five countries in one grand arc: Kraków, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki, and a Lapland finale under the aurora.

The three Baltic states in one circuit: Vilnius and a balloon, the Curonian dunes, an after-hours palace, Riga, the Gauja, Tallinn and the islands.

The former KGB headquarters in three capitals, Grūtas Park's fallen statues, Karosta's closed naval city, and the Song Festival Grounds where the story ends.

Vilnius, once the Jerusalem of the North, to Kraków's Kazimierz, with a specialist historian throughout. Paneriai, the Ninth Fort, a full half-day at POLIN, and an unhurried day at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Three festive capitals in one week: the Cathedral Square tree in Vilnius, the Riga market where the first Christmas tree is said to have stood, and Tallinn's medieval Town Hall Square, with mulled wine at every stop.

The solstice, kept the old way: white nights in the countryside, a wreath-weaving day, and Jāņi eve in a Latvian manor village, with Līgo songs and a bonfire held until the 4:30 sunrise.

The tall city tree below your hotel windows, a day trip to Trakai's island castle over an ice-rimmed lake, and Kaunas, Lithuania's own second capital with its own Christmas market.

A UNESCO sand-dune peninsula, fishing villages, and amber on the morning tide. Four days at the pace of the wind.

Inside the Ignalina nuclear plant: the RBMK reactor that stood in for Chernobyl on screen. Four days, and one of the most extraordinary industrial visits in Europe.

Eight days down the dunes and the delta under your own power. We book the beds, move the bags and draw the route; you ride it at whatever pace the morning suggests.

Baroque Vilnius, modernist Kaunas, a hill of a hundred thousand crosses and a sand spit in the sea. The whole country in a week, with the car only for the middle of it.

Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn on scheduled trains and coaches, with the seats booked and the luggage moved. Three UNESCO old towns and nothing to park.

Vilnius to Tallinn with your own keys. The car, the hotels, the ferry slots and a route book that knows which turn you will miss.