I've been hunting through the touristy souvenier kiosks to find the most "Linglish" (Litguish?) shirt or trinket possible. I haven't found many. I had hopes of finding fun shirts from various bars or restaurants with funny logos and interesting combinations of either English or Lithuanian words, but nothing yet. Since Lithuania is a relatively new country, only 20 years old or so, there probably aren't enough tourists to really inspire crazy slogans and weird Lithuanian-English hybrid language shirts just yet. So far, all I've seen is "I AM BASKETBALL FAN," which is okay, but not wonderful. Apparently, Lithuania has a really great basketball team. Who knew!

I have seen these neat instances of graffiti around Vilnius and the surrounding areas, though:

This one comes from near the Old Town gates.

Near the University.

Also near the university; an amazingly crumbled building.

 

In Uzupis.

Bernardinu Gatve, Old Town.

In Ziezmariai, the town with the dilapadated synagogue.

This one is pretty amazing and horrible. It's amazing that it's survived since 1939. It's hard to read, but it's a few lines in Polish written on the walls of the wooden synagogue in Ziezmairai. It was supposedly written when the Jewish Ziezmairi residents were rounded up and held in the synagogue, later to be taken elsewhere and killed. One of our group members is Polish, and she translated this for us. It was basically a curse: that there are terrible things in store for Lithuania, that the pain they caused will come back to haunt them.