The Offending Map

Now, what did we do with Kaliningrad?

I have to admit that according to the map we published in our latest guides it does rather look as though the enclave that was once Königsberg has been flooded.

Something which many - though not us of course - would say greatly improves the place.

Kaliningrad... Gone...

Oh dear. It appears we have caused something of an international incident...

We've lost Kaliningrad.

According to the Russian media, which has been bombarding us with phone calls this past week, those cheeky Lithuanians (that would be us) have finally gone and done what they always wanted to: wiped Kaliningrad off the map. That being our, In Your Pocket map as it appears in our print guides (download the latest Vilnius issue here to take a look).

Indeed, it does appear that our graphics team was a little over zealous in the 'delete bits of Russia' department, but given that several hundred islands off the coast of Croatia are also missing, as are some bits of the UK, not to mention a couple of German islands and a large portion of Albania we do not have room for... we think our Russian neighbours are over reacting.

Now, if we had shown Kaliningrad as part of Lithuania... that would have been a story.

Maybe we will do that in the next issue. Or maybe we will just put Kaliningrad back.

Until then you can be certain that we will be avoiding sushi.