Nida, which was as soon as referred to as Nidden, is a magical place, as if standing nonetheless, locked in time and house. The glitter of the solar’s rays dances on the waves, the rustling of the Baltic Sea fills the ears, a mild wind blows between the pines and birches, throughout the sandy soil. And if you happen to’re left untouched by the vastness, vastness, vastness of the white seaside, you in all probability cannot be helped anyway.
One of many hardest borders in Europe runs by means of this northern paradise, by means of the dunes, between the marram grass and thru the shallow water of the lagoon. Right here, like two geopolitical continental plates beneath stress, the territories of NATO and… Russia one another.