Peculiar theme park (via Boing Boing).
Lithuanians are notoriously clever. We British had some old Cold War underground facilities, but sold off the majority for file storage and whatnot, leaving only one as a museum, and that at some remove from the bustling metropolis. For a self-guided tour, it says on the website, £6.50.
In Lithuania, they can evidently persuade people to pay $US 220, or the equivalent thereof, for a 2.5 hour ‘experience’.
I’m not really sure what, if anything, this says about private enterprise, totalitarian jackboots (absence of), the collapse of British industry, sinister Eastern European ‘businessmen’, theme parks in general, whether or not if there is hope it lies in the proles, or the inadvisability of underestimating the bad taste of the great unwashed.
But it must mean something. Mustn’t it? Kaip lietuviškai pasakyti (‘how does one say in Lithuanian’) “Hi, I’m from London; would you like to buy a bridge”?
heya ;)
wow, I read a few articles about that place. Have you had a chance to go there yourself…? Actually, would you like to?
By the way, just a pointer- the entrance fee for a 2.5 hours experience is 120Lt, which is around $US40. I saw quite a few blogs that said the price was $US220/120Lt but it’s a mistake in currency conversion.
Thank you for the correction. I still don’t think I’ll be going.