🇱🇹 OUR FIRST EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS MARKET (Vilnius, Lithuania)

[@JordanandEmily]

Is this the best tree in Europe!?

[@minilietuvis_]

We as lithuanians we call the Villnius tree a cake.

[@domantisbinkis4738]

As a lithuanian, I don't think it is, even Kaunas' tree is better in my opinion.

[@1minlithuanian170]

The best tree in my opinion is "Stelmužės ąžuolas". It is a magnificent tree with a very old history. You should really visit it. The video about Stelmužės ąžuolas would be a blast.

[@mariusbasys1534]

No of course

[@MrDusktunx]

@@1minlithuanian170 no it wouldnt... that tree is so dead.. waste of time, trust me. its just old dead tree.. on top of that its so far away from everyting cool u can see in lithuania, total waste of time. Taip as lietuvis, medis mires.

[@taurys.laurinaitis]

Tears came to my eyes, I am so touched by your film and that you liked Vilnius. Thank you! Ačiū!

[@JordanandEmily]

We honestly had such an amazing time in Vilnius - can’t wait to come back and explore more of Lithuania one day ❤️

[@Karolinute1]

Vilnius is a treasure! I wish I could be there! Glad you found mittens! Remember to say aciu.....you will get a smile everytime!

[@JordanandEmily]

We fell in love with it and Lithuania! Such a quick but amazing trip ❤️

[@doctormom3698]

Вильнюс сокровище? Уха-ха....чел ты просто не видел нормальных городов. Вот например, не благодари.....kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIrZlYqVqL-AnMU

[@Karolinute1]

@@doctormom3698 Vilnius is still very beautiful! Many cultural landmarks were destroyed during the Russian Empire and Soviet occupation. The city spent less money this year on decorations and sent the rest to Ukraine to help civilians in the war. Thank you for the clip!

[@vygis1979]

@@doctormom3698 да некому неинтересна твоя москва

[@drTadux]

@@doctormom3698 moscow... bloody hole for vomiting

[@exlibrisas]

I can't imagine how you guys in Australia celebrate Christmas without snow, mittens, cold, darkness and coziness.

[@JordanandEmily]

😂😂 it is total opposites! We spend the day by the pool or beach, having water fights and eating seafood 😅

[@juliannedean537]

This is definitely my all time favourite. How pretty was that market and not over crowded. I loved the Christmas tree and all the twinkling lights and decorations. I can’t wait for more Christmas market video’s.xx

[@crabLT]

Christmas is a still a bit over a week away, the closer it gets, the more people tend to be in these markets.

[@JordanandEmily]

We got really lucky with the timing!! - It definitely gets busier the closer we get to Christmas!

[@1986Guetta]

Lovely, Vilnius is so amazing city/capital, I been there at end of July only good memories 😉 and also love positivity from this video 😉

[@JordanandEmily]

Thank you! ☺️ it is such an amazing country - we had such a great time!

[@hayleyrichardson9203]

OMG, I feel so warm and toasty just watching this. I've never had mulled wine but I've had mulled cider which was amazing. I love that the market wasn't completely overrun with crowds.

[@JordanandEmily]

LOVE mulled cider. Mulled wine is cool because everyone seems to do it a little bit differently, you'll see in the other cities the name changes and ingredients are different! still amazing though!

[@blueeyedbaer]

They were at the market too early. I was there one day after the boxing day and omg there were so many people there.

[@MyWalks]

I recently came back from Vilnius and I was walking there ;)

[@JordanandEmily]

How good is it!? Vilnius really surprised us by how awesome the city and people were!

[@MyWalks]

@@JordanandEmily I was born in Vilnius. I like nature more than buildings or other attractions. The food is quite tasty too.

[@julieeggleton9743]

Never wanted to go to a Christmas Market until now. Emily I have mitten envy! They are beautiful.

[@JordanandEmily]

It is such a festive, happy time! Feel like everyone is in such good spirits ☺️ I honestly LOVE the mittens - they made me smile everyday wearing them 🤣

[@a.m.2271]

What a lovely video:) Glad you like Vilnius on Christmas :) here christmas decorations on every corner. it's like a little competition, which ones house will have more decorations :D

[@JordanandEmily]

Thank you so much! It was such a great first Christmas market experience 🎄😍 Haha love that! It makes walking through the city feel so magical

[@Inga-zl3ei]

So beautiful moments and warming, make a smile in heart when in your video you show moments with birds, trees berry ... It's cool & cute

[@JordanandEmily]

we had such a great night here for our first Christmas market experience! so fun!

[@thegallivanthropologists]

Hi guys. Love the idea of a Christmas Market series. We might have to borrow this in 2025 when we are in the area on our drive around the World. For now, We are excited to be planning an April trip to the Balkans and Vilnius is 3-4 days of the trip. Thank you for the inspiration. Cheers to 2023 being amazing for both of our channels. Hope to see you out there. - Turtle and Bear

[@JordanandEmily]

2025?! You must be great planners to be that organised 🤣 we don’t even have accom for tomorrow night! Driving around the world? That’s incredible! Bring on a great 2023! 😊❤️

[@n1ghtofthedead411]

Haha, you guys are adorable! Great video, thank you!

[@JordanandEmily]

Glad you enjoyed it - we had such a great time in Lithuania! ☺️

[@ganjaaboss]

Glad you liked my home town:) good luck!

[@JordanandEmily]

We loved it - thank you so much! Already hope to come back one day because it ended up being one of our favourite places 🥰

[@HimashaSewwandi-f3c]

this Christmas vibe makes my heart melt. Love this video❤

[@JordanandEmily]

agreed! Best time of year in my books 🎄

[@anyerreyna235]

I am even more proud of my city when such cheerful and positive people smile while being there. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :)

[@JordanandEmily]

Thank you so much! Happy new year 🥳

[@DavidandSarah]

so fun! we can't wait to visit some christmas markets in Canada 😍

[@JordanandEmily]

Can't wait to see your videos about them!

[@enricovids]

I'm glad you finally got to try a FRESH stroopwafel. I've started going xmas market hopping in europe over the past two years and have been to Paris, Strasbourg, Colmar, Basel, Mainz, Frankfurt, Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Nuremberg, Stuttgart. Highly recommend the ones in Germany and Austria. Colmar was great but kind of hard to get to. I'm not even as big a xmas fan as you so I'm sure you'd enjoy. Also, no shame getting mittens. I have a flip mitten glove so sort of the best of both words. Here's a tip, stuff a heat pack inside and your fingers will be warm all night!

[@JordanandEmily]

Ooohhh good idea with the heat pack! We had other friends do the markets in Germany and they looked incredible! So much so that we are currently trying to work out how we can get there this Christmas 😄

[@enricovids]

@@JordanandEmily Another tip, you can stick heat packs in your shoes too to keep your toes warm. They make special ones for the shoe because they react to air and there is less air exposure in the shoes, but I've used the regular ones and they worked fine. If you still have holes in your shoes, I would think they would work great 😜. If I recall some of those xmas market cities weren't cheap, even the small ones. I try to go in early December hoping for better weather, less people and prob lower prices. Not sure if it made any difference. I'll probably go again this year, just not sure where yet.

[@JordanandEmily]

Your 100% right, we skipped of Germany entirely because it was too expensive for us 😄 so it's definitely still a dream at this stage but never say never! I actually went back to some old shoes (because of our budget) which have less holes 😄

[@suayhughes8103]

Great video!

[@JordanandEmily]

Thanks Suay! ☺️

[@shelleyjubb]

You guys need those little hand warmers you put in your pockets they last a few hours after you c]shake them to activate them. Not sure where you get them there but you would think they would be at like pharmacies or something.

[@JordanandEmily]

That is such a great idea! ☺️ Thank you!

[@pankajsharks4337]

Nice video 📹 👍

[@JordanandEmily]

Thank you! ☺️

[@xenamorphwinner7931]

It’s a foundation of the city celebration and it’s not the date when Vilnius was founded, but a when the letters of Gediminas reached Europe. There is a lot a history in this and a legend, so look it up or I will crash my PC.

[@JordanandEmily]

Haha 😄 that's a lot of history

[@dd-oe8zv]

haha you're kinda lucky cause it seems you missed the massive amounts of snow just by few weeks. It was hard to walk the streets and heard some flights were canceled

[@JordanandEmily]

Woah! we got a lot of snow in later countries but it never got too much for us, we loved it! Would have been pretty frustrating to have flights cancelled though haha

[@kevinw143]

Always wanted to try hot mulled wine, it's not too popular in the states. P.S. - There's no way this hasn't been brought to Jordan's attention before - but he could be a stunt double for actor Nicholas Hoult.

[@JordanandEmily]

Almost worth getting a recipe and making a batch of your own! such a good Christmas drink 🤣 This is the first he's been told that but we once had someone say he looks like Sebastian Stan in a tiktok. 😆 which went straight to his head!

[@JordanandEmily]

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[@Kefyraskurisvalgovaikus]

I’m Glad that you liked my country 😁🇱🇹 I hope you had fun in our capital city Vilnius 😃

[@JordanandEmily]

we really did! Already hope to come back one day and explore more ☺️

[@sweepedge5590]

MR BEAAASSTT

[@deguonisreikalingas]

Sorry man. It's not your country. 1st you are just living in Lithuania.

[@mattsadveyt]

I live there! Gosh how much snow was melted after new years

[@JordanandEmily]

oh really?! Hope you had a lovely new years! ☺️

[@przewoz83]

ok, so you should check also some other Christmax Markets in Poland (Wrocław, Kraków), Czech Rep (Praha) and maybe in Germany then :)

[@JordanandEmily]

ooh we would have LOVED to check these out as well (maybe next year if we are lucky!) we also originally were hoping to explore Zakopane in Poland as well!

[@krubzbubz]

Everyone is saying: "The Vilnius Christmas Tree looks bad", "The Kaunas one is better" so on and so on, but I actually kinda like it.

[@JordanandEmily]

Had to google it - they are both awesome to be fair! 😍 although I feel like I would enjoy any Christmas tree 😂😂

[@DomasHQ]

at 4:32 if I remember correctly, I think you've just passed besides Niels Peter Pretzmann, the owner of this place - "Senators Passage" :DDD

[@JordanandEmily]

wow - good eye!

[@andriuscybas7]

Lithuania is amazing country 🇱🇹❤️

[@JordanandEmily]

100% already planning a return trip in a few years!

[@CaptainDonut0]

If you like it that much, come back for the 700th birthday. The celebration is going to be out of this Millennia. (a fact to blow your mind, the Lithuanian language was first spoken in the Baltic region 100 B.C.)

[@JordanandEmily]

It would be so fun to be in town for the celebrations! WOW - that's crazy!!

[@CaptainDonut0]

@@JordanandEmily since you replied, here is something interesting. In 2009, we celebrated or country's 1000 anniversary. In 1009 A.D. Lithuania was first mentioned in foreign texts.

[@blueeyedbaer]

No it wasn't. Lithuanian language has split from Latvian language at around 7th century C.E. Before that it was one language so there was no Lithuanian language at 100 B.C, it was some sort of protolanguage.

[@Ida-fz3ir]

in german You call your handgloves 'Fäustlinge'.. (faust) in opposite to 'Fingerlinge'...(finger)

[@JordanandEmily]

'fingerlinge' has a nice ring to it 😆

[@EdgarasBaranauskas-g5g]

You know Christmas close once again…

[@JordanandEmily]

Don't tempt us! Haha we are dying to get back to Europe for another white Christmas!

[@oksanastrelcova7001]

Say history of the three crosses of vilnius thanks

[@JordanandEmily]

What is this history!?

[@irinaarendarchuk1834]

Where are you from?

[@JordanandEmily]

We're from South Australia :)

[@UtamagUta]

Last year around same time i travelled to Estonia. -17C. Our lame winter boots and pair of jeans were laughable at best. Get warm clothes asap!!

[@JordanandEmily]

omg. -17 is insanity. We got down to -8 the other day and our bodies almost couldn't comprehend it 🤣

[@arturasr7901]

Love Lithuania

[@JordanandEmily]

Us too! We can't wait to get back there!

[@urfavrusne]

the thing is that vlinius tree isnt that pretty compared to us, lithuanians but me myself think its memorable bc of vilnius 700 bday

[@JordanandEmily]

agreed! I think what makes it special is the story/reason behind it!

[@dougmaclean9752]

wait , wait - what about the shoes ?

[@JordanandEmily]

It's a little embarrassing but Since money is tight our solution was. Sock, Sock, Plastic bag, Sock, Shoe. Not great, but it did the trick 🤣

[@estherpark511]

wheres the second market :((((

[@JordanandEmily]

Second!?

[@austejakelyte7689]

I live in Lithuania

[@JordanandEmily]

amazing! we hope to come back and explore more one day ❤️

[@vytautaszemelis4403]

Thanks 🇱🇹🤗

[@JordanandEmily]

Thank you! ❤️

[@Ugapiku]

Would be the best 100% if it didn't f-in cost so muuuuch!

[@JordanandEmily]

we have heard! 😱

[@tavo_tevas]

Vilnius christmas tree is gorgeos (idk how to spell it) but we had to pay 231k 😑

[@JordanandEmily]

😱 no way!! I didn't realise it was THAT expensive 🤯

[@gintarasskuzinskas6967]

⛄⛄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@JordanandEmily]

Thanks for watching and commenting on both! :) It really helps us with the algorithm!

[@TheValerijus61]

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[@JordanandEmily]

❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊👋👋👋

[@austejakelyte7689]

As gyvenu Lietuvoje

[@JordanandEmily]

where else should we explore when we come back? ☺️

[@domantisbinkis4738]

@@JordanandEmily Anykščiai, really beautiful city

[@imin2]

04:32 Danish dude on the right who makes business and lives in Lithuania?

[@JordanandEmily]

is it? we didn't meet the man - just walked past ☺️

[@user-si2bm9ic6h]

Honestly, as a German I have to say that the Christmas market in Vilnius disappoint me a bit. It is so small and the atmosphere is not the same as the one in Germany.

[@JordanandEmily]

We've seen videos from some German ones that look insane! We think vilnius was a hreat place to start for us, they only get better from here 😀

[@windsfriend]

It is quite small, but it's in 3 spots to avoid crowds - this was done during Covid. Also they're visiting at 4pm on a workday, so most people are still at work. During weekends half of this square is filled with people and there's queues in the market. Pre-covid the market was in a circle around the tree 🎄 with fairy lights above, and that felt magical.

[@leslee_fw]

Well I figure since your feet were not the coldest thing that you must have found new shoes

[@JordanandEmily]

unfortunately not! I (Emily) wear three or four pairs of socks and that helps a little 🤣🤣

[@kevinw143]

I was going to ask the same thing - You both need to pick up some shoes ASAP! 😄

[@michaelwesten4624]

[ starts pointing at the screen ] I've seen this before, with my own eyes. It's weird looking at it from a video by other people

[@JordanandEmily]

I bet! we've watched someone do a video of our home town in Adelaide and it was super weird!

[@equipmentbusinessidea9194]

Bangladesh

[@JordanandEmily]

🙃

[@valodbka8472]

Viskas labai daug kainoja,ne pagal musu kišene.

[@JordanandEmily]

It was a lot for us! we've got a pretty small budget per day!

[@Courspe]

im from lithuania but i think its the worst tree in europe, it looks like a cake and alot of lithuanians dont like it

[@JordanandEmily]

I completely get this - because it’s super NOT traditional (who doesn’t love a classic red gold and green tree!) but we loved the creativity and reason behind it!

[@pagamintalietuvoje]

I'm from Lithuania and we really disappointed of Vilnius Christmas tree, probably most expensive in Europe and the shape remind the cake, really weird and overpriced Christmas tree

[@JordanandEmily]

oh really?! we loved it 😅

[@9111login]

Biggest cake in Europe. But not Christmas 🎄...

[@JordanandEmily]

or is it both? 🤣🎄🎂

[@9111login]

@@JordanandEmily I just looked at it and first thing what I see is Cake 🎂😂 Christmas is all around but not on Cake. But Great idea. ✌️

[@termitedome]

Try paupys ,if you still around in Vilnius

[@JordanandEmily]

What's that!? tried to google it but couldn't see anything 🤣

[@betjura]

@@JordanandEmily it’s a newer, really nice and small district next to Užupis, it has a really cool indoor food market/hall

[@PonasBartkus]

Terrible Christmas tree

[@JordanandEmily]

I'm sure yours is better!

[@windsfriend]

@@JordanandEmily His name is Lithuanian, so it might be his tree. But as a true troll, he loves to be negative about every and always.

[@aurimasurbonas6981]

Lithuania is not europe

[@JordanandEmily]

what continent is it on?

[@AlgirdasGurevicius]

@@JordanandEmily Ignore him, unfortunately we also got trolls 😔 Lithuania is not only in Europe, but it is also right in the center of it. We have a monument for it about 20km from Vilnius 😀 Thank you for a nice coverage of our city and enjoy the rest of your travels 😀 Happy new year!

[@WNordic]

Yes, but most of Lithuania's territory is geographically located in Northern Europe 🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇮🇸​@@AlgirdasGurevicius